Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
EyeCandy and out-of-memory
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I also used eye candy! it’s great! but unfortunately, yeah, it runs up the memory, and in my case crashes the display… I have since commented out the plugin in my config, but that plugin is top shelf man! love it!!
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@Mykle1 I realize it’s not the most … informative… of modules, but I was playing around with the idea of combining it with face recognition, to show the freakish eye when it’s someone it doesn’t recognize :).
This was with the new electron version and the GL drivers. I had some of the other eye candy URLs on the screen for a day or so, playing around and no issue. However, just that particular selection it would crash in about 10 minutes. Weird. Possibly the memory usage was high on the others - I didn’t do any debug until it broke, of course.
I’m happy to play around with more debugging.
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By all means, do what you will with it, and most of all, have fun! :-)
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Also have to remember that the pi is limited in just about every way…
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Especially remember that electron and gifs are really a bad combination especially on the raspeberry pi since it does not use hardware acelleration :unamused_face:
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I had thought about using an intervalTimer which showed a list of images in succession, but I think that would be worse than a GIF for the Raspi. :zipper-mouth_face:
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@chef i have been using MMM-ImagesPhotos or MMM-ImageSlideshow and don’t see the out of memory issue… don’t have any gifs in the image list tho
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When you directly display MM2 on your raspberrypi you could do an overlay with omxplayer. it supports hardware acceleration which makes it run really smooth with gifs
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@maxbachmann that’s a really great idea. I noticed that is how some of the Security Camera MM2 modules work.
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np had the same problem and figured I could solve it that way ;)
