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Xibo getting stuck when opening MHTML file

Asked by Dave Martin

Hi - I am trying to have the windows 1.2.2 Xibo client open up an MHTML file. SRSS generates a report and saves it as .mhtml. This works great except when Xibo is trying to read the file at the same time SRSS is writing the file. When these schedules collide, Xibo gets stuck. When I force the Xibo client to close and restart it, everything is fine again... until the next collision (minutes, hours, or days later)

The SRSS report schedule is frequent (every 15 minutes). The Xibo schedule is hard to predict, as the loop of content changes from day to day.

Any suggestions?

Dave

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#1

I guess you are using the webpage media type to display this page? Is it a local page? (Meaning local to the client pc?)

One potential solution would be to get SSRS to save the file on the web server, and then reference the URL instead?perhaps you might get a web server error (a page error when serving the content) but hopefully Xibo wouldn't crash.

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Dave Martin (dmard) said : 		#2

Thank you for the response.

Yes, I am opening it as webpage media in Xibo. The file itself is not local to the clients, but on a file server.

I will try posting to a webserver and/or locally to see if that helps. I am also considering trying the Ubuntu/Python client.

Dave

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Dave Martin (dmard) said : 		#3

By posting the page to a Web Server, instead of opening an MHTML file, it solved my problem.

Even when Xibo tries to open the webpage at the same time the webpage is being generated (a collision), the worst thing that happens is Xibo shows a blank page. Since my Xibo layout has a background image, a blank page still looks decent.