Help with updating location data

[Marshimellostu]

Hi thanks for creating this module. I wanted to use this module for my magic mirror car HUD and i wanted to get the coordinates (lat, lng) for my current location to be updated every few seconds. I have a txt file that has the coordinates to my current location in (lat, lng) numbers that updates every 5 seconds. Is there any way for me to read this data as input for the current location on the google-route module?

Sorry if I am asking a dumb question, I am regrettably not the best at coding. Thanks for any help and suggestion

[mrdis]

Hi, do you mean that the route should also be re-calculated every 5 seconds?
Because that would make you hit the api limits in a short time...

[Marshimellostu]

Hi ok that true i will change the timing to every 10 minutes. The main question that I had was whether it would be possible for me to have the values of the origin lat and lng to be taken from a txt file?

directionsRequest:{
origin: '',
destination: ''

[mrdis]

If you use a js file instead of a txt file, you could write it for example as:

module.exports={
    origin: '<ROUTE START>',
    destination: '<ROUTE FINISH>'
}

and in your config.js you could have

        {
            module: 'MMM-google-route',
            position: 'top_left',
            config: {
                key: '<YOUR_KEY>',
                directionsRequest: require("<THE PATH TO THE JS FILE ABOVE>")
            }
        }

Anyway, you would still need to find a way to reload the module every ten minutes.

[Marshimellostu]

Oh that sounds promising! Yes i will try that. Thank you for the help and for making this module :)

I just wanted to clarify where I should place the module.export chunk?
And also to get it to reload the module could I use setInterval() in config.js?

Much appreciated