@sdetweil said in config.js in JSON format:

@Serge remember, this is not MagicMirror…

I have looked throught all the code. For simplicity I will call “SmartMirror” as SM and MagicMirror as MM further.

1. config.schema.json files in SM contain plugins’ parameters and these files have JSON format. Example is a calendar config file smart-mirror/plugins/calendar/config.schema.json

{
    "schema": {
        "calendar": {
            "type": "object",
            "title": "Calendar Settings",
            "properties": {
                "icals": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "title": "iCal URLs",
                    "items": {
                        "type": "string"
                    }
                },
                "maxResults": {
                    "type": "integer",
                    "title": "Max Number of Events for all iCals",
                    "default": 9

2. config.js in MagicMirror is not made in JSON format so it is not easy to make changes there as compared to SM’s config.schema.json

var config = {
	address: "localhost", 
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: [],
	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 24,
	units: "metric",
	modules: [
		{
			module: "newsfeed",
			position: "bottom_bar",
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "New York Times",
						url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true,
				broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
				broadcastNewsUpdates: true
	}, },	], };

Maybe I think wrong, please correct me if so.

@lavolp3 said in config.js in JSON format:

I think I understand (and like!) what you are trying to do, but the downside is that you’re going to create one hell of a file. The module configs are in a lot of cases much bigger than what the module creator suggests users to change. The clock you’ve shown is a very good example.

All other modules have + - the same number of parameters. config.js looks good and readable.
Changes of module parameters do not affect functionality. They change appearence so if all parameters are inputed correctly (e.g. numbers to numbers, strings to strings) - everything will work fine.

I would very much like to see the web interface to be limited to layers with a drop-down function
First layer: all installed modules.
Click on a module -> open dropdown with all config parameters for this module.

I have some draft of the interface and it looks similar to those you have described. However, I drop off the idea of dropdowns - due to the huge amount of settings for each module. I have made a left side menu with buttons for each module: e.g. clock, calendar, weather, etc. Some current screenshot is attached.

Screenshot from mobile phone:

Is there somethin on github that I can have a look at already?

Not yet. Its a local development at this stage.

@sdetweil said in config.js in JSON format:

I have created modules using this capability.

do you have your development available somewhere to look over?

@Sean
I am going to make external app to change all module parameters.
What does I mean based on the “clock” module example:

1. Сurrent config.js has the following settings for clock module:

modules: [
		{
			module: "clock",
			position: "top_left"
		},
]

2. I am adding all other clock’s parameters (taken from /modules/default/clock/clock.js) into config.js:

modules: [
{
	    module: "clock",
            position: "top_left"
            config: {
                displayType: "digital",
		displaySeconds: true,
		showPeriod: true,
		showPeriodUpper: false,
		clockBold: false,
		showDate: true,
		showWeek: false,
		dateFormat: "dddd, LL",
		analogSize: "200px",
		analogFace: "simple", 
		analogPlacement: "bottom",
		analogShowDate: "top", 
		secondsColor: "#888888",
		timezone: null,		
}, }, ]

3. Parameters in config.js overwrites the parameters in clock.js, so it works fine in such way.
4. I am going to make some external app (web-interface) to allow user to make changes in config.js (in file) and reload MM in order effect take place.
   This should be a similar to “MMM Remote control” module but different in functionality and in its logic - my app should change the file config.js).

I need to consult with community how to make this in correct and simple way? At the moment I have a template based on SB Admin 2 (html bootstrap)

Is it possible to change config.js file into JSON format for easy and smooth interchange between apps (for reading values from it and writing values to it)?.

Hello everyone!
I need to integrate few 3rd party modules to the MM core to appear them like a default modules.
I want to add the following:

• email-mirror https://github.com/ronny3050/email-mirror
• MMM-PIR-Sensor https://github.com/paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor
• MMM-Remote-Control https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control

to the MM installer as a default modules.

I see, that

• dependencies for default modules are stored within MagicMirror/node_modules while dependencies for 3rd party modules are stored within folder of each such module.
• default modules are stored in MagicMirror/Modules/default while 3rd party modules are stored within Modules/[Module_name].

I have forked the MM git, but can’t understand what to do next to make these 3 modules default for installation (I do not need to use installers/postinstall/postinstall.sh for this purposes as i need to appear these 3 modules as a default ones).

Is it easy to complete this task? I would be thankful for any ideas and thought.

Hallo,
I need to run MagicMirror as a server and client at the same raspberry.
For this purposes I have:

1. installed MM server docker container (as per https://github.com/bastilimbach/docker-MagicMirror) . It works fine and accessible through browser at 172.17.0.1 and at localhost.
2. installed MM and through automatic installation

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

3. run MM client according to the manual:

npm start && node clientonly --address 172.17.0.1 --port 8080

Here is the log

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start && node clientonly --address 172.17.0.1 --port 8080

> magicmirror@2.7.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

Starting MagicMirror: v2.7.1
Loading config ...
Loading module helpers ...
No helper found for module: alert.
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: clock.
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: calendar
No helper found for module: compliments.
No helper found for module: currentweather.
No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: newsfeed
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 ... 
You're using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs
Server started ...
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Connecting socket for: calendar
Starting node helper for: calendar
Connecting socket for: newsfeed
Starting module: newsfeed
Sockets connected & modules started ...
Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
{ Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:8080
    at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1330:14)
    at listenInCluster (net.js:1378:12)
    at doListen (net.js:1492:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:755:11)
    at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:241:19)
    at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:579:3)
  errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
  code: 'EADDRINUSE',
  syscall: 'listen',
  address: '0.0.0.0',
  port: 8080 }
MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
If you think this really is an issue, please open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues
Launching application.
^CShutting down server...

