USB drive isn't mounted automatically

[foocp]

I think the script needs sudo mkdir /media/USB sudo mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/sda1 /media/USB

plus we need it to automatically add a line to the file system table: sudo nano /etc/fstab

add the line: /dev/sda1 /media/USB vfat uid=pi,gid=pi 0 0

I'd amend the scripts myself, but (sorry) my scripting skills are very limited. I'd love it if your RPiVideoLooper would be widely used instead of expensive and buggy 'media players'.

[RichShumaker]

2nd Note Added I just noticed that fstab on the looper uses USB here is the exact format /dev/sda1 /media/USB ntfs-3g defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0

Note Added usb not USB the code calls for lower case usb. I have not completed fixing mine yet but that seems to be an issue

Original Below I ran into the same issue when I built from scratch. You can set the USB=1 BUT you get an error on screen as it is not defined.

So the above code did not work for me and I got this error root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# mkdir /media/USB root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/sda1 /media/USB mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

When using the image file it worked fine.

I had a similar problem BUT with version 3.0 of the software you can change the looperconfig.txt file with USB=0 to USB=1 and it will use the USB instead of the memory chip. Now you need to make sure you put a folder on the USB called videos and put the videos inside that for it to work.

[RichShumaker]

BOOM goes the dynamite. @foocp I was able to get it to work your fstab line was different then the looper version 3 image file. Using the fstab from the version 3 image file it works /dev/sda1 /media/USB ntfs-3g defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0

Now I guess we need to get this line into the install script to add to fstab somehow. Side note make sure you have /media/USB created sudo mkdir /media/USB(listed at the start of this but this will also need to be added to the install script)

[RichShumaker]

This is something I think needs to be put into the installation script is adding sudo mkdir /media/USB and adding this line to fstab /dev/sda1 /media/USB ntfs-3g defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0