• Registered: 2006-12-05
  • Posts: 5

Topic: Widget cycling stops

All the widgets seem to work properly, but after about 15-20 min, it stops on one and never goes on to the next one.  Also, the arrow buttons in the control panel will not cycle through the widgets.  This is the case whether it is stuck or not.

Anyone else seen this problem?  I searched the forums, but didn't see anything similar.

Thanks for any help.

-Joe

  • Duane
  • Duane
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  • From: San Diego, CA
  • Registered: 2006-08-24
  • Posts: 8,197

Re: Widget cycling stops

Yes - this is a bug in the current Flash player, which has a memory leak.  There is also an issue with the timing out on a busy network.

I'm testing a new player now, and we'll provide an update once it's ready.

Duane's Website

  • Registered: 2006-12-05
  • Posts: 5

Re: Widget cycling stops

Thanks, Duane.  Look forward to the new code coming out!

-Joe

  • Registered: 2006-12-05
  • Posts: 5

Re: Widget cycling stops

I have created a workaround by writing two scripts:

/usr/chumby/scripts/stop_control_panel
/usr/chumby/scripts/restart_control_panel

and making a slight modification to /usr/chumby/scripts/start_control_panel to save the PID of the chumbyflashplayer.x process in /var/run.

I then put restart_control_panel in the crontab to run every 20 minutes.

If anyone would like to see the changes/additions I made, reply to this thread and I will post them.

-Joe