xplanet-background

I also got it working on an xperia x compact, but it's very hard for me making an rpm out of that. Always the hardest part for me is making an rpm

Not compatible with the new Sailfish OS 3.4.0.x. This only applies to new installs. As in this version you are not user nemo anymore, but defaultuser : https://together.jolla.com/question/228946/sailfish-os-340-around-the-co...

And that breaks this ambience script, as it has nemo hardcoded everywhere. And that is totally understandable. I have done this also. So for people with clean installed 3.4.0 version, will have to edit multiple scripts. When you upgrade from a lower version, the user nemo is still the active user.

And also, on my ExperiaX10Plus the autodetection of screen resolution is not working, as I do not have the file /sys/class/graphics/fb0/modes

ls -la /sys/class/graphics
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Jan 31 23:12 .
drwxr-xr-x   93 root     root             0 Jan 31 23:12 ..

In the end, I got it working by manually editing the files and change nemo for defaultuser. Still hardcoded.

Not sure how to fix in your package.

Tricky weird error.

First off this needs libgif7 installed (also on Openrepos) for the XA2.

Once it's installed, it works fine, but editing the xplanet.sysconfig kills it. All I change is body earth to body moon, and that causes the following errors;

<code>

[nemo@Sailfish xplanet]$ systemctl --user status xplanet.service
● xplanet.service - A live image generator of Solar System objects
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xplanet.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-05-11 09:19:08 CEST; 46s ago
  Process: 10634 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xplanet $XPLANET_OPTIONS -prev_command ${XPLANET_PREV} -post_command ${XPLANET_POST} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 10634 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

[nemo@Sailfish xplanet]$ xplanet
Error: Can't open display
Exiting from getDisplay.cpp at line 47

</code>

Restoring the default doesn't help, I have to uninstall and reinstall it to restore it, but can't change any defaults. Is there something else to try?

What did you coange in the configuration files beyond the paths to the images? Reason I ask is that I had a fairly tightly tuned config file and was happy with 1.3.1-8, and I'd like to reproduce what I had with it without reinventing the wheel. I'd stick with 1.3.1-8 except that everytime I visit OpenRepos it insists on upgrading. The changelog is good, but if the sonfiguration files have changed, a useful changelog would tell how they've changed so that we can modify our earlier working ones. I'm hoping it's only the paths.

Perfect on my oneplusx
Thanks

Oh, man. Saw update on OpenRepos, told it to update. Now my Xperia X won't boot beyond the word Xplanet. Won't even make it to login screen. No Idea how I'm going to dig out of this.

In any case: YOU MUST DELETE THE PREVIOUS VERSION BEFORE INSTALLING THE LATEST UPDATE OR YOU WILL LIKELY RENDER YOUR DEVICE UNUSABLE!

Update: I've been at this for five hours, simply trying to get my device to the login screen after update, and still no joy. I've been in recovery mode most of that time, deleting all of xplanet and xplanet-background i can find. Still no joy.

Finally solved. Required deleting the xplanet stuff from /usr/share/ambiences, renaming a different ambience xplanet. Could then boot, delete xplanet and xplanet-background, and reinstall them. Ugh, but at least it ultimately worked.

For an uncropped picture on an Xperia X, the command parameters should include --radius 25 --geometry 2048x2048 though this means, sadly, that the labels listing body, time, etc., are off the screen.

It would be good to know how to change the frequency parameter. For Earth, 10 minutes makes sense, but for the Moon, probably once an hour is sufficient, and for, say, Saturn, often once a day would be enough unless you're following its moons and such. Is the refresh frequency hard-coded or is it in one of the configuration files?

Hello
I have a problem with the installation, I get the following error:
"File" ./core/armv7hl/Icms-1.19-1.1.1.armv7hl.rpm 'not found on medium' https://releases.jolla.com/releases/2.2.1.18/jolla/armv7hl/ '

I am using Sailfish version 2.2.1.18 installed on SONY Xperia X. Please help me how to install applications.

I've used xplanet doing moon phases -- hourly update -- on my KDE/TDE desktop machines for more than a decade, but I can't get it to work at all on my Xperia X running the latest Sailfish X. I'm clearly doing something wrong here. It doesn't generate an image in ~/Pictures/Jolla.

UPDATE: Here's what results from a test run:

$systemctl --user start xplanet.service
Job for xplanet.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status xplanet.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

$ systemctl status xplanet.service
● xplanet.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

$ journalctl -xe
No journal files were found.
-- No entries --

and finally:

$ systemctl --user status xplanet.service
● xplanet.service - A live image generator of Solar System objects
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xplanet.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-10-17 11:38:11 EDT; 7min ago
Process: 10387 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xplanet $XPLANET_OPTIONS -prev_command ${XPLANET_PREV} -post_command ${XPLANET_POST} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 10387 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

So it seems as if there needs to be a little documentation as to how we might install and configure the thing! Or else it doesn't work with the current Sailfish X.

btw, running xplanet alone renders an image to the ~/ directory. So it seems as if xplanet works just fine, for a one-shot.

FYI: I have changed the size of the image to 2048x2048 pixels. As this is the image size off all other ambience pictures. Maybe update it in your script? The original size is for me to low, and shows black borders. It does not scale up.

Secondly I removed the xplanet name in /usr/share/ambience/xplanet/xplanet2.ambience file. Else every 10 min I see the name on my phone. Now it is 'hidden;

And you could add an extra script with the following contents and run it in the XPLANET_PREV variable. It will update the clouds every 3 hours:

#!/bin/sh
# more info https://github.com/apollo-ng/cloudmap/

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
CLOUDS="/home/nemo/Pictures/Jolla/clouds.jpg"

# Get latest remote checksum
ORIGINSHA=$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apollo-ng/cloudmap/master/global.sha256 --no-cache -q -O - | awk {'print $1;'})

# Generate local checksum
if [ -e "$CLOUDS" ];
then
    LOCALSHA=$(sha256sum "$CLOUDS" | awk {'print $1;'})
fi

# Check if we're behind origin
if [ "${ORIGINSHA}" != "${LOCALSHA}" ];
then

    # Download raw global.jpg from master
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apollo-ng/cloudmap/master/global.jpg?${ORIGINSHA} --no-cache -q -O global.jpg

    # Generate checksum of downloaded file
    NEWSHA=$(sha256sum global.jpg | awk {'print $1;'})

    # Check if download's chksum corresponds to origin
    if [ "$NEWSHA" == "$ORIGINSHA" ];
    then
        mv global.jpg "$CLOUDS"
    else
        rm global.jpg
    fi
fi

great job! I have 2 questions:

1)how to change ringer volume?

2)how to edit the background image since it appears too streched.

thanks keep up the great work.

Guya, how do I add clouds or change planets? Thank you in advance

very good work :)