Thread: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen
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achilles333 is offline achilles333
2012-06-13 , 17:13
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Originally Posted by thp View Post
Which version of Billboard are you using? How many lines of text do you want to display? There's a hard limit of possible lines in order to avoid screen burn in.
I'm using 1.0.1 version. My script outputs only one line of text.

Originally Posted by thp View Post
Yes, the script is invoked with a 1000ms time limit in order to avoid "hangs" by badly coded scripts. Output is captured from stdout.
Isn't 1 sec is too small window ?. wget commands mostly takes more than 1 sec(depending on network latencies). Can you increase this interval to 3000ms or configurable(configurable but not changeable beyond certain value)


Originally Posted by thp View Post
Caching the data is actually a good idea, and you should do that in general (e.g. also in cases where there is no internet connection). Also saves battery power.
Agreed!. I also updated my script to check only if internet is connected.
Last edited by achilles333; 2012-06-13 at 17:16.