Hello,
I have installed Anthias on four Raspberry Pi 4 devices (directly via the Rasbberry Pi Imager on the SD card).
All devices only run for 2-3 days, after that they show no image or a still image.
What could be the reason for this?
Would it help to install Raspberry Pi OS instead and then Anthias?
Best regards
Dane
Good news, this is much better now. A screen that ran fine for a couple of days and then showed nothing or a frozen image was usually the player’s browser dying (or a page stalling) without recovering. The player now restarts the display on its own: a stalled page can no longer freeze the screen (#3003) and the browser is respawned automatically if it crashes (#3012), both in recent releases. So it recovers by itself rather than needing a reboot every few days. Marking this as solved. If it still happens on the latest release, tell us your setup and we will help.
As a additional thing I do on my pi players is set up a cron job to reboot the units each day to freshen them up when Anthias runs. This has helped a lot.
I wouldn’t recommend that approach at all. You’re adding a lot of extra wear and tear to the SD card and introduce another failure point.
It would be good to actually find the root cause instead. We’ve added a new debug script that can pull information. If you were able to run that as things are getting slower that would hopefully help us zero in on the actual problem.