autoboot not really working

[Sandy Ressler]

So I want to start openframe on boot. I've tried lots of manual methods like changing crontab, copying autoboot.sh to /etc/init.d and updating the init daemon.

And added autoboot.sh as the last line of .bashrc the first two don't do anything. Modifying .bashrc causes openframe to start when I open up a terminal NOT on boot. Sooo I gave up with the manual methods and figured I'd reset the frame "openframe -r" and start from scratch...that seems to just modify .bashrc and behaves the same as the manual method it only starts openfram when I openup a terminal window.

Any clues? I suspect the raspberry behavior may have changed?  

thanks..Sandy

(PS I did not remove the old frame from the web app ...I figure this is a raspberry issue and don't see why that should matter)

[Jonathan Wohl]

Could be a change in Raspbian, I haven't done a fresh install in quite a while and there were a couple other issues reported recently.

Do you have your Pi setup up to boot to console and to auto-login? (Step 2 here.) This is required in order for Openframe to autoboot, since it does so as part of the .bashrc execution, as you probably saw...

[Sandy Ressler]

Hmmm that might be it didn't do that...in the mean time I seem to have hosed it all up can't even run openframe correctly...think I gotta wipe my raspberry and start it all from scratch...FUN ;-(

thanks..Sandy

[Sandy Ressler]

Well you were right (as usual) had to boot to console and autologin...now works like a champ on reboot. After the wipe and reinstall an issue I was having with it hanging a lot might have disappeared also (hopefully) ..when communication is interrupted to the frame it says retrying but it just hung (this happened a lot..less so now..will see how long it lasts) ..anyway here's a pic of the monster just for fun! The whole point being more ways to display pix of grandson ;-)

[Jonathan Wohl]

Oh good! That's a nice big frame for grandson photos :D. 

Regarding the communication being interrupted — we've found that a strong WiFi signal makes a difference, with an ethernet cable being better yet. Not sure if that's a possibility for you (it obviously adds another cable to run, which is less than ideal).