Marquee file not available
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I have everything setup as described in the instructions and have both p5-full set and Video_Marquees_V1.1 in the home/tty2pi folder on the the pi, the mister and pi do see each other but for some reason every core or arcade game I select gives me the "Marquee file not available" splash screen.
I have left the paths as default as I just transferred everything into the existing folders, I even moved the menu pic and mp4 to the same folders and they don't show up either.
Am I missing something obvious?
Did you do a manual installation or the premade image?
I did some updates and changes the last days, even regarding on how to handle commands and media files that you may need to update. Just download and execute the updater which pulls the last changes. If in doubt, reboot RPi, retry loading a core and report.
I tried the manual install to begin with but after updating and running the first command there were two files that failed because they couldn't be found...
I did the fix missing and continued to follow the instructions
Then got strange errors when running the final command!
It was then I decided to use the pre-made image in the end.
I have now managed to get it working,
I followed the instructions and ran into the same issues as before but I rebooted them ran the fix missing and the first command again,
I continued and got the same error when running the update script but after rebooting and running the first command once again everything then ran smoothly
The only issue I have now is that the example menu video and picture do not show but it's no big deal.
I see...But I'm pretty sure that you have missed the line
sudo apt install mc rsync git bc inotify-tools ... see Setting up the Raspberry Pi manual
after updating your Raspberry/Debian. That is okay as that will be made up when running the updater, but is showing some errors regarding "command not found" then.
For the missing menu video and picture: This is intended to be manually done because I don't want to tell the user how to design his folders. Maybe that's too much to ask of a Linux novice and I should predefine and fill this when settings up the first time. I'd be glad for your thoughts about that.
This is a young project made by me and for me, but to share to the public as an alternative to existing marquee solutions and is pretty sure far from mature, especially for Linux beginners. It will only mature through use and suggestions from users.
EDIT: While trying to reproduce your issues I've found a bug in the updater. There was a line missing which executes the "check for missing packages" evaluated before.
Oh I approach all GitHub projects expecting issues, as a natural tinkerer it's a wonderful playground for me 😁
It's been a long time since I manually setup a RPi so I couldn't understand why things were failing when I was following instructions..
Thanks for this project though, after buying a 1680x342 monitor a while ago this was always my aim, I even went through the tty2oled and tty2rgbmatrix projects with the intention of tweaking them to do what this project delivers.
Thank you you have saved me many hours of frustration 😁😁😁
...means that it's running fine now? Any suggestions or critics left?
I'm sure that a display of 1680x342 will be fine as a marquee. Mine is a 1280x390 and I'm very glad of it.
I just did an important change for easier setup, which will fall to your attention when doing another run of the updater: folders are now predefined, existing and filled with a handful of media files. This means, that if you are already done with them in whatever name/form, either copy or move my files to your folder, vice versa or just edit and set your media folder in tty2rpi-user.ini by removing the "#" in front of PATHPIC and PATHVID and changing their paths to yours...
It is working for me but only for static images, videos leave just a blank display but I'm not worried as I only wanted static marquees only.
One thing is I first tried this on a pi zero-w and it's painfully slow to load images I would recommend a multi core pi from the off to avoid disappointment.
I'll continue to run and update you on any issues.
Nice to hear, thanks for any feedback.
I also tried any RPi upto RPi3. As expected the slowest was RPi1, followed by Zero (not at hand actually, but isn't it a dual core?), which was slow-ish but acceptable, then RPi 2 and 3. Personally I chose the 3A+ for real life experience and am happy with that.
If you run the update again, don't forget and I've mentioned in #1 (comment) that I've changed the media paths to predefined and filled ones, which are now $HOME/marquee-pictures and $HOME/marquee-videos
Closed due to lack of further feedback.