slideshow issue from NAS

[palp]

Hello Experts,

need your help and guidance please -

I’ve started using MM recently on pi 02w (dietpi) and it has been working good with module MMM-BackgroundSlideshow to cast slideshow from a network drive (mounted via samba) i.e.
“imagePaths: [‘/mnt/samba/myPicFrame/’],”

However after i upgraded to MM 2.30.0 yesterday slideshow is being stopped and a black screen with no other module data is being displayed.
But when i switch back to MMM-BackgroundSlideshow local pic directory i.e.
“imagePaths: [‘modules/MMM-BackgroundSlideshow/exampleImages/’],”
its working fine - only for the network mount drive screen is going blank.
Please suggest any remedy or anything im doing incorrect.

Thanks, Pratap

[sdetweil]

@palp did you reboot? is the link mounted?

ls /mnt/samba/myPicFrame/

should return the list of pics
if not

sudo mount -a

if the mount is defined in /etc/fstab

[palp]

Thanks Sam, for quick response.
yes i’ve added the mount on boot in the fstab and i can browse the pictures in the /mnt/samba/myPicFrame. in fact MM is starting with those picture but going blank in a while (approx 10-15 min after start may be).

Thans, Pratap

[palp]

@sdetweil yes link is mounted correctly i can see the picture files in ‘ls /mnt/samba/myPicFrame/’ - infact MM is starting with those picture correctly but after a while (may be 10-15 min) screen is going blank.
so i guess mount of the network share is correct but something else blanking the screen after a while.

thanks for your response. please help further.

Thanks, Pratap

[sdetweil]

@palp the module produces logging to where npm start is done

if using pm2, then

pm2 logs --lines=xxxx
xxxx most recent line count, default 15

[sdetweil]

@palp also if you have a mouse or keyboard…
does that wake it up?

and then the developers console (if the browser is still alive)
ctrl-shift-i
select the console tab

[palp]

@sdetweil thanks again.
ref attached image for the log line - it is reading the networkshare/*.jpg and showing something ‘stream closed’ not sure if that is an issue or not

then i attached a keyboard and black screen does not wake by keystroke, however mouse pointer moves on black screen.
also ctrl+shift+i does nothing however ctrl+m is minimizing the MM window and showing desktop.

[sdetweil]

@palp ok, the browser side died. does the log show the same image file at crash?

[palp]

@sdetweil yes, i see the same lines in the .pm2/log/mm-out.log

not sure if im reading correct log file though!

[sdetweil]

@palp just for grins can you move butterfly.jpg out of the samba server folder

[sdetweil]

@palp i had a case like that a few years ago. one of the images was misformatted (actually 3 of 6,000)

i edited it and saved it again and it was ok after that

[palp]

@sdetweil yes you are right - i’ve removed all 50+ jpg files and started with couple of them and looks like its working i mean screen is not going blank even after longer time - as expected.

now i need to find which jpg file(s) is bad and causing this and put them back.

anyway thanks for your help!

[sdetweil]

@palp the error message tells you which jpg…

may have to cycle thru them on screen…