MMM-BackgroundSlideshow Problems

carltonb

I am attempting to use this module but am having a probably basic problem.
The module works for about 10 minutes before the screen goes blank with my cursor arrow showing.
I am using this as a clock on a refurbished laptop screen. On the left I have a date/clock heavily modded with css. On the right I have the darksky weather module. All works for days without activating the background module.
Using the background module in which the jpg files are loaded in a separate directory and the script looks like this…

  {
    module: 'MMM-BackgroundSlideshow',
    position: 'fullscreen_below',
    config: {
      imagePaths: ['modules/images/'],
      transitionImages: true,
      randomizeImageOrder: true,
      backgroundSize: 'cover',
      slideshowSpeed: 60000
    }

After about 10 minutes the images stop and I have a blank screen with the cursor. I either have to do a reboot or an npm restart to get it going again, and then after another 10 minutes it stops. I have tried various pictures with the same problem happening.

Does anyone have a possible solution.
Thanks
Carltonb

sdetweil

@carltonb i just installed this and don’t see that problem at all.

you are updating images once every 60 seconds

slideshowSpeed: 60000

how many images are in the folder?

modules/images/

try this
on the mirror, using keyboard, ctrl-shift-i, to open the deverlopers window,
select the console tab, and scroll up to see any errors…

also look at the log from where u started MM…

if pm2, then pm2 logs
otherwise on the terminal window itself

carltonb

Thank you for the reply.
Can you tell me what I MIGHT BE LOOKING FOR.
There is a lot of code with errors and warnings both in the developers window and the pm2 logs.

I do not know what is a valid error and not.

Again thank you.

sdetweil

@carltonb in the dev window (described two posts back), add ‘back’ (no quotes) to the filter field, to remove other module messages

UNSOLVED MMM-BackgroundSlideshow Problems