Restoring the MM boot splash

simonbooth

@sdetweil many thanks!

I will try this tonight!

lavolp3

There is a custom boot splash screen??? :frowning_face_with_open_mouth: :dizzy_face: :smiling_face_with_heart-eyes:

sdetweil

@lavolp3 yes

sdetweil

@lavolp3

lavolp3

@sdetweil is that only installed with your script? I don’t seem to have it on my mirror with the latest update.

sdetweil

@lavolp3 it is/was installed as part of the original install script raspberry.sh, I didn’t change that except to
add some logging

# Check if plymouth is installed (default with PIXEL desktop environment), then install custom splashscreen.
echo -e "\e[96mCheck plymouth installation ...\e[0m" | tee -a $logfile
if command_exists plymouth; then
	THEME_DIR="/usr/share/plymouth/themes"
	echo -e "\e[90mSplashscreen: Checking themes directory.\e[0m" | tee -a $logfile
	if [ -d $THEME_DIR ]; then
		echo -e "\e[90mSplashscreen: Create theme directory if not exists.\e[0m" | tee -a $logfile
		if [ ! -d $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror ]; then
			sudo mkdir $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror
		fi

		if sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/splash.png $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/splash.png && sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.plymouth $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.plymouth && sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.script $THEME_DIR/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.script; then
			echo
			if [ "$(which plymouth-set-default-theme)." != "." ]; then
				if sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R MagicMirror; then
					echo -e "\e[92mSplashscreen: Changed theme to MagicMirror successfully.\e[0m" | tee -a $logfile
				else
					echo -e "\e[91mSplashscreen: Couldn't change theme to MagicMirror!\e[0m" | tee -a $logfile
				fi
			fi
		else
			echo -e "\e[91mSplashscreen: Copying theme failed!\e[0m" | tee -a $logfile
		fi
	else
		echo -e "\e[91mSplashscreen: Themes folder doesn't exist!\e[0m" | tee -a $logfile
	fi
else
	echo -e "\e[93mplymouth is not installed.\e[0m" | tee -a $logfile
fi

lavolp3

@sdetweil Interesting, so it is currently only present on new installations. Updaters from earlier install don’t get this paticular upgrade.
I guess I really need to take some time to look into your script and use it for future updates.
Thanks for the explanations!

sdetweil

@lavolp3 correct. Only installed during initial install.

I didn’t create the installer script, only updated it and made it handle more environments.
Like the node/npm installs used to be one thing, they are separated now.
The old code installed node. And then failed cause npm wasn’t installed.

The pm2 install was hard coded to one is platform. I fixed that.

It only handled one screensaver config. I fixed that.

And added logging.

Then I made an upgrade script

The upgrade script does what you would do.
Download the code, npm install. And then npm install in all the active module folders where there is a package.json file

AxLed

i had the same issue with a clean install of MM on raspian buster.
For manually setting the MM bootscreen this worked for me:

cd /usr/share/plymouth/themes/
sudo mkdir MagicMirror

sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/splash.png /usr/share/plymouth/themes/MagicMirror/splash.png
sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.plymouth
sudo cp ~/MagicMirror/splashscreen/MagicMirror.script /usr/share/plymouth/themes/MagicMirror/MagicMirror.script

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R MagicMirror

AxLED

sdetweil

@AxLed that is what the install script does