I did some upgrade on this project. I made it so that once there is any new images come in, the fbi will restart the slideshow by itself. But it doesn't stop the previous one, there are more than one slideshow playing on the screen. So my question is, is there any fbi command that I can use to first...

If I use a cronjob to update the list of images I want to display, does fbi auto restart the slideshow as long as it finds newer images?

AndyD wrote:I suspect it is a permission problem. When no one is logged in on the console all the ttys belong to root. Try running your command using sudo to see if it works.

Yes, sudo works.
One more question, how do I remotely stop the slideshow via PuTTY? I didn't see this command from the help menu.

Ant232 wrote:It did work for me though..

I got an error, ioctl vt_activate operation not permitted

I tried with this command Then I got an error,

Hi! I will give a try on this command. Mind telling me what does T do in this command? And what number 1 does in this command?

Thanks!

Ant232 wrote:Hi,

Try using

fbi -T 1 (and then the rest of you command)

The -T 1 should let you start it from putty.

Ant

I am developing a project using Pi. One of the objects is using Pi to display image slideshow on a TV in the lobby of my building. I read some articles about using fbi or pqiv, I don't think either of these two options work. The reason is, once the Pi is being hooked to the TV, it needs to stay ther...