Problem editing yaml to enable MQTT

[GitRayc]

Sorry to bother you all again.

I am trying to take the next step to be able to change to subdirectories of my picture data base. But I am doing something wrong when I edit the yaml file which then causes booting up. It hangs when trying to load/start picframe.

I have mosquitto installed okay and the test you suggest confirms this,

Next is editing the yaml file where I am having problems.

At default it looks like this:

mqtt: use_mqtt: False # default=False. Set True true, to enable mqtt server: "your_mqtt_broker" # No defaults for server port: 8883 # default=8883 for tls, 1883 else (tls must be "" then !!!!!) login: "name" # your mqtt user password: "your_password" # password for mqtt user tls: "/path/to/your/ca.crt" # filename including path to your ca.crt. If not used, must be set to "" !!!! device_id: "picframe" # default="picframe" unique id of device. change if there is more than one PictureFrame device_url: "" # if use_http==True, set url to picframe config page. Must be a valid url, or

You say to edit the following lines. Can you tell me if this is correct in my example below:

use_mqtt: True server: 192.168.1.209 I do not include the quotation marks correct? 192.168.1.209 is my ip address port: 1883 it is 8883 by default. Should I leave it as 8883 or change it to 1883?

[jgodfrey]

If you're having a hang problem, it's likely indicative of a syntax problem in the config file. It's going to be hard to diagnose without the complete file - can you attach it?

Regarding the values, they generally look OK to me.

• You can simply use "localhost" for the server (with the quotes)
• You probably want port 1883. Only use 8883 if your using TLS

[GitRayc]

Which config file would you like to see? The complete configuration.yaml?

[GitRayc]

If you meant the configurtion.yaml then here it is. Set to False right now so picframe will load/start viewer: blur_amount: 12 # default=12, larger values than 12 will increase processing load quite a bit blur_zoom: 1.0 # default=1.0, must be >= 1.0 which expands the backgorund to just fill the space around the image blur_edges: False # default=False, use blurred version of image to fill edges - will override FIT = False edge_alpha: 0.5 # default=0.5, background colour at edge. 1.0 would show reflection of image fps: 20.0 # default=20.0 background: [0.2, 0.2, 0.3, 1.0] # default=[0.2, 0.2, 0.3, 1.0], RGBA to fill edges when fitting blend_type: "blend" # default="blend", choices={"blend", "burn", "bump"}, type of blend the shader can do font_file: "/home/pi/picframe_data/data/fonts/NotoSans-Regular.ttf" shader: "/home/pi/picframe_data/data/shaders/blend_new" show_text_fm: "%b %d, %Y" # default "%b %d, %Y", format to show date over the image show_text_tm: .1 # default=20.0, time to show text over image with file name show_text_sz: 1 # default=40, text character size show_text: "title caption name date folder location" # default="title caption name date folder location", show text, include combination of words: title, caption name, date, location, folder text_justify: "L" # text justification L, C or R text_bkg_hgt: 0.25 # default=0.25 (0.0-1.0), percentage of screen height for text background texture text_opacity: 0 # default=1.0 (0.0-1.0), alpha value of text overlay fit: False # default=False, True => scale image so all visible and leave 'gaps'

False => crop image so no 'gaps'

kenburns: False # default=False, will set fit->False and blur_edges->False display_x: 0 # offset from left of screen (can be negative) display_y: 0 # offset from top of screen (can be negative) display_w: null # width of display surface (null->None will use max returned by hardware) display_h: null # height of display surface display_power: 0 # default=0. choices={0, 1}, 0 will use legacy vcgencmd and 1 will use xset to blank the display use_glx: False # default=False. Set to True on linux with xserver running use_sdl2: True # default=True. Needed for running pi3d with sdl2 on Pi2 and Pi3

mat_images: 0.01 # default=0.01, True, automatically mat all images. False, don't automatically mat any images. Real value, auto-mat all images with aspect ratio difference > than value mat_type: null # default=null, A string containing the mat types to choose from when matting images. It can consist of any or

all of 'float float_polaroid float_color_wrap single_bevel double_bevel double_flat' (null or '' will use all mat types)

outer_mat_color: null # default=null, Color of the outer mat as an RGB list. null will auto-select a reasonable color based on the image. inner_mat_color: null # default=null, Color of the inner mat as an RGB list. null will auto-select a reasonable color based on the image. outer_mat_border: 75 # default=75, Minimum outer mat border in pixels inner_mat_border: 40 # default=40, Minimum inner mat border in pixels (for styles that use it) outer_mat_use_texture: True # default=True, True uses a texture for the outer mat. False creates a solid-color outer mat. inner_mat_use_texture: False # default=False, True uses a texture for the inner mat. False creates a solid-color inner mat. mat_resource_folder: "/home/pi/picframe_data/data/mat" # Folder containing mat image files

show_clock: False # default=False, True shows clock overlay. False does not show clock overlay clock_justify: "R" # default="R", clock justification L, C, or R clock_text_sz: 120 # default=120, clock character size clock_format: "%I:%M" # default="%I:%M", strftime format for clock string clock_opacity: 1.0 # default=1.0 (0.0-1.0), alpha value of clock overlay

menu_text_sz: 40 # default=40, menu character size menu_autohide_tm: 10.0 # default=10.0, time in seconds to show menu before auto hiding (0 disables auto hiding) geo_suppress_list: [] # default=None, substrings to remove from the location text

model: pic_dir: "/home/pi/USBPICS" # default="/home/pi/Pictures", root folder for images deleted_pictures: "/home/pi/DeletedPictures" # move deleted pictures here follow_links: False # default=False, By default, picframe will not walk down into symbolic links that resolve to directories. Set follow_links to True to visit directories pointed to by symlinks, on systems that support them. no_files_img: "/home/pi/picframe_data/data/no_pictures.jpg" # default="PictureFrame2020img.jpg", image to show if none selected subdirectory: "" # default="", subdir of pic_dir - can be changed by MQTT" recent_n: 10 # default=7 (days), when shuffling file change date more recent than this number of days play before the rest reshuffle_num: 1 # default=1, times through before reshuffling time_delay: 90.0 # default=200.0, time between consecutive slide starts - can be changed by MQTT fade_time: 10.0 # default=10.0, change time during which slides overlap - can be changed by MQTT" shuffle: True # default=True, shuffle on reloading image files - can be changed by MQTT" sort_cols: 'fname ASC' # default='fname ASC' can be any columns in the table with optional ASC or DESC separated by commas

fname, last_modified, file_id, orientation, exif_datetime, f_number,

                                      # exposure_time, iso, focal_length, make, model, lens, rating,
                                      # latitude, longitude, width, height, title, caption, tags,
                                      # is_portrait, location

image_attr: [ # image attributes send by MQTT, Keys are taken from exifread library, "PICFRAME GPS" is special to retrieve GPS lon/lat, "PICFRAME LOCATION" is special to retrieve geo reverse (load_geoloc hast to be True) "PICFRAME GPS", "PICFRAME LOCATION", "EXIF FNumber", "EXIF ExposureTime", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings", "EXIF FocalLength", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal", "Image Model", "Image Make", "IPTC Caption/Abstract", "IPTC Object Name", "IPTC Keywords"] load_geoloc: False # get location information from open street map NB if you switch this on (recommended) geo_key: "this_needs_to@be_changed" # then you MUST change the geo_key to something unique to you

i.e. use your email address

locale: "en_CA.ISO8859-1" # "locale -a" shows the installed locales which could used key_list: [ ["tourism","amenity","isolated_dwelling"], ["suburb","village"], ["city","county"], ["region","state","province"], ["country"]] db_file: "/home/pi/picframe_data/data/pictureframe.db3" # database used by PictureFrame portrait_pairs: False log_level: "WARNING" # default=WARNING, could beDEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL log_file: "" # default="" for debugging set this to the path to a file. NB logging messages will

appended indefinitely so don't forget this. You will need to tidy it up later

mqtt: use_mqtt: False # default=False. Set True true, to enable mqtt server: "localhost" # No defaults for server port: 1883 # default=8883 for tls, 1883 else (tls must be "" then !!!!!) login: "name" # your mqtt user password: "your_password" # password for mqtt user tls: "/path/to/your/ca.crt" # filename including path to your ca.crt. If not used, must be set to "" !!!! device_id: "picframe" # default="picframe" unique id of device. change if there is more than one PictureFrame device_url: "" # if use_http==True, set url to picframe config page. Must be a valid url, or "" otherwise home assistant runs in an error.

http: use_http: False # default=False. Set True to enable http NB THIS SERVER IS FOR LOCAL NETWORK AND SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO EXTERNAL ACCESS path: "/home/pi/picframe_data/html" # path to where html files are located port: 9000 # port used to serve pages by http server < 1024 requires root which is bad idea use_ssl: False keyfile: "path/to/key.pem" # private-key certfile: "path/to/cert.pem" # server certificate

peripherals: input_type: null # default=null, valid options: {null, "keyboard", "touch", "mouse"} buttons: pause: # pause/unpause the show enable: True # default=True label: "Pause" # default="Pause" shortcut: " " # default=" " display_off: # turn off the display (when off, any input from selected peripheral will turn it back on) enable: True # default=True label: "Display off" # default="Display off" shortcut: "o" # default="o" location: # shows or hides location information enable: False # default=False label: "Location" # default="Location" shortcut: "l" # default="l" exit: # exit PictureFrame enable: False # default=False label: "Exit" # default="Exit" shortcut: "e" # default="e" power_down: # power down the device, uses sudo enable: False # default=False label: "Power down" # default="Power down" shortcut: "p" # default="p"

[GitRayc]

Updated OS to the latest patches and all seems to work now

Thanks all