Minim server losing content directory information

[guussie]

(21-11-2014 13:17)simoncn Wrote:  

(21-11-2014 12:23)guussie Wrote:  Hello Simon,

I am running minimserver on a Raspberry Pi in my car.

After I haven't used the car for a while, minim server seems to have lost the contentDir information.

Below is info from the log:

MinimServer 0.8.1, Copyright © 2012, 2013 Simon Nash. All rights reserved.
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_40-b43)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 24.0-b56, mixed mode)
Platform default charset is UTF-8
starting MinimServer
MinimServer: no content directory selected

As the system is in the car, I can't easily run Minimwatch to fix the problem.

I can ssh into the RPi from my phone but it's rather cumbersome.

Is there a way this can be fixed?

Thanks, Guus

MinimServer keeps its property settings in the file minimserver/data/minimserver.config. It sounds like this file has been deleted somehow. MinimServer doesn't delete this file, so something must have happened to the RPi that caused this file to be deleted.

The next release of MinimServer will provide an easy way to fix this by setting the contentDir property from an SSH command prompt. For now, you could do this from an SSH command prompt:

echo "minimserver.contentDir = /path/to/your/content/directory" > /home/pi/minimserver/data/minimserver.config

This assumes that you installed MinimServer in the /home/pi directory.

I removed the system from the car and checked this file already. The file is there but somehow the directory information is missing. The tag information is also set to your default (I originally added Quality and Label tags).

Could there be anything else at play?

Could I set the log to debug and check it after the problem occurs again?

Thanks, Guus