BRP Voting Plugin - Allow others to vote for your songs!

[DinoCut]

Will there be an option to self host ever?

[plaberge]

Hi there, I've got a new issue this year. Here are the details:

When the service is running, ~/media/config/backups fills up with backup files created every second or so, as shown below.

-rw-r--r-- 1 fpp fpp 575772 Dec 3 17:07 MasterFPP_all-backup_v7_20231203170749.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 fpp fpp 575772 Dec 3 17:07 MasterFPP_all-backup_v7_20231203170751.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 fpp fpp 575772 Dec 3 17:07 MasterFPP_all-backup_v7_20231203170753.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 fpp fpp 575772 Dec 3 17:07 MasterFPP_all-backup_v7_20231203170754.json

Over the last couple of days, 25,710+ files were created, consuming 14,492,360 bytes. I can delete them, but I have to keep an eye on this before the 32G SD card fills up. This is a bare install using 7.0, which I then upgraded to the latest version. I installed the plug-in fresh, and everything is running fine except for this issue.

Hopefully, you are still maintaining this, as it gets a lot of use over here. Please let me know if not, and I'll look for an alternative.

[Barkers Random Projects]

Will there be an option to self host ever?

Yes I hope so. I made some poor decisions when I created the server/client and tied them together with the rest of my website - but I hope to decouple that, sanitize it, and open source the client/server under a license (like mit or apache) that'll allow people to do self hosting.

Hi there, I've got a new issue this year. Here are the details:

When the service is running, ~/media/config/backups fills up with backup files created every second or so, as shown below.

-rw-r--r-- 1 fpp fpp 575772 Dec 3 17:07 MasterFPP_all-backup_v7_20231203170749.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 fpp fpp 575772 Dec 3 17:07 MasterFPP_all-backup_v7_20231203170751.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 fpp fpp 575772 Dec 3 17:07 MasterFPP_all-backup_v7_20231203170753.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 fpp fpp 575772 Dec 3 17:07 MasterFPP_all-backup_v7_20231203170754.json

Over the last couple of days, 25,710+ files were created, consuming 14,492,360 bytes. I can delete them, but I have to keep an eye on this before the 32G SD card fills up. This is a bare install using 7.0, which I then upgraded to the latest version. I installed the plug-in fresh, and everything is running fine except for this issue.

Hopefully, you are still maintaining this, as it gets a lot of use over here. Please let me know if not, and I'll look for an alternative.

Thanks for reporting this, I have a fix for this but I'm going to do a little more testing on it before I release it. The changes are in this branch: https://github.com/bbarke/brp-fpp-voting/pull/14

[plaberge]

Thanks for reporting this, I have a fix for this but I'm going to do a little more testing on it before I release it. The changes are in this branch: https://github.com/bbarke/brp-fpp-voting/pull/14

Great to hear that this is still an active project! I'll try to give the new version a try today. Here's some additional info that may shed more light on this. With the plug-in working, there seems to be a memory leak. I currently have to reboot the system regularly to clean this up. I've got the same FPP/OS version on another Pi as a back-up w/o the plug-in, and here's the memory usage a couple of hours after rebooting.

fpp@MasterFPP:~ $ ps -o pid,user,%mem,command ax | sort -b -k3 -rh | head -n 10
11367 fpp      17.0 php-fpm: pool www
11247 fpp      16.5 php-fpm: pool www
1164 fpp        15.7 php-fpm: pool www
1857 fpp        8.7 php-fpm: pool www
6783 fpp        8.1 php-fpm: pool www
11356 fpp      4.5 php-fpm: pool www
1696 root      1.3 /opt/fpp/src/fppd -f
939 root        0.5 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/7.4/fpm/php-fpm.conf)
1858 fpp        0.5 php-fpm: pool www
12349 fpp      0.5 php-fpm: pool www

For comparison, here's the system w/o the plug-in.
fpp@YardMaster:~ $ ps -o pid,user,%mem,command ax | sort -b -k3 -rh | head -n 10
9312 root      4.5 /opt/fpp/src/fppd -f
3914 fpp        1.6 php-fpm: pool www
31516 fpp      1.3 php-fpm: pool www
1457 fpp        1.2 php-fpm: pool www
10022 fpp      1.2 php-fpm: pool www
5636 fpp        1.1 php-fpm: pool www
3891 fpp        1.1 php-fpm: pool www
15041 fpp      1.1 php-fpm: pool www
1458 fpp        1.1 php-fpm: pool www
6278 fpp        1.0 php-fpm: pool www

[Barkers Random Projects]

Thanks for that input! I noticed that too - my "production" pi was lagging and had some high load on it tonight, as it was running the older v15 plugin while I was testing out the v16 on a different rpi. I think it was due to saving the config settings so frequently, triggering the backup. I've published a new version of the plugin, please use the plugin manager to update and let me know if that resolves it for you!

[Barkers Random Projects]

This is what it looks like now with running the v16 plugin

fpp@FPP-3b:~/media/plugins $ ps -o pid,user,%mem,command ax | sort -b -k3 -rh | head -n 10
25847 fpp       7.6 php-fpm: pool www
 8148 root      7.0 /opt/fpp/src/fppd -f
 2337 fpp       2.1 /usr/bin/python3 /home/fpp/media/plugins/brp-fpp-voting/scripts/vote-service.py 
 8070 fpp       2.0 php-fpm: pool www
16919 fpp       1.9 php-fpm: pool www
22636 fpp       1.8 php-fpm: pool www
15075 fpp       1.8 php-fpm: pool www
30404 fpp       1.6 php-fpm: pool www
30106 fpp       1.6 php-fpm: pool www
29376 fpp       1.6 php-fpm: pool www

[plaberge]

I've published a new version of the plugin, please use the plugin manager to update and let me know if that resolves it for you!

I've installed it. Memory utilization is way down. And I'm not seeing log files either! *Much* appreciated! I'll keep an eye on it tonight when my show is running.

If you are ever interested in taking this plug-in a little further, please PM me. I've got a couple of ideas

[CaptainMurdoch]

The new FPP v7.4 release also includes some changes to help prevent this backups-related runaway disk usage in the future and also to make sure that automated backups such as this don't force user-initiated backups to expire.

[stealth95l]

We've had a couple of issues with this plugin this year, it's cleared it's api key and the settings, and I couldn't find there place to restore our api key? We like this plugin so what I've done to remedy this till this is hopefully fixed int he future is I setup a qr code with a link to my domain that forwards it to the brp voting page, that way if our link changes I can update my domain and not have to make another qr code. We also have problems with some of the songs not finishing all the way (it's toward the very end) and it will switch to the next voted song.

[Barkers Random Projects]

We've had a couple of issues with this plugin this year, it's cleared it's api key and the settings, and I couldn't find there place to restore our api key? We like this plugin so what I've done to remedy this till this is hopefully fixed int he future is I setup a qr code with a link to my domain that forwards it to the brp voting page, that way if our link changes I can update my domain and not have to make another qr code. We also have problems with some of the songs not finishing all the way (it's toward the very end) and it will switch to the next voted song.

I'm really sorry about this last year, I'm just seeing this. You could manually edit the 'privateKey' value in the config file in the future. I'll do an update soon that'll allow you to set a previously saved key in the UI as well so people don't run into this situation again.
I've noticed the very end of the song is skipped as well if a song is voted on. The next voted song is set to play at less than 3 seconds before the song ends. Maybe I can shorten that to about 1 second so it'll be a bit more seamless. The real solution though would be to create an api in falcon player to queue the next song instead of calling the start playlist at item endpoint. I'll dig into the docs again to see if I can't find something to make that transition a bit smoother. Thanks