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A Raspberry Pi operated Wireless Allsky Camera
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Gui functionality broken #18

Closed gshau closed 6 years ago

gshau commented 6 years ago

The web-app doesn't appear to take any images. I've changed lat/lon and the timezone to be in a simulated night environment, and there isn't any update to the live view page. I can run the allsky.sh script just fine, and it updates the live view page.

thomasjacquin commented 6 years ago

Hi Gabe, which settings.json file have you modified?

There is one located at /home/pi/allsky/settings.json. This is the one that's being used by default. You can see that at the bottom of config.sh There is another one that is created when you install the GUI. It is located at /var/www/html/settings.json. This is a copy of /home/pi/allsky/settings.json and that's the one that gets used after you've installed the GUI.

The reason for it is that the lighttp webserver could not reach files located in the /home/pi/allsy directory. I know it's a bit confusing but if you set the lat/long using the webserver (camera settings page) it should work the way you want.

Thomas

gshau commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply Thomas. I’m editing the one on the webpage, which points to /var/www/html/.

Gabe

thomasjacquin commented 6 years ago

Does it update the image now? The capture should start automatically when allsky.sh starts after the Raspberry Pi has finished booting. You can run ps -aux in the terminal to see what process is running. You should see capture in that list. Then you know it's capturing data. If it didn't boot automatically, make sure you have a reference to allsky in /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart. Also make sure you've chosen a real dark place on earth as the software only starts after civil twilight.

gshau commented 6 years ago

Okay, thanks. It’s odd, I had to create the .config/o session/LXDE-pi directory. I’m running off raspian-lite. Should echo ‘@allsky’ >> ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart work?

thomasjacquin commented 6 years ago

Oh ok, well in that case you probably don't have a graphical environment and you have to start allsky.sh manually. Creating the LXDE directory won't work because you don't have LXDE installed.

There's probably another way to start allsky.sh such as using systemd. I have rough instructions in this pull request: https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky/pull/14

That should work on any debian based distribution. Let me know if you get blocked.

gshau commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the link. I’ve tried it and had some progress. It’s going through, but am met with: (video:744): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: instead.

thomasjacquin commented 6 years ago

What value do you have for the nodisplay option?

gshau commented 6 years ago

Doh! Yes, I had that set incorrectly. I'll close this issue now. Thanks!