Raspberry Pi program delay

raspberry-pi delay autostart midori
gloops100 picture gloops100 · Jul 4, 2014 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I use Raspberry Pi to display web page automatically at startup.

The issue is : As soon as the raspberry is started, Midori is launched, but I've the message "Cannot Resolve Hostname....".

When I update the webpage 30 seconds after startup, it is correctly displayed.

How I can make a delay to launch Midori after X seconds ?

I launch my webpage with /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

Answer

Revive picture Revive · Jul 4, 2014

To add small delay before midori starts, which would be less reliable than ip checking. See section 3 on this link. http://www.antony-neu.com/2013/03/12/autostarting-a-browser-on-the-raspberry-pi/

Follow the steps and inside the bash script above the line that calls midori add a sleep period: 

sleep 5

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