Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
EyeCandy and out-of-memory
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@njw said in EyeCandy and out-of-memory:
I found that with a particular image selected (37)
So, the issue is specific to that selection? I didn’t do long term testing on every image(url). That would have been more time than I was willing to give to this module. Frankly, I’m surprised anyone is even using it. No one has reported any problems with the module, until now, with you.
Let see how things go with the new electron version and the GL drivers. In the meantime, thanks for your interest and accept my apologies for the trouble you’re having, if the module happens to be at fault.
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I also used eye candy! it’s great! but unfortunately, yeah, it runs up the memory, and in my case crashes the display… I have since commented out the plugin in my config, but that plugin is top shelf man! love it!!
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@Mykle1 I realize it’s not the most … informative… of modules, but I was playing around with the idea of combining it with face recognition, to show the freakish eye when it’s someone it doesn’t recognize :).
This was with the new electron version and the GL drivers. I had some of the other eye candy URLs on the screen for a day or so, playing around and no issue. However, just that particular selection it would crash in about 10 minutes. Weird. Possibly the memory usage was high on the others - I didn’t do any debug until it broke, of course.
I’m happy to play around with more debugging.
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By all means, do what you will with it, and most of all, have fun! :-)
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Also have to remember that the pi is limited in just about every way…
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Especially remember that electron and gifs are really a bad combination especially on the raspeberry pi since it does not use hardware acelleration :unamused_face:
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I had thought about using an intervalTimer which showed a list of images in succession, but I think that would be worse than a GIF for the Raspi. :zipper-mouth_face:
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@chef i have been using MMM-ImagesPhotos or MMM-ImageSlideshow and don’t see the out of memory issue… don’t have any gifs in the image list tho
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When you directly display MM2 on your raspberrypi you could do an overlay with omxplayer. it supports hardware acceleration which makes it run really smooth with gifs
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@maxbachmann that’s a really great idea. I noticed that is how some of the Security Camera MM2 modules work.
