Hi @ ninjabreadman - Unbelievably I managed to follow your instructions to the letter! Sadly, it made no difference to the Pushbullet module I’m trying to add. As stated previously, the app ‘loads’ but constantly shows “No new Notifications”. I’ve put the relevant Pushbullet key in but it’s simply not displaying any messages.

Do you have any thoughts or suggestions?

Many thanks.

@ninjabreadman - Thank you. I shall give it a go shortly and let you know how I get on! Thanks again!

@ninjabreadman - Thanks, appreciate you doing this for me. In step one, I’m presuming you’re doing all of this on the Pi - not from a Mac or PC?

Hi @ninjabreadman - Yes, I paste in to the config.js via VNC. I really appreciate your input and guidance on this. Would it be a request too far to ask you to breakdown the steps you take from start to finish to add a module? You suggest using an SFTP client but I have no knowledge of what this is, how it works, how I incorporate this in to what I’m doing and at what point. I’m happy to install whatever is recommended - I just need guidance on the process. I think you linked to a ‘newbie’s guide to installing a module’ which seemed to suggest the ‘cut and paste’ approach I have been doing - albeit probably on a PC rather than a Mac.

I’d be very grateful but I appreciate it if my request is a request too far…

@ninjabreadman - Hi.

I AM using a Mac! I’m simply VNC-ing into the Raspberry Pi. How can I easily attach images to my communications on this forum? Images of my procedure may help in explaining my situation clearly and concisely.

Regards

I’m simply (from the MagicMirror folder in terminal on Raspberry Pi - ‘pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $’ keying in ‘nano config/config.js’. I then paste and amend module stuff in there. I presume I’m doing this all wrong?

Have I actually been using TextEdit though? I simply ‘right click’ over what I want to copy from the modules section of the 3rd party modules page on MagicMirror2, before copying and then pasting in the config.js section. Where does TextEdit come in to my procedure?

I have downloaded and installed Atom as suggested. You suggest I 'open the file or right-click and select “open with…” ’ - What file am I opening or selecting to open with?

@ninjabreadman - thanks for the info. As explained throughout the thread I’m the exact definition of a ‘newbie’. When detailing text editors such as TextEdit, Atom etc, what role do they play in what I am trying to achieve?

As an example:

I want to install a TP module I’ve found (as this Pushbullet one is). There is a ‘using this module’ section which tells us to add the following configuration block to the ‘modules’. I have simply been copy and pasting this configuration in to the config.js section and tweaking the parts I can/want to. How and why would I use Atom to do this? Genuine question - I simply have no idea. I’m eager to learn but clearly need basic guidance on this.

Appreciate it.

Thanks for the response.

Not that I’m doubting you for a second but wouldn’t that stop other modules working? I have other modules using quotation marks (denoting screen position, header etc) which seem to run without issue.

Secondly, how would I go about changing these to the correct format as I only have a Mac to use.

Thank you.

@ninjabreadman
Hi, @ninjabreadman - apologies for the delay in responding. I really appreciate your contribution to my queries. Sadly, when I said I was a ‘newbie’ I really meant that I was a newbie! I simply don’t understand some of your answer. ‘Syntax error crashing the parser, try pasting into JSHint’ might as well be written in hieroglyphics. Could you explain in very basic language what I should be doing? I have made slight progress (although I’m unsure how!) on the Pushbullet notifications in so much as the screen is no longer blank and the module displays on my monitor. What it doesn’t do is show any notifications when they come through. It simply says ‘no new notifications’. Here’s (hopefully) how the module is set up. Can you spot anything which is stopping notifications working?

/{
module: “PushBulletNotes”,
header: “iPhone Messages”,
disabled: false,
position: “bottom_left”, // Or any valid MagicMirror position.
config: {
accessToken: “o.(middle bit left out)i”,
numberOfNotifications: 5,
showNotificationIcon: true,
showMessage: true,
showCount: true,
fade: true,
maxMsgCharacters: 50,
maxHeaderCharacters: 32
}
},
//

Thanks in advance!