Compliments not loading from local file.

[jschneekloth]

My docker compose file has volumes setup as:

    volumes:
      - ~/volumes/config:/opt/magic_mirror/config
      - ~/volumes/modules:/opt/magic_mirror/modules
      - ~/volumes/css:/opt/magic_mirror/css

I copied compliments.json which is straight copy of this compliments file to the modules directory. My config for complements is setup as follows:

{
      module: "compliments",
      position: "lower_third",
      config: {
        remoteFile: "/opt/magic_mirror/modules/compliments.json",
     },
}

When ran, the default compliments are shown and not the remoteFile that I've specified above. Here's output of running docker compose exec -t -i magic-mirror ls /opt/magic_mirror/modules on the host:

MMM-IQAir  MMM-WiFiPassword  calendars  compliments.json  default

When I try two other versions of this configuration, the compliments load as expected:

{
      module: "compliments",
      position: "lower_third",
      config: {
        remoteFile: "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ryck/e28a69665b8839f6e9a7acd6b4acc97d/raw/be1dee8f805a433f6ee0fa3556d1927da14e7799/compliments.json",
     },
}

^^^ Works

{
      module: "compliments",
      position: "lower_third",
      config: {
        compliments:  {
             // Paste of content of above gist
        }
     },
}

^^^ Works

Any idea on what might be going on here, why can't I reference the local file for compliments?

[sdetweil]

the remotefile contains only everything after the compliments:
in json format

{
...
}

json has all text in double quotes

there are some good online validators

and 'local' file needs to be thru a web server
MM's server is rooted at ~/MagicMirror

http://localhost:8080/modules/default/compliments/xxx json

for example, all the files have to be in the mm folder tree

[jschneekloth]

I corrected one of the working examples above, bad copy/paste. @sdetweil not sure what you're calling out specifically, sorry if that caused confusion above. The referenced gist works if referenced via URL, but if I instead bring that file local to the container, it doesn't load as expected and instead the default compliments are displayed. I don't think this is a json formatting issue as the same contents are present without modification in the gist as well as the json file presented from local file system.

[khassel]

you can't use the whole filename from the underlying file system because the web server does load this within the compliments.js file.

So you have to use a relative path, in this case the compliments.json is 2 directories above so

remoteFile: "../../compliments.json"

should work.

[jschneekloth]

@khassel That did the trick, and makes sense, thanks!