I just started setting up my MagicMirror and am a total newbie. I am not a coder / programmer – I’ve basically just mimicked the examples from the various modules in GitHub to do my configuration. So this is a pretty basic question, but one that other newbies may be wondering as well.

When entering a value for a config line, when do you need quotes?

At first, I just assumed you quoted everything. But I was changing something in my config file and noticed some unquoted values. After a little more investigation, I realized that there are a few values that only work if they are not quoted (e.g. plain numbers and boolean T/F).

Can someone confirm the specifics of this for us newbies?

In case I’m not being clear, it seems like you would do

port: 8080

without quotes but

units: "metric"

with quotes.

And a bonus question, should it be double quotes, single quotes, or can you use either one?

Does anyone know if it’s possible to tell the updatenotification module that you want to skip an update?

Sometimes I don’t need an update, but I also don’t need a message continuously displaying telling me one is available. But on the other hand, I don’t want to disable the module because I want to be notified about future updates.

Or if there isn’t some built-in way to tell the module you’re skipping the update, is there some way to trick it to think you’ve already done it?