MMM-google-route Example ?

Valkilane

This is what i’ve done to get it up and running:

active the google api’s: (sign-up, follow the path mentioned in the short description provided by the module)

activated APIs:

Directions API (if I disable it nothing works anymore)
Geocoding API
Maps JavaScript API

then add this to your config.js:

{
            module: 'MMM-google-route',
            position: 'bottom_left',
            config: {
                height: '150px',
                width: '300px',
                key: 'your-google-apikey',
                directionsRequest:{
                    origin: 'city country',
                    destination: 'city country'
                }
            }
        },

Hope this works, did for me!

bleusswissbless

it was so simple ! :D
i tried with “Address city country” for both origin and destination field… it works !! I think manual could be more precise on this point. Thank you very much @Valkilane

FruityBebbles

@Valkilane Hi, I know this is a bit old but what if you wanted to be more specific because the origin and the destination are both located in the same city…
Im trying to use my address as the origin and a well known hospital in the city as the destination…

my config is

module: "MMM-google-route",
	position: "top_left",
	config: {
		key: "google api-key",
		directionsRequest:{
		origin: "address, city, country",
		destination: "lat", "lng", // can't figure out...
		height: "400px",//default=300px
		width: "400px",//default=300px
		avoidTolls: true,
		showAge: false,
		fontSize: "80%",
			}
		}
	},

Do you know what order I have to put the coordinations in, so i can get this to work?

sdetweil

@FruityBebbles looks like the doc for the module references a google doc with says

directionsRequest	Required The directions to show on the map.
Type: google.maps.DirectionsRequest interface

direction request link takes you here

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference/directions#DirectionsRequest

which says LatLng or LatLngLiteral
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference/coordinates#LatLngLiteral

which both show as this

{lat: -34, lng: 151}

so

module: "MMM-google-route",
	position: "top_left",
	config: {
		key: "google api-key",
		directionsRequest:{
		origin: "address, city, country",
		destination: {"lat": number, "lng":number}, // can't figure out...
		height: "400px",//default=300px
		width: "400px",//default=300px
		avoidTolls: true,
		showAge: false,
		fontSize: "80%",
			}
		}
	},

FruityBebbles

@sdetweil Thankyou for laying it out for me! I was trying to put

 destination: [lat: number,  lng: number]

instead of

destination: {"lat": number,  "lng": number},

I didn’t know to add the “” or the {}

now, my config looks like:

module: "MMM-google-route",
	position: "top_left",
	config: {
		key: "google api-key",
		directionsRequest:{
		origin: "address, city, country",
		destination: {"lat": number, "lng": number},
		height: "400px",//default=300px
		width: "400px",//default=300px
		avoidTolls: true,
		showAge: false,
		fontSize: "80%",
			}
           }
},

I am getting a 400px by 400px box showing up in the “top_left” of my mirror, but now it’s all white with no map being shown…

sdetweil

@FruityBebbles said in MMM-google-route Example ?:

origin: “address, city, country”,

you of course set a good start point (origin) with the real location, right?

a good lat/lng near me is { “lat”: 31.4490047,“lng”:-98.6031736}

FruityBebbles

yes… I should have said that my origin is the lat/lng

origin: {"lat": , "lng": }

and my destination is the

address, city, country

but to make things more translucent, here’s my config:

{
module: "MMM-google-route",
position: "top_left",
config: {
	key: "api-key", 
	directionsRequest:{
		origin: {"lat": 40.0583287, "lng": -75.0074246},
		destination: "3401 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, US",
			height: "400px",//default=300px
			width: "400px",//default=300px
			avoidTolls: true,
			showAge: false,
			fontSize: "80%",
			}
		}
	},

sdetweil

@FruityBebbles please use code blocks

anyhow, try this lat/lng for your destination

39.9487306,-75.1965791

i don’t know anything about this module

FruityBebbles

@sdetweil said in MMM-google-route Example ?:

@FruityBebbles please use code blocks
I thought I did… my bad

anyhow, try this lat/lng for your destination

39.9487306,-75.1965791

I did, but no change…

i don’t know anything about this module

hahah could have fooled me =)
but no, you’ve gotten me closer to having this work than I have on my own so I thank you a lot.

FruityBebbles

@FruityBebbles @sdetweil
Just thought you should know that it works now…
For some reason

height: "any sized px",
width: "any sized px",
showAge: true/false,
fontSize:  80%

…were all the issues-- not sure why but I figured I’d let anybody who may be reading this know that you should make sure to get your coordinates or whatever “right,” then deal with the fancy stuff, like fontSize and stuff… fwiw