MMM-GooglePhotos suddenly stopped working this morning

Jabl0

@sdetweil Ah, right! Learnt something new :) I am using the other one. One more thing, i did enable debugging yesterday and for some strange reason i have not seen the black screen since i have done this. Fingers crossed though.

I did see these errors:

Invalid SOS parameters for sequential JPEG

But the module kept running fine with no black screen.

I would like to use your version, will i have to completely remove the module and clone yours instead, or is there a quicker way to migrate?

Thanks.

sdetweil

@Jabl0 just rename the module folder out of the way
and install mine in its place. only change config for new parms if you want to use them

Jabl0

@sdetweil Legend! Thanks :)

Jabl0

said in MMM-GooglePhotos suddenly stopped working this morning:

@sdetweil Legend! Thanks :)

@sdetweil its been a few days and that black screen keeps persisting. Using your fork and the original one.

I am not seeing much from the logs, im keeping an eye on temperature as well. I do have over 3000 photos though. Dont know if that is an issue.

I’d appreciate if you can help me with this.

Let me know what i need to provide in order to be able to get this resolved.

Thanks :)

sdetweil

@Jabl0 did you add

debug:true,

to the module config, and add MMM-Logext

you should see logging where npm start is done

Jabl0

@sdetweil yes I did. That’s where have been checking the past few days and all the images load just fine, even when it goes black which why im baffled. Is there anything else I should be looking for in the logs?

I use pm2 logs to see the logs btw.

I also check in dmesg

sdetweil

@Jabl0 ok, good. ill relook thru the code, i had a similar problem with a similar module on another mirror platform, was an out of memory problem.

wont be able to get to that til this afternoon.

Jabl0

@sdetweil I appreciate it. It’s late my side anyway. I will check back in tomorrow.

Jabl0

@sdetweil just to give you an update. I increased my swap space from 512 to 2048.

Still same issue.

I am using a different module all together, MMM-BackgroundSlideshow.

Still same issue.

I am running my pi caseless now to stay in the normal temp range.

Still same issue.

I’m yet to monitor my RAM and CPU usage when it crashes, but I’m suspecting my Pi is not powerful enough to run these modules.

So I do not think there are any bugs in your code causing the black screen.

I will keep digging to see what is causing this. It was working fine when I was using the Google Photos module.

sdetweil

@Jabl0 thanks for the info,

there were two issues in older code

loaded too many images into browser, slow creep. this is working storage size. i think this is fixed, but the failure seems indicative
a bad image, which caused a hang but not black screen

i will add the memory space debugging to this module, will let you know for update