@joeytuck said in Help... I need help installing 3rd party modules to Magic Mirror 2:

Do I need to add ’ ’ around numeric values as well?

Usually you don’t. It distinguishes between (for example) the NUMBER 5 and the TEXT containing “5”. To be sure, you should look at the default values and just do it in the same way. For example, arrival_time seems to require " " even though the given example “1445” also could have been a plain number (I guess the reason is the leading 0 at for example “0800” which gets ignored when inputting as number)

Also, you got some strange quotation marks ´ ´. Until now I thought, only " " and ’ ’ were valid.

@fox you mean like requested here?

@romain Why not set some random position and hide all (other) modules on startup with the method you use at runtime? As far as I know it is possible to get a list of all modules.

MMM-ProfileSwitcher does something similar at startup (shows only modules with class “default” at start). Maybe you can look into their code to see how they do it?! Or you just use the MMM-ProfileSwitcher itself just to hide all modules at startup (quick and dirty).

@joeytuck said in Help... I need help installing 3rd party modules to Magic Mirror 2:

Also, do I need to do anything to the MMM-Traffic.js file defaults like adding the api_key or changing values to match my selections on the config.js file?

No. To include the MMM-Traffic module you just have to include it in your config.js (providing all the required settings).

@joeytuck said

Turns out that if you put Drive, instead of Dr, it won’t recognize it.

Where do you put Drive or Dr? In the readMe, possible values for “mode” are described to be ‘driving’, ‘walking’, ‘bicycling’, ‘transit’.

I suggest to delete or comment (adding // before the line) all not-required settings of MMM-Traffic at first to minimize possible sources for errors.

@RE_Magic_Mirror maybe there was a comma missing somewhere in the large amount of lines (sometimes not easy to spot). Good to hear you got it to work properly.

One more note: you should never need to do changes to compliments.js (or any other source code file). Like for (nearly) every module, it should be sufficient to change the config file (and sometimes extra remote files like for example the compliments file). In particular, the location of the external compliments file should be defined in the config file.

@AlexNY007 It means there is an update ready to download and install. Its up to you if you want to update or not, but usually you want to update, especially on master branch where everything should be stable on release ;)
Just look into the readme/description of the corresponding module. There you will usually find an explanation of how to update.

In most cases this includes to cd into the module directory and git pull (sometimes npm install is required, too).

Maybe it should be added that when you have problems finding the correct “back tick” character, you can also use the </> button right above the input field to insert a code-formatted block.

@AlexNY007 The description (content of readme) is displayed below of what you posted. However, there is indeed no explicit explanation of the update process. Just navigate into the folder (presumably cd MMM-Todoist), git pull and npm install. That should be sufficient.

@kurt I always wondered, too.
While this may not solve your problem completely, did you consider removing modules in (reversed) order? This way, no re-order of modules has to be done hence the indices should be ok?! (Not tested)