No autoplay for videos in v2.14 & v2.15

[rudibarani]

Dear all,

my MagicMirror ist running on a Mac Mini and I don’t have any problems when running on v2.13. If I upgrade to v2.14 or v2.15, autoplay of embedded videos is not working anymore. For the curious among you: I like playing a livestream of the ISS on my nighttime-mirror.

The problem occurs with the electron versions that install with each release and are not resolved, if I upgrade electron to its latest version. Adding this line to electron.js did not have a positive effect as well:

app.commandLine.appendSwitch(‘autoplay-policy’, ‘no-user-gesture-required’);

Every module I have tried is affected, e.g. MMM-SmartWebDisplay, MMM-EARTH-Live, yframe, iFrame-Ping…

Did someone else have this problem or does somebody have an idea what I could try do except staying on v2.13?

Thanks!
Phillip

[sdetweil]

@rudibarani said in No autoplay for videos in v2.14 & v2.15:

Adding this line to electron.js did not have a positive effect as well:

this line is already present in electron .js

function createWindow() {
	app.commandLine.appendSwitch("autoplay-policy", "no-user-gesture-required");

I put it there… for 2.10

but according to electron page, they moved support from command line to web preferences
https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/browser-window
so change electron.js like this

function createWindow() {
	let electronOptionsDefaults = {
		width: 800,
		height: 600,
		x: 0,
		y: 0,
		darkTheme: true,
		webPreferences: {
			contextIsolation: true,
			nodeIntegration: false,
			zoomFactor: config.zoom,
			autoplayPolicy: "no-user-gesture-required"     // < --- moved to here 
		},
		backgroundColor: "#000000"
	}

[rudibarani]

@sdetweil said in No autoplay for videos in v2.14 & v2.15:

so change electron.js like this
function createWindow() {
let electronOptionsDefaults = {
width: 800,
height: 600,
x: 0,
y: 0,
darkTheme: true,
webPreferences: {
contextIsolation: true,
nodeIntegration: false,
zoomFactor: config.zoom,
autoplayPolicy: “no-user-gesture-required” // < — moved to here
},
backgroundColor: “#000000”
}

Thank your for the suggestion, Sam. I tried it - but unfortunately without success. Autoplay of the ISS Livestream not starting with any of the modules. It works fine, when I go back to v2.13, though.

http://www.ustream.tv/embed/17074538?html5ui&initial-quality=high&volume=0&autoplay=1

Any additional thoughts would be much appreciated!

[sdetweil]

@rudibarani well, we moved from electron 8 to 11, but only on 2.15

[rudibarani]

@sdetweil said in No autoplay for videos in v2.14 & v2.15:

@rudibarani well, we moved from electron 8 to 11

I do to keep up with the latest version of electron via

npm install electron@latest

as I otherwise get a message saying something like “your browser is outdated” hovering above the ISS stream. The current electron version does autoplay with MagicMirror v2.13 - but not with a newer version of MagicMirror.

[sdetweil]

@rudibarani comment out

contextIsolation: true,

better yet, set it to false

in the web preferences

but that doesn’t explain 2.14

[rudibarani]

@sdetweil Thanks for the idea. This does not seem to cause the problem. Autoplay still refuses to cooperate…

[sdetweil]

@rudibarani if you wave the mouse over the mm screen does it work then?

[rudibarani]

@sdetweil No - I need to click on the “play” button on the stream.