Q Light Controller+

Hello,

I'm working on Raspi 4 and i have some issues.

First one is that the Project autostart don't work (most of the time).
When i import a project via the web interface, save it via the config panel, it don't save, and when i try to do it manualy directly by replacing the autostart file, it does work : blank project.
I tried to load back my "autostart" that i saved before and : unable to acces ressource...


Also, when i try to shutdown, reboot, or to do a network config via the web interface, nothing append.


Do you have any advices ? thank you.


PS : previously i had an issue whith the UI not showing up (headless). I tried to recompile multipile time on SD card : nothing. I managed to solve that by booting on USB... don't know why. SD card was NEW.

Hey vicat,
I am facing the same issues (on qlcplus_raspios_bookworm_20240530), but I believe I found a (reproducable) workaround.
First and foremost: shutdown etc is NOT working from any browser, so you have to manually pull the plug.

IMPORTANT: When I say reboot, do not press the shutdown or whatever button in any menu, simply pull the plug, and then power it up again.


Now, if you want to save a project to load automatically on autostart, follow these steps EXACTLY:

1. Create a project on your main computer and save it as <LOREMIPSUM>.qxw (<LOREMIPSUM> being your preferred name for the project)

2. Boot up your raspberry and connect to it via the web-interface (for me that would be via 192.168.1.151:9999)
2.5. Make sure you use CHROME. I am a Firefox user myself, but for some reason it sometimes has issues with QLC.

3. SAVE the project on your raspberry (not in the webbrowser) under home/pi/>LOREMIPSUM>.qxw.

4. Turn of the raspberry Pi and reboot it, it should load either an empty project or whatever your autostart was set to last.

5. On your Raspberry (NOT the browser), load the project that you have saved under home/pi/<LOREMIPSUM>.qxw and apply all settings that you want (e.g. In/Output)

6. Enable "live" mode (In the most upper right corner there should be a red square instead of a green arrow to the right)

7. Switch to the Virtual Console.

8. Connect to the raspberry via webbrowser (e.g. 192.168.1.151:9999)

9. Go to Configuration->System and press "Apply Changes" exactly once. Now wait for a couple of seconds, I think it needs some time to write, or at least that was the key for me.

10. Click "Back" in the top left corner (Sometimes it did not save without that).

11. Reboot your Raspberry, it should now have saved everything correctly, and should automatically boot up the project.

For me, that works. It is tedious, but I can reproduce getting autostart to work. Work slowly through the steps, because I believe some saves can be corrupted. I once couldn't load a project I had saved, I believe due to me working these steps too fast and it not saving properly.
Best of luck. The QLC is amazing, but there is a certain "clunk" to it^^ But what can ya do.

Thank you ! i will try that and tell you if it works

thank you again !!

Hello,

I come back after a while... I tried to do what you say, but I am not able to load the project from home/pi. it give me an error.

BTW, i have other issues probably not related here : https://www.qlcplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17714

This will be much easier...

Now, if you want to save a project to load automatically on autostart, follow this one step EXACTLY:

Place your show file in /home/pi/.qlcplus and name it autostart.qxw That's it!

QLC+ checks for this file when it starts, if it is there, it will load it automatically. Please use the latest version (4.13.1 or later) as the file location has changed in later versions.

You can also set an autostart file through the web interface!

cool cool cool !

thank you