pi 3B+

uname -a output

Linux raspberrypi 5.10.103-v7+ #1529 SMP Tue Mar 8 12:21:37 GMT 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux

How do I post the log? Far too large to go into a post, and isn’t a support file type to attach.

Error on my part… I still have the upgraded directory.

There is no info from the logs that I can tell that shows any sort of crash or anything. And the line from the npm logs just shows the run-start.sh command.

My MM install has been running reasonably well for a while and I have not pushed any updates to it in probably 18 months. I recently applied the most recent updates for Raspbian and things were still running correctly for maybe around a week.

Yesterday, I decided I was going to attempt an upgrade using one of the scripts. So, I did an rsync of the running directory to a second directory on the local device then ran the upgrade script.

Upon starting the mirror, it started complaining about an out-of-date module (MMM-ImagesPhotos). That module wasn’t installed from the original source, so updating it was not going to be something I could do without a bunch of research. So, I stopped the mirror, did an rm-rf on the MM directory, then renamed the backup directory back to its original name.

I -thought- it was running properly, but today it keeps restarting Chromium browser every minute or two. Where do I even begin?

@MMRIZE Thanks for the pointer.

Why wouldn’t I use the “Outline” option? That seems like it would achieve the result I’m after as well?

Also, I have absolutely no clue where or how to implement these changes. Working my way through CSS and such is an immensely trial-and-error process for me that tends to requires hours of “Developer Console” type access through a browser trying to chase down the files involved, tinkering with changes, and often times not actually getting the result I want without at least breaking one other thing.

@sdetweil While a “dynamic” solutions sounds like it would be great, I don’t see it as being terribly feasible.

Every photo that loads would have to be analyzed to determine something like a ‘brightness level’ or similar. Below a value gets a dark font, above a value gets a light font. That would have to map to regions on the screen since one picture could have multiple areas that are above and below that particular level.

Then, you’d have to assess the relationship between the area in the photo and the actual area where the text would be placed, taking into account different placements for text size, string length, wrap, etc.

Just seems like a two color font would address it more simply. Or some sort of way to “outline” text with a different color than the color of the font itself.

@sdetweil said in Two color font?:

@ember1205 I want it to handle that dynamically

In what way?

My mirror is part digital photo frame and part info display tool. The photos are shown in random order and are all full screen.

The info sections are all currently using various shades of gray fonts which are easy to see when the photo area “behind them” is darker. When the photo area is fairly light, however, the text is unreadable.

I’m wondering if there’s either a two color font (gray with a black outline or similar) or a way to render an outline around all of the font characters that are currently being shown. I’d want this to apply to all text sections in the mirror if I could do it.

@sdetweil

As long as you got it all fixed, then it was a good day!

@sdetweil

Now I have to find something else to break… sigh… :)

@sdetweil

Seems to be working reliably. Even why I simply do a “shutdown now” without any of my shutdown process items, it starts up correctly.