Dashticz 3.8.1 Beta

[Lokonli]

Dashticz 3.8.1 beta is a small update with improved auto slide behavior.

The auto-slide time out can be defined for each screen individually. It's also possible to skip screens during auto-slide.

I've changed the default values for some config parameters. So, if your screens show unexpected behavior, read the documentation:

https://dashticz.readthedocs.io/en/beta ... auto-slide

[Chris12]

@lokonli, Thanks for this new feature.

I noticed some different behavior in the slider buttons, when I hover over this buttons with my mouse (not clicking it), the pages in dashticz will quickly rotate. As a matter of fact, if I move my mouse anywhere in the dashticz screen, the screens start rotating every few seconds.

I disabled the new auto-slide config part

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//screens[1]['auto_slide_page'] = 45;

but the quicly scrolling page issue remains (browser: FF latest beta, and in GC latest as well).

edit: also when adding extra single quote to the screen rotate value, the issue remains

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//screens[1]['auto_slide_page'] = '45';

[Lokonli]

@lokonli, Thanks for this new feature.

I noticed some different behavior in the slider buttons, when I hover over this buttons with my mouse (not clicking it), the pages in dashticz will quickly rotate. As a matter of fact, if I move my mouse anywhere in the dashticz screen, the screens start rotating every few seconds.

I disabled the new auto-slide config part

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//screens[1]['auto_slide_page'] = 45;

but the quicly scrolling page issue remains (browser: FF latest beta, and in GC latest as well).

edit: also when adding extra single quote to the screen rotate value, the issue remains

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//screens[1]['auto_slide_page'] = '45';

What do you have in CONFIG.js for the following settings:
config['auto_slide_pages']
config['auto_swipe_back_after']
config['auto_swipe_back_to']

And what kind of behavior do you try to achieve?

[Chris12]

In my config:

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config['auto_swipe_back_to'] = '1';
config['auto_swipe_back_after'] = '0';
config['auto_slide_pages'] = '30';

The above values I have not changed.

What I'm trying to achieve, is to rotate my 6 screens where screen 1,4 and screen 6 are set to 45 seconds
and screen 5 is set to 10 seconds. For screen 2 and 3 no auto_slide_page is defined, so those should take the default of 30 seconds isn't it?

[Lokonli]

In the current version you have to set 'auto_swipe_back_after' to an initial timeout value. In your case for instance 30.

Auto slide will start after this timeout value, and then slide directly to the next page. So, if it's set to 0, it will continously slide to the next page every second, while your are moving your mouse.

But indeed, that behavior is not logical.

I'll make a fix, and use auto_swipe_back_after + auto_slide_pages before sliding to the next page.

[Lokonli]

In my config:

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config['auto_swipe_back_to'] = '1';
config['auto_swipe_back_after'] = '0';
config['auto_slide_pages'] = '30';

The above values I have not changed.

What I'm trying to achieve, is to rotate my 6 screens where screen 1,4 and screen 6 are set to 45 seconds
and screen 5 is set to 10 seconds. For screen 2 and 3 no auto_slide_page is defined, so those should take the default of 30 seconds isn't it?

Fixed in latest beta. Could you retest?

[Chris12]

I just tested it, and timed the pages. It is working as configured

Thanks for fixing this!

[Chris12]

Another thing noticed in the latest 3.8.1 beta (and previous 3.8.1 beta), of my 5 news feeds (rss) configured on a page, only the first upper 3 are shown.
The other 2 (lower ones) have no info, but when hovering with my mouse I can see both parts are configured as that part lights-up.

I tested the feeds, they're showing info in my browser.
It seems that the feeds which have an .xml extension are not working anymore (tested it by moving the not working feed to the top, still no info shown).
For example "https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/rss.xml" or "https://www.ad.nl/home/rss.xml"

[Lokonli]

Another thing noticed in the latest 3.8.1 beta (and previous 3.8.1 beta), of my 5 news feeds (rss) configured on a page, only the first upper 3 are shown.
The other 2 (lower ones) have no info, but when hovering with my mouse I can see both parts are configured as that part lights-up.

I tested the feeds, they're showing info in my browser.
It seems that the feeds which have an .xml extension are not working anymore (tested it by moving the not working feed to the top, still no info shown).
For example "https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/rss.xml" or "https://www.ad.nl/home/rss.xml"

On my systems all news feeds are working.

The news block makes use of the PHP CORS proxy. Is PHP configured correctly?
Which PHP version is reported by Dashticz?

If you open DevTools in Chrome, and refresh Dashticz, do you then see any error in the DevTools Network tab or console tab?

[Chris12]

Hi, @Lokonli

My PHP version is 7.4.9.

What do you mean by configured PHP correctly? I reinstalled my complete Synology NAS from scratch last week, due to some strange issues with MariaDB which synology support could also not solve. So maybe I missed some settings for PHP ?
I was previously running PHP 5.6, and had the same PHP extensions enabled which are now enabled for PHP7.4

I tried to look at errors in the dev mode using chrome, but could only see some error releated to a not working coinmarket piece of config (503 service missing). I could see the earlier mentioned rss feeds being loaded with a status 200.

[Lokonli]

Do these rss feeds also contain reponse data?

[Chris12]

I checked using dev. mode:

http://192.168.1.11/dashticz/vendor/das ... me/rss.xml
does not have any data (0 Bytes)

The other working rss feed like:
http://192.168.1.11/dashticz/vendor/das ... enland/rss
do have data

[Lokonli]

I checked using dev. mode:

http://192.168.1.11/dashticz/vendor/das ... me/rss.xml
does not have any data (0 Bytes)

The other working rss feed like:
http://192.168.1.11/dashticz/vendor/das ... enland/rss
do have data

The second one is working, so that means your cors proxy is working as well.

I guess it's related to the PHP modules on your Synology, or maybe your ssl certificate.

Did you activate the following PHP modules on your Synology:
* curl
* openssl

[Chris12]

Yes, these are both enabled.

I have installed PHP5.6 as well (to test), enabled the same modules as before (and the same enabled for the PHP7.4 profile).
But as well the rss feeds with the .xml as not showing information.

[Chris12]

Finally I found the issue and solved it

I had updated my Pi-hole last week as well and cleaned some whitelist entries, which seems to be not OK and lived there for ages.
As the site ad.nl has offcourse a very high advertising word blocking trigger for pi-hole, I now added the following whitelist entry in pi-hole for ad.nl (newspaper)

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^(.+\.)?ad\.nl$

Now the .xml rss feeds are working again.

Next I have to figure out if I can limit the regex further, because advertisements from within the ad.nl domain are now possible.