MMM-EasyBack no autostart Video

[sdetweil]

@Darkmx-6 i don’t know where mmstart.sh came from… it is not part of the base MagicMirror solution.

the MagicMirror start script is ~/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh

it does not run serveronly… it assumes you are running the mirror user experience ON the same machine.

i don’t know if EasyBack works on the remote client of serveronly… THAT browser would have to enable autoplay… our fix was for the electron browser running ON the same machine

edit:
ok, i see what you are doing… using chromium for the browser for some reason…

so u have to disable the autoplay blocker there , from
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes

You can decide to disable entirely the autoplay policy by setting the 
Chrome flag "Autoplay Policy" to "No user gesture is required" at chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy. 
This allows you to test your website as if user were strongly engaged with your site and playback autoplay would be always allowed.

[Darkmx-6]

Ah I see! It works THANK YOU!
Must be because of the pre-made image I installed MagicMirror with.

Here is the link:

http://emmanuelcontreras.com/how-to/how-to-create-a-magic-mirror-2-with-pi-zero-w/

Here is the fix:

I edited the file chromium_start.sh found here:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls
chromium_start.sh  MagicMirror  mmstart.sh  node-v10.16.0-linux-armv6l  package-lock.json

and added

--autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required

Example:

  GNU nano 3.2                          chromium_start.sh                                                                         

#!/bin/sh
unclutter &
xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s off # disable screen saver
xset s noblank # don’t blank the video device
matchbox-window-manager &
#midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost:8080
chromium-browser --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required --incognito --kiosk http://localhost:8080/

[sdetweil]

@Darkmx-6 cool!.. great feedback, thanks we missed that this was a pi0, and that you were running split mode…

[Darkmx-6]

@sdetweil said in MMM-EasyBack no autostart Video:

is was a pi0, and that you were running split mode…

what is split mode? If I am I didn’t mean to, I have it directly connected to a TV that I am using as a Bulletin board.

[sdetweil]

@Darkmx-6 there are two ways to run Magic Mirror

all in one(all in one application) , uses electron, npm start.
we’ve solved the pi 0 problem… my installer handles it

split mode (two applications)
start serverOnly
then view with some other browser (chrome, firefox, ie, …) either locally or from another machine/phone…

[Mykle1]

@Darkmx-6 said in MMM-EasyBack no autostart Video:

Here is the fix:

I added your fix for Chromium to the readme. Many thanks, Mate. :thumbsup:

https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-EasyBack/blob/master/README.md

[Mykle1]

@sdetweil

And Sam, my thanks, again. :-)

[Darkmx-6]

No, I thank you! I took a bit, but I’m happy with this!

[Darkmx-6]

@Mykle1

In the readme you should really give the thanks to sdetweil , he’s the one who basically gave me the answer.

[Mykle1]

@Darkmx-6 said in MMM-EasyBack no autostart Video:

In the readme you should really give the thanks to @sdetweil

Ahh, him again? :-)

Done!