RPiVideoLooper
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StevenHickson
not starting automatically
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.
Oops, I'm now seeing that that line is included in install.sh, but it's commented out. I suggest you remove that hash.
@foocp is this issue closed? My experience with version 3.0 is different as it worked right out of the box.
Hmm, it's still commented out! #update-rc.d videoloop defaults Where do you see a version number?
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.
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?