# Anthias works only 2-3 days on Raspberry Pi 4

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**Category:** Anthias\
**Created:** [July 18, 2024, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/anthias-works-only-2-3-days-on-raspberry-pi-4/1483 "2024-07-18T07:07:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![dane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@dane](https://forums.screenly.io/u/dane)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/anthias-works-only-2-3-days-on-raspberry-pi-4/1483/1 "2024-07-18T07:07:59Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![vpetersson](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.screenly.io/vpetersson/32/8_2.png) [@vpetersson](https://forums.screenly.io/u/vpetersson)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/anthias-works-only-2-3-days-on-raspberry-pi-4/1483/2 "2026-06-09T15:15:23Z")

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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](https://github.com/Screenly/Anthias/pull/3003)) and the browser is respawned automatically if it crashes ([#3012](https://github.com/Screenly/Anthias/pull/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.

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**Author:** ![extremeskillz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/439d5e/32.png) [@extremeskillz](https://forums.screenly.io/u/extremeskillz)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/anthias-works-only-2-3-days-on-raspberry-pi-4/1483/3 "2026-06-18T14:20:06Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![vpetersson](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.screenly.io/vpetersson/32/8_2.png) [@vpetersson](https://forums.screenly.io/u/vpetersson)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.screenly.io/t/anthias-works-only-2-3-days-on-raspberry-pi-4/1483/4 "2026-06-18T14:23:55Z")

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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](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Screenly/Anthias/76b6754afa1be88413c75e54669df8505bc1c33f/bin/collect_debug.sh) 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.