@sdetweil Okay. Thanks for trying to help! Much Appreciated.

@sdetweil I understand. Sorry.

Any other news modules you recommend? May try another.

@sdetweil Okay. So looking at it now, I added in Fox News and took out Ars Technica. It shows me Fox News, NYT, USA Today, but doesn’t show BBC which is still in the feeds area.
Also, it seems to reset and replay a headline before it finishes it the first time.

@sdetweil Ok I made the changes in the fetcher file hopefully. I really am kinda lost though as to what we are trying to do exactly. My main concern is that it goes to all 4 of the sources listed. NYT, USA Today, BBC, and Ars Technica. I haven’t seen Ars Technica at all.

I may just give up and find another good news module.

@mykle1 Just added it. It brought the ticker to a crawl across the screen. Super slow.

@sdetweil Okay so the reason it hangs and doesn’t go to other sources is because of what exactly? Sorry just saw this and trying to get up to speed.

I added the max news items where you said I think if I understand correctly (see config file below). I also changed the number to 0 inside the MMM-NewsFeedTicker.js.

Where is the fetcher.js? Can’t find that file.

The module keeps repeating NYT and USA Today and doesn’t move on to BBC or Ars Technica.

{
	disabled: false,
	module: "MMM-NewsFeedTicker",
	position: "bottom_bar",
	//classes: "day_scheduler",
	config: {
		maxNewsItems: 0,
	    feeds: [
		{
			title: "New York Times",
			url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
			customLogo: "NYT_logo_rss_250x40.png"
		},
		{
			title: "USA Today",
			url: "http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories",
			customLogo: "RSS_Syndication_Logo-USATN.png"
		},
		{
			title: "BBC World News",
			url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#",
			customLogo: "bbc_news_120x60.gif"
		},
		{
			title: "Ars Technica",
			url: "http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/technology-lab",
			customLogo: "arstechnica.jpg"
		}
		
    	    ]
	}
    },

@mykle1 thank you!

@scumbelly

Sorry forgot to remove it.

@mykle1 said in MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs:

@cowboysdude said in MMM - NewsFeed Ticker Hangs:

Not sure let me try to load it and see what it does.

I just installed it. Running for 10 minutes, flawlessly, using the default config entry.

Nice module, Jim! :-)

EDIT:

It is NOT working properly. The 5 or 6 news items keep repeating

Okay. At least I know it is not something I did.

General question: How does one uninstall a module? Or do you just comment it or // it out?

@mykle1 interesting.

Like I said changed in the .css file the background to none and I also made a change in the speed of the ticker to 2000 in the MMM-NewsFeedTicker.js file. Could that be causing issues? Or maybe my Ars Technica addition is causing issues for some reason.

@cowboysdude the one at the link below. It just seems that it will hang on one source and keeps repeating that source instead of fading out and going to the other sources. I added Ars Technica. Could that be the issue?

Click the link to see

What do you recommend for another news ticker?

Hi, I am trying to configure the MMM-NewsFeedTicker module and it is hanging on one or two sources and never gets to the other sources. Can anyone help with this? Below is my code. Also, is there anyway to delay the fade to the other news stories until the current story finishes its line of text?

Just to note I did change the speed at which the text moves and I did change the ticker itself to none for the background.

{
	disabled: false,
	module: "MMM-NewsFeedTicker",
	position: "bottom_bar",
	//classes: "day_scheduler",
	config: {
	    feeds: [
		{
			title: "New York Times",
			url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
			customLogo: "NYT_logo_rss_250x40.png"
		},
		{
			title: "USA Today",
			url: "http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories",
			customLogo: "RSS_Syndication_Logo-USATN.png"
		},
		{
			title: "BBC World News",
			url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#",
			customLogo: "bbc_news_120x60.gif"
		},
		{
			title: "Ars Technica",
			url: "http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/technology-lab",
			customLogo: "arstechnica.jpg"
		}
		
    	    ]
	}
    },

@sdetweil Oh sorry! Just a small thing. I went ahead and changed the overall MagicMirror setting in the config file to imperial and that worked without me having to adjust the module itself. Got it working now! Appreciate the help!

@scumbelly I went ahead and installed the MMM OpenWeather module you mentioned and got it working. I was able to add in Lat and Long. Now how do I make it Fahrenheit? I am trying to place units in the module and when MM launches it acts like their is an error in the config file. Here is the module…

{
  module: "MMM-OpenWeatherMapForecast",
  header: "Weather",
  position: "top_right",
  classes: "default everyone",
  disabled: false,
  config: {
    apikey: "removed",
    latitude: "36.016651",
    longitude: "-83.415611",      
    iconset: "4c",
    concise: false,
    forecastLayout: "table"
	units: "imperial",
  }
},

@scumbelly @scumbelly I am running version 2.14.0

I don’t see that particular information in the config file. Below is what I see. Do I need to install OpenWeather from the 3rd party modules even though it was pre-installed? Or can I just copy and paste in what you have given me?

{
module: “currentweather”,
position: “top_right”,
config: {
location: “Dandridge”,
locationID: “5128581”, //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
appid: “YOUR_OPENWEATHER_API_KEY”
}
},
{
module: “weatherforecast”,
position: “top_right”,
header: “Weather Forecast”,
config: {
location: “New York”,
locationID: “5128581”, //ID from http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz; unzip the gz file and find your city
appid: “YOUR_OPENWEATHER_API_KEY”
}
},

@scumbelly this was with OpenWeather? If so, I’ll try that rather than going through the OpenWeather city ID list and looking for my city.

@george Thanks. I tried using “unit” in the config area of the module and set it to imperial and also tried just the letter “I” and when I launched with npm start it said something was wrong with the config file.

@bkeyport I noticed that on the city list provided by Open Weather that it has the wrong latitude and longitude for my city. I’ll have to double check, but if I recall correctly it had it wrong.

I don’t suppose one can input coordinates manually?

Hi, I have been having a hard time finding a Weather module that allows a free API and works. I am trying out the MMM-NOAA3 module found out the link below and am trying to use Weatherbit. I need to change the units to Fahrenheit. Can I do this?

Also, can anyone recommend a working good module besides NOAA3?

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