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

config.js is configured as the following:

var config = {
	address: "0.0.0.0", // Address to listen on, can be:
	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: [], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],

Could anyone tell me what should i look at?
I need to run both (1) MM server in a docker container and (2) MM client at the same Raspberry.

@maiky09 it is not VA. Check all monitors suitable for you in terms of size/price and check at other website which type of matrix these LCD have. As was said above, the best option is VA (Vertical Alignment)

@sdetweil
thanx. I have put into container RUN command direct links

--volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/config

instead of relative ones

--volume ~/magic_mirror/config

So the RUN command looked like:

docker run  -d \
--publish 80:8080 \
--restart always \
--volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/config:/opt/magic_mirror/config \
--volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/modules:/opt/magic_mirror/modules \
--name magic_mirror \
bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry

I also changed config, as I understood I should wrote port 80 there, so m,y config.js is the following:

var config = {
    	address: "0.0.0.0", // Address to listen on, can be:
    	                      // - "localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1" to listen on loopback interface
    	                      // - another specific IPv4/6 to listen on a specific interface
    	                      // - "", "0.0.0.0", "::" to listen on any interface
    	                      // Default, when address config is left out, is "localhost"
    	port: 80,
    	ipWhitelist: [], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses
    	                                                       // or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
    	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],
    	                                                       // or IPv4 range of 192.168.3.0 --> 192.168.3.15 use CIDR format :
    	                                                       // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.3.0/28"],
    if (typeof module !== "undefined") { module.exports = config; }
    
    	language: "en",
    	timeFormat: 24,
    	units: "metric",
    
    	modules: [
    		{
    			module: "alert",
    		},
    		{
    			module: "updatenotification",
    			position: "top_bar"
    		},
    		{
    			module: "clock",
    			position: "top_left"
    		},
    		// OTHER MODULES CONFIGURATIONS DELETED HERE FOR SIMPLICITY
    	]
    
    };
    
    /*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
    if (typeof module !== "undefined") {module.exports = config;}

I have did once more all the steps

Here is log from terminal

pi@raspberrypi:/ $ docker run  -d \
> --publish 80:8080 \
> --restart always \
> --volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/config:/opt/magic_mirror/config \
> --volume /home/pi/magic_mirror/modules:/opt/magic_mirror/modules \
> --name magic_mirror \
> bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry
37638fe6e1d0dee6b3ff9973c8ec7e2c7d6b0fa71b4c095e94738b197387074e
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                       COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                  NAMES
37638fe6e1d0        bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry   "/opt/docker-entrypo…"   11 seconds ago      Up 7 seconds        0.0.0.0:80->8080/tcp   magic_mirror
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ cd /home/pi/magic_mirror/config
pi@raspberrypi:~/magic_mirror/config $ sudo nano config.js
pi@raspberrypi:~/magic_mirror/config $ cd /
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ ifconfig
docker0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.17.255.255
        inet6 fe80::5b8a:414d:261e:c2f3  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 02:42:cf:fa:cf:16  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 12  bytes 1601 (1.5 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 170  bytes 28294 (27.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth0: flags=4099  mtu 1500
        ether b8:27:eb:fd:40:7d  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

veth2d3c6a7: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 169.254.32.50  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 169.254.255.255
        inet6 fe80::ef51:3415:a096:b052  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 9a:4f:36:79:b3:72  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4  bytes 651 (651.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 127  bytes 19147 (18.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4163  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.43.78  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.43.255
        inet6 fe80::fff4:43e5:edc6:cc9e  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether b8:27:eb:a8:15:28  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 13597  bytes 14840294 (14.1 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 11414  bytes 1524830 (1.4 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

pi@raspberrypi:/ $ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                       COMMAND                  CREATED              STATUS              PORTS                  NAMES
37638fe6e1d0        bastilimbach/docker-magicmirror:raspberry   "/opt/docker-entrypo…"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   0.0.0.0:80->8080/tcp   magic_mirror
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ 

When I trying to reach through
localhost:80, 127.0.0.1:80 the browser returns

This site can’t be reached The connection was reset.Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_RESET

When I am trying to reach through the address
localhost:8080, 127.0.0.1:8080

This site can’t be reached 127.0.0.1 refused to connect.
Try: Checking the connection, Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

So the errors are different (connection is reset and refused, respectively).
What else should I check , @sdetweil could you please advice me?

@Sean said in LED display shines through:

VA

sorry for misunderstanding.
I kept in mind and thought about VA but typed PLS.
Of course the diff in IPS and VA is visible especially in dark color, due to the higher contrast in the last one.
You are right.
Late response speed is not an issues for MM projects I think.