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from: HARRY BLOOMFIELD
date: 2018-07-20 10:53:00
subject: Re: Reboot difference - c

Alister formulated on Friday :
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:21:23 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
>
>> I have my R Pi 3 B+ on my LAN, with latest NOOBS, setup to download
>> weather via USB from my weather station and present it as a webpage.
>> During the early hours, I have the Pi configured to do a reboot and
>> reload the software for the weather - that works fine.
>>
>> What I have found, is that if I also reboot via the GUI reboot option,
>> it also loads the weather interface software and it carries on as normal
>>
>> If instead, I type at the command line 'reboot', it doesn't reload the
>> weather software. I have to manually load it all in.
>
> I assume you initialy manualy started the App
>
> Gui's are often configured to remember their current state at shutdown &
> restore it on power up
> the cli reboot command is more aggressive & I suspect this prevents the
> GUI from performing this task
> the correct way to fix this issue is to correctly configure your app to
> auto-run
>
> suggestions on how to achieve this can be fount here :-
> https://www.dexterindustries.com/howto/run-a-program-on-your-raspberry-pi-
> at-startup/

Thanks, I'll look into that.

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