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from: HARRY BLOOMFIELD
date: 2018-07-20 13:18:00
subject: Re: Reboot difference - c

Alister submitted this idea :
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:53:18 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> actually that link may not be the best in your case
> try https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=139224
> which is more suitable if you are using a gui

Ta!

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