Re: 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 with GkrellKam not updating

On Saturday 18 October 2008, Rick Kunath wrote:

Any progress on this problem? I have an interest in this even though I am not 
experiencing the problem, I have not updated in a while and if I do update 
and the problem occurs it would be nice to be 'armed and ready' :)


> Comments inline...
> 
> io wrote:
> > I don't know if this helps any or not, but I run Gentoo x86_64 with 
GKrellM 
> > 2.3.1  and GKrellkam 2.0.0 and my Gkrellkam plugin is working just fine 
with 
> > 2 images constantly updating. I did nothing special to the main program or 
> > the plugin. 
> > 
> > Another thing which may have a bearing on this is I am not using a cam but 
> > rather in one window cycling photos, and the other one displaying 
downloaded 
> > weather radar updates. During hurricane season I use a 3rd window to track 
> > the path of a particular storm.
> 
> I'm doing something similar. I have 5 windows setup and load one webcam 
> image, the next 3 are local weather images, and the last is a national 
> weather image. I've been using these particular images for many years. 
> All are set to update every 3 minutes.
> 
> > When my boss ran a weather cam, I had a window updating from it but again 
it 
> > was downloading images rather than direct stream from a camera.
> 
> Same here, all are images as displayed on web pages for the devices, not 
> a stream.
> 
> > I suggest setting up some static photos and have it cycle through them to 
see 
> > if that works. If it does then I suspect the problem is with the camera 
> > images being displayed.. maybe they change ownership or permissions so 
> > krellkam cannot read them? This may be especially true if pressing the 
reread 
> > image listing button in the krellkam config changes the image and then it 
> > does not change again.
> 
> I don't think there is anything going on with the sources. I still have 
> several old Mandriva 2007.1 installations going and all use the same 
> setup. These have Gkrellm 2.2.9. None of them have the issue with 
> displaying the images as scheduled, either updating, or displaying them 
> in Gkrellm. My installs of later Mandriva are all 32-bit. I can have 
> them going side by side and the newer Gkrellm versions do not update or 
> display reliably.
> 
> When the images come up in Gkrellm as gray and blank, a click inside the 
> image opens the actual image in the external viewer. In this case 
> Gkrellm correctly downloaded the image, just wouldn't display it inside 
> the Gkrellm app. Other times, the images don't update as they should. 
> Even if you center click in the image window in Gkrellm to force one. 
> Sometimes this center click does force an update. Other times, a relog 
> and the app comes up and refreshes the image, but it won't reliably keep 
> refreshing it and displaying it like the older version of Gkrellm does. 
> The old version worked flawlessly over the years. I never had problems.
> 
> > I have found that occasionally the displayed image only shows a partial 
image 
> > while clicking on it shows the completed one. This is due to krellkam 
reading 
> > the image before it is completely written. This may also be your 
situation.
> 
> No, I understand that. And that's  not it at all. In this case, the 
> refresh isn't happening. I can tell because all of the images have a 
> time stamp on them. So I can see the age of the image, check it against 
> the web page that I'm grabbing the image from, or against older Gkrellm 
> installations on older Mandriva releases.
> 
> > Try setting the reading timing so it cannot conflict with the image 
update... 
> > ie... set the image update for even times and krellkam for odd times. this 
> > would minimize the number of mis-reads due to updates.
> 
> I'll definitely take a look at that. But the settings I have now are the 
> same ones, exactly, that I'm using and have used over the years. And a 
> forced update fails to work too.
> 
> I remember reading (I think it was with 2.3.1) about a change to the 
> plugin interface in Gkrellm. I don't know if this has anything to do 
> with what I am seeing or not. I do know that several other distros are 
> seeing the same issue, and it all happened after the update to the 2.3.1 
> version of Gkrellm. Not sure if that is a change somewhere else in the 
> various distros that happened at or around the same time, or something 
> with Gkrellm. I suppose I could always grab a SRPM for the old 2.2.9 
> version of Gkrellm and rebuild that against Mandriva 2008.1 and see if 
> that changes anything.
> 
> I appreciate the advice and any ideas are most appreciated.
> 
> Rick Kunath
> 
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