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kevinabrandon / AboveTustin

ADS-B Twitter Bot. Uses dump1090-mutability to track airplanes and then tweets whenever an airplane flies overhead.
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Not running on startup #37

Open cm2339 opened 5 years ago

cm2339 commented 5 years ago

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out why the script is not running at startup and i can't. I've looked into rc.local and the line for the tracker is there: /home/pi/adsb-receiver/build/abovetustin/AboveTustin/run_tracker.sh & Still not starting automatically. Any clues on how to make it run on startup? Thanks!

kevinabrandon commented 5 years ago

I'm not exactly sure how the adsb-receiver project installs the project, but if you open run_tracker.sh in a text editor you can edit the first two lines: 

cd /home/pi/AboveTustin
source py3/bin/activate

The first line it looks like you need to change to cd /home/pi/adsb-receiver/build/abovetustin/AboveTustin

As for the second line, that is there to activate my python environment which has things like they Twitter package and PIL installed. You can try commenting it out. If that doesn't work you'll need to see how adsb-receiver installed them and activate whatever python environment is needed.

cm2339 commented 5 years ago

I guess it needs a lxterminal window because the only way i could get it to run was to add it to the /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart file as @lxterminal -e /home/pi/adsb-receiver/build/abovetustin/AboveTustin/run_tracker.sh

Now my only problem is that it's opening two firefox windows instead of one and thus, tweeting the same thing twice

mattlabate commented 5 years ago

Still working on a similar issue, i.e., how do I crontab reboot every day, and then restart the program. System reboots fine, and logs even show the run_tracker.sh called, but no love on the program starting up. Has something to do with starting an .sh file from crontab with terminal, but not smart enough to figure it out yet. Any thoughts?

** I used a Pi, with ADSB Receiver (and AboveTustin) installed, to create a twitter account that tweets every time a plane flies overhead (under 4K feet).

The account is here (https://twitter.com/above_carpenter), and for anybody interested in duplicating what I did, you can see step by step here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ce2W1gocX7U-KHuiw7pEQQj5fjZ2ShqRsajj3dEmp-8/edit

cm2339 commented 5 years ago

@mattlabate

I had another instance(i probably added it while trying to figure it out and forgot about) under /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/

As soon as i took it out, it stop opening it twice. Now it runs at start it with no issues.