MMM-Podcast don't show/load the latest video

[doubleT]

Ah, debugging. Welcome to the live of a developer. Good luck.

[MrCoffee]

Hi,

I am not sure if I should open a new topic, but somehow it fits here as well.
My MMM-Podcast does not show any video at all.
I use the default feedURL like shown above.

Is it correct that the modul does not show anything on startup or is there a picture of the linked video shown?
I do not have MMM-Button installed, but it should work with “http://IP:8080/remote?action=NOTIFICATION& notification=BUTTON_PRESSED” as well.
Sending the command my browser says “success” but nothing happens. It always shows nothing.

Can anyone help?

Thank you.

Mr.Coffee

[fox]

@MrCoffee
Did you get it running?

[MrCoffee]

@fox
No. Unfortunately not.
I don´t know what the issue is. The area were the module should be, is just black.
Nothing happens.

[fox]

@MrCoffee
I tried also to debug this, but my error.log dont give me any information.

[MrCoffee]

@fox
Thats interessting. I just realized your screenshot above.
In my case it does not show anything.
Can you please post the part of your config?

Where do I find the error.log?

Thanks

[cruunnerr]

did you guys install the omxplayer correctly?

check it like this:

cd MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Podcast

omxplayer -o hdmi video.mp4

this should play the video.

I am not using a header, so my module isn’t shown on the MM, too. I think that is correct.

[MrCoffee]

@cruunnerr
Thanks for helping us.
I tried the code. The player doesn´t show a video but says “have a nice day” in the command line.
I reinstalled it with

• sudo apt-get purge omxplayer
• sudo apt-get install omxplayer

Unfortunately it does not help. It is still “have a nice day”.
Any further ideas?

[MrCoffee]

@cruunnerr
I just tried another video just to be sure: omxplayer /opt/vc/src/hello_pi/hello_video/test.h264
This time it does show some text, but still no video.
The text is:
Video codec omx-h264 width 1920 height 1080 profile 77 fps 25.000000
Subtitle count: 0, state: off, index: 1, delay:0

However it does not quit. There is no “have a nice day” but it still shows nothing.

[MrCoffee]

@cruunnerr

So after a couple of days I gave it a new try.
You were close to the solution. I did not install the dependencies right.

For all with the same issue, you have to read the instructions better than I did:

1. Navigate into your MagicMirror’s modules folder and execute git clone https://github.com/ptrbld/MMM-Podcast.git. A new folder will appear navigate into it. --> which means navigate into MMM-Podcast.
2. Execute npm install to install the node dependencies. --> in the folder MMM-Podcast, install the omx-manager and omxdirector (see dependencies).
   3. Install omxplayer. --> However, I already had the newest version installed.

Now it works fine. And it is pretty awesome.

Thanks for helping me.

Mr.Coffee