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helgeerbe / picframe

Picture frame viewer for raspi, controlled via mqtt and automatticly integrated as mqtt device in homeassistant.
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New Setup can't get it working #382

Closed loucapo closed 7 months ago

loucapo commented 8 months ago

Hello! I am new to picframe and have not been able to get it to open once i point it to my photos folder (which is stored on a thumb drive). when it tries to run, the screen goes blank for a few seconds then it returns to a command prompt with no errors. Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

I used this tutorial as my base: https://www.thedigitalpictureframe.com/how-to-add-crossfading-slide-transitions-to-your-digital-picture-frame-using-pi3d/

I'm running a fresh bullseye install on my Pi 4. LMK if you need any more info.

Thanks in advance!

paddywwoof commented 8 months ago

Hi, does it work OK if you put a few images in /home/pi/Pictures i.e. can you tell if the problem is related to the USB drive. It might be worth setting the logging to go to a file (in the configuration yaml file) and a lower threshold for message such as DEBUG, to see if any indicators are recorded.

loucapo commented 8 months ago

perhaps thats my issue? i am not using the pi user, but my own. could that be it?

paddywwoof commented 8 months ago

It should be fine with whatever user you want, but you need to make sure that all the file paths used in the config yaml file are correct. Did it run OK with the 'no pictures found' default image?

loucapo commented 8 months ago

yes it did. i havent had a chance to try the local images thing yet but should tonight.

loucapo commented 8 months ago

having the same issue when pointing to a local folder /home/MYUSERNAME/Pictures

loucapo commented 7 months ago

ok i am a tool and got it to work with a local folder. once its running as a service, is there a way to stop it? the keyboard commands seem disabled during this.

jgodfrey commented 7 months ago

is there a way to stop it?

To stop the service? If so, this should work:

sudo systemctl stop picframe

(where picframe is the name of your service)

loucapo commented 7 months ago

yea but i dont have access to the terminal when its running (and i dont think i enabled SSH) 🤦

jgodfrey commented 7 months ago

Ah, yeah. I just ssh in to fiddle with things...

loucapo commented 7 months ago

there must be a way to stop it from booting without ssh, i would think. i havent found anything as of yet.

jgodfrey commented 7 months ago

I hardly ever use it, but IIRC, the http interface provides a stop button (if you activated http in the frame's config). By default, that runs on port 9000. Also, if you have a keyboard hooked up, I'd guess you could reboot and (quickly) disable the service prior to it starting up...

loucapo commented 7 months ago

how would u do that last part? i'm not a terminal guy, generally but a UI dev 😬

jgodfrey commented 7 months ago

After a reboot, as soon as you have keyboard control, enter:

sudo systemctl disable picframe

(again, where picframe should be the name of your service)

If you're quick, that should disable the service before it has a chance to start.

loucapo commented 7 months ago

apparently i'm too slow or my pi is too fast 😢

EDIT: got it! thanks!

paddywwoof commented 7 months ago

I use http as I don't have home assistant running. Set this to True in the config file then you can control it with your phone browser with address192.168.0.123:9000 Obviously changing ...0.123 to match the address of your frame.

The other thing I do is open a second terminal using Ctrl-F2