Silent boot

[skin...@gmail.com]

Hi,
I wondered if its possible to achieve a silent boot, and ideally a splash screen.
There seem to be heaps of different things to do with different distributions. Before I dig in, does anyone know of a magic bullet, or best approach, with KivyPie?
All the best,
Ed

[Albert Casals]

Latest Kivypie version still runs pipaOS based on Jessie. If you download the latest pipaos which runs Stretch,

you'll have a bootup splash image that you can change - /usr/share/pipaos-tools/logos/default.png symlink.

 * http://pipaos.mitako.eu/download/pipaos-stretch-5.0.img.gz

On top of that, you can install the kivy libraries - apt-cache search kivypie - mind you I haven't tested kivypie libs on stretch myself yet :-)

Albert

[skin...@gmail.com]

Cool, I'll give it a whirl, thanks Albert...

[skin...@gmail.com]

Hi there.

Love the default splash screen, very funny ;-)

Steps I took to get kivy on pipaos-stretch-5.0.img working:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2-kivypie python3-kivypie python-kivypie-examples
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install docutils
apt-get install libmtdev1

This loads the app fine from the command line (though I haven't fully tested everything yet)

Unfortunately I can't get rc.local to start the app anymore. I made it executable:

sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local

and added the line:

usr/bin/python /home/sysop/main.py &

On booting, the log shows rc.local trying to run it, but there is a critical error: [App   ] Unable to get a window, abort.

Any ideas?

[michele]

Hi,

with the standard kivy-pie i made a custom boot screen following this guide:

https://yingtongli.me/blog/2016/12/21/splash.html

In my case is working.

hope the same for you!

Michele