Hi
I’m quite a a newbie at Balena platform. I was following this tutorial to build a photo gallery on my raspberry 4.
I clicked the “deploy with balena” button to create an application in balenaCloud. I booted the raspberry 4 with the image I downloaded from the project. Everything works until I come to the step setting the device variable GALLERY_URL. I set an Apple photo album’s public url to this variable but the application doesn’t restart. After I reboot the device from balenaCloud dashboard, it stuck on splash screen. The photos are never loaded.
On balenaCloud dashboard, I could read:
status: online
device type: Raspberry Pi 4 (using 64bit OS)
host os version: balenaOS 2.73.1+rev1
supervisor version: 12.4.6
I repeated the steps in tutorial and found that: when I click the “deploy with balena” button, balenaCould shows a warning “The balena.yml contract in the repository is invalid”.
The error also shows when I try to do a balena push of this project via balena CLI.
Sorry for the delayed reply @lionhylra, and welcome to the Forums!
I will take a look at the repo this weekend, and try to build one this weekend. It was definitely working a few days ago, but, I’ll check to see if something broke. We’ll get you sorted out and get your Photo Gallery going.
Can confirm the same experience. I’ve previously deployed several very customized applications on Balena, and just this once I got the chance to impress someone by quickly deploying their requested photo display
I haven’t yet done any type of troubleshooting really but “it doesn’t work”…
The balena.yml file has been updated and this project (photo-slideshow) should now build and run successfully. However @lionhylra it does not yet support the Raspberry Pi4 - please use a Pi3 if possible.
Not allowed to write another reply, so… Forget what I just wrote - user error, as always After removing leftover custom variables and just setting GALLERY_URL on the device it now works as expected!
Thanks again for your quick work on fixing the repo!
Hi @alanb128 , I was experimenting on a Pi4, which connects to a 4K TV, and it worked. It’s just the animation of slides are really chunky. Not sure it’s because of Pi4 or the large screen.
