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not starting automatically #2

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foocp opened this issue Aug 7, 2014 · 5 comments
Open

not starting automatically #2

foocp opened this issue Aug 7, 2014 · 5 comments

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@foocp
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foocp commented Aug 7, 2014

Hi,I really like your script but I had some problems with it. It didn't start automatically.
sudo bash autostart.sh gave the error
"-bash: videoloop: command not found"
service videoloop start produced:
"Starting system videoloop daemon:start-stop-daemon: unable to open pidfile '/var/run/videoloop.pid' for writing (Permission denied)
."

My experience is limited but this command fixed it for me (seems I needed to create startup links)
sudo update-rc.d videoloop defaults

I'm using the latest build of Raspbian, 2014-06-20.

@foocp
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foocp commented Aug 7, 2014

Oops, I'm now seeing that that line is included in install.sh, but it's commented out. I suggest you remove that hash.

@RichShumaker
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@foocp is this issue closed? My experience with version 3.0 is different as it worked right out of the box.

@foocp
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foocp commented Mar 2, 2015

Hmm, it's still commented out!
#update-rc.d videoloop defaults
Where do you see a version number?

@RichShumaker
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I am downloading the images and not doing a github pull and should have said that.
When you go to Steven's Blog page where he blogged about VideoLooper 2 - http://stevenhickson.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/rpi-video-looper-20.html
the file you download is videoloop3.zip
I have downloaded the original looper from Tim, http://www.timschwartz.org/raspberry-pi-video-looper/
Then I downloaded Steven's Videolooper and Videolooper 2, then I was downloading it again recently and noticed it is videolooper 3 now.
It seems like more things are in the configlooper.txt file but I may be wrong as I did not use USB in the past so that may have been here from day one.
On a side note I have tested it and it works on a Model A, Model B and I need to try it on a B+, I have not tried it on a A+ or a RasPi 2 as I don't own those yet.

Hope that helps and I apologize for the confusion.

@RichShumaker
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YOU ARE SPOT ON.
I did an install from Scratch and that line is commented out.
The image autoboots and autoruns right into the videos folder on USB or videos folder on the home/pi directory.

How can we do a pull request to change that?

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