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[jamesfoley]

I'm currently looking at building something that is usable from the command line which runs as a service providing stats to a web interface. Time has been a little tight the last few weeks as I've just moved house, but I plan on ramping up the dev work in the evenings and will hopefully have something that works soonish.

I did write up a small guide which I sent to Dray, but I'm not really a fan of the whole keeping a window in x up all the time, plus I'm terrible at writing 

If someone wants to take my tutorial and re-factor it so its a little easier to follow, let me know.

[Dray]

Given the RPi is solely being used for DSLStats, I don't see the problem with keeping an X window up all the time.

[beardedwonder]

Does anyone know if it's possible to connect the modem to the pi via ethernet and access the pi via wifi usb to get the stats?

[roseway]

Yes, it's possible, but not recommended. You're likely to get intermittent errors caused by glitches in the WiFi connection.

[nivek1612]

I love DSLSTATS on the RPi

Although all attempts to make it auto run on reboot have failed

Any one else managed that
I tried the normal auto run files

[roseway]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by the normal autorun files, but do understand that DSLstats is dependent on a GUI environment, so you can't start it from /etc/init.d or anything like that.

[LaurieR]

I'm a complete RPi noob. I tried several of the autostart methods described on various websites but none seemed to work - I blamed the fact that some only applied to the original Pi, not the 2, and some didn't work on Jessie (I updated from Wheezy).

Then suddenly I was getting "DSLstats is running already - closing down" on reboot so two autostarts were working! Trouble is, I can't remember what changes I made.

[nivek1612]

Yes I had similar issues

Tried nearly every website guide our there never managed to get it to start clean

Even posted on the Pi forum - no one answered

But eh its a small issue 

[LaurieR]

Grrr. I reinstalled the Pi from Noobs to get rid of the various changes I'd made and forgotten about. So from a clean install I made just the one change - in /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi I added the line "/home/pi/dslstats/dslstats" to file "autostart".

Now on reboot I still get "dslstats already running - shutting down" but I can't see it on the desktop. It is running in the background as I can see it in task manager and mydslwebstats is green, but no GUI window.

[roseway]

When I get some time, I'll look into this, but at the moment all I can suggest is that you start DSLstats manually.

[roseway]

@LaurieR: I think I have a solution (it works here on my RPi mark 2):

1. Remove the dslstats line from /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart/

2. Open Leafpad and create a file called dslstats.desktop as below. Save it in /home/pi/.config/autostart/  (not in the directory mentioned above)

Contents of dslstats.desktop:

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=DSLstats
Exec=/home/pi/dslstats/dslstats

Save this file, then reboot the RPi.

[LaurieR]

I tried that but still get "already running" and no DSLstats window.
Not really a problem though.

[roseway]

All I can think is that something is trying to launch DSLstats from some other source. Have you been experimenting with other autostart methods perhaps? The RPi on which I tested the .desktop method was a nearly new, clean installation. Even with your previous method, I didn't get any "already running" messages; the method simply failed to launch DSLstats.

[nivek1612]

Im away, but will give this a go when I get back

[vic0239]

Contents of dslstats.desktop:

Code: [Select]

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=DSLstats
Exec=/home/pi/dslstats/dslstats


Thank you for the tip. I have implemented this on my Pi 2 Model B and it is working fine. Only snag was that the desktop environment was initialising before the network was up (I’m supposing) and DSLstats complained that it could not check MyDSLWebStats details. I got round this by placing my own script in the ~/.config/autostart/dslstats.desktop file and invoking DSLstats from that after a little sleep time.  Crude I know, but I couldn’t be bothered to code anything more precise to check the network was up.