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paddywwoof edited this page Mar 14, 2021 · 11 revisions

Running As Service on Pi3

The example shows how to run PictureFrame as systemd user service on a pi3.

mkdir ~/.config/systemd/user/ -p
nano ~/.config/systemd/user/picframe.service
[Unit]
Description=PictureFrame on Pi3

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/pi/.local/bin/picframe ~/picframe_data/config/configuration.yaml
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Controlling the service on Pi3

You have the following options:

  • Enable service systemctl --user enable picframe.service
  • Disable service systemctl --user disable picframe.servcie
  • Start service systemctl --user start picframe.service
  • Stop service systemctl --user stop picframe.service
  • Stop restart systemctl --user restart picframe.service
  • Check logfiles journalctl --user-unit picframe.service

This works for autlogin to console or GUI.

If you want to start PictureFrame without autologin use loginctl enable-linger pi. Assuming 'pi' is your username. To disable it run loginctl disable-linger pi

Running As Service on Pi4

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/picframe.service
[Unit]
Description=Pi3D on Pi4
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=idle

User=root
ExecStart=xinit /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/picframe_data/run_start.py /home/pi/picframe_data/config/configuration.yaml

#Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Controlling the service on Pi4

You have the following options:

  • Enable service sudo systemctl enable picframe.service
  • Disable service sudo systemctl disable picframe.servcie
  • Start service sudo systemctl start picframe.service
  • Stop service sudo systemctl stop picframe.service
  • Stop restart sudo systemctl restart picframe.service
  • Check logfiles sudo journalctl picframe.service

For Pi 4 the service needs to be controlled by root e. g. sudo systemctl enable picframe.service etc

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