MMM-EasyBack no autostart Video

[Darkmx-6]

So I’m not sure what’s going on with mine because it won’t autostart. I did all the changes suggested and below is a copy straight out of the MagicMirror/js/electron.js file.

I’ve restarted it many times.

Before I edited it it had everything there except

'autoplay-policy', 'no-user-gesture-required'

was

"autoplay-policy", "no-user-gesture-required"

let mainWindow;

function createWindow() {
    app.commandLine.appendSwitch('autoplay-policy', 'no-user-gesture-required');  //< -------- added
        var electronOptionsDefaults = {
                width: 800,
                height: 600,
                x: 0,
                y: 0,
                darkTheme: true,
                webPreferences: {
                        nodeIntegration: false,
                        zoomFactor: config.zoom
                },
                backgroundColor: "#000000"
        };

[sdetweil]

@Darkmx-6 can you open the developers window, using ctrl-shift-i on the keyboard, select the tab labeled console at the top of that window, and scroll up to see any info, or errors…

u can also filter for just messages from a single module by putting part of the module name in the filter entryfield

[Darkmx-6]

@sdetweil said in MMM-EasyBack no autostart Video:

and scroll up to see any info, or errors…
u can also filter for just messages from a single module by putting part of the module name in the filter entryfield

Sure, I can do that, but is there a way to do that through the console? To physically access the pi I have to climb a ladder. I’m going to do that now but it would be awesome if I don’t have to next time.

[sdetweil]

@Darkmx-6 not that I have found

[Darkmx-6]

@sdetweil

Humm… ctrl shift i doesn’t seem to work. may be it is just slow, I’m rebooting now and am going to try again. I’m using a raspberry pi zero.

[Darkmx-6]

yeah, it does nothing… is there a way to access it with the mouse?

My Keyboard is connected and working because I can quit magic mirror with the keyboard.

[sdetweil]

@Darkmx-6 all three keys together, ctrl-shift and the letter i (as in Initial)

[Darkmx-6]

yep, like if I’m hitting ctrl + alt + delete correct?

instead it’s ctrl shift i

[sdetweil]

@Darkmx-6 correct

[Darkmx-6]

Yeah I can’t get it to come up.

I’m not sure what else I can do.

[sdetweil]

@Darkmx-6 if u can change the startup, npm start dev opens the developers window

[Darkmx-6]

@sdetweil

I am trying a clean install now

[Darkmx-6]

@sdetweil

is this the start file you are talking about?

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

mmstart.sh?

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo nano mmstart.sh

  GNU nano 3.2                       mmstart.sh                                 

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/MagicMirror
node serveronly &
sleep 30
xinit /home/pi/chromium_start.sh

npm start dev

Is that where it goes?

Man doing this project makes me feel so dumb I need to learn more, any suggestions?

[Darkmx-6]

Oh an just to update with the clean install I had the same issue.

[Darkmx-6]

I am also now using a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

[Darkmx-6]

Well I ended up going to a static picture because I can’t think of what else to do.

[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.