do you have any pointers to examples of websockets from the module? or your “other JS code” means some OTHER library of JS code…
looks like I would have to build another js class to wrap the ws services…(run the server side in the helper) cause I can’t require() in the module itself… load those classes via the scripts…
cool… that would allow my components to communicate in a synchronous mode…
not class variable (I got that now), but shared would solve a ton of problems.
the question was, how do you KNOW that music is playing? what code tells u?
I would expect the spotify playing module to do a sendNotification(“spotify_Playing”,something);
so that other modules might know… it does not do that (looking at the code)…
you could fork the existing code and add the 2 lines (one playing, one not) of code and submit an enhancement (pull) request to the module owner…
i have a lot of code running in another node/angular mirror app and have never seen this syntax…
@brenj said in Modules again.....:
timeFormat: int 60 fadeSpeed: int 5
the json data model is if text, then the data is quoted foo:“something”, if numeric, the data is not quoted, bar:60
no ‘int’
a module to show/hide would not be hard… but, how will you KNOW that spotify is playing (or has ended)…
does the spotify playing module send notifications of these events?
what is the model being used for both module and helper?
where and how do I declare variables? either global or instance? (not method variables)
in a helper if I declare outside the NodeHelper.create(…), they are truely global, and other helpers will overwrite my variables if the names collide.
the doc also mentions sendSocketNotification, in both directions… module to helper and helper to module(s) (of same name if multiple)…
this.sendSocketNotification(notification, payload)
notification String - The notification identifier.
payload AnyType - Optional. A notification payload.
If you want to send a notification to the node_helper, use the sendSocketNotification(notification, payload). Only the node_helper of this module will receive the socket notification.
and
Each **node helper** has some handy methods which can be helpful building your module.
this.sendSocketNotification(notification, payload)
notification String - The notification identifier.
payload AnyType - Optional. A notification payload.
If you want to send a notification to all your modules, use the sendSocketNotification(notification, payload). Only the module of your module type will receive the socket notification.
and also looks like with MM.getModules(). i can get an object reference to the instances of the other components, and access their public methods…
scheduler->handler.start(viewer_config),
handler->scheduler.next(viewer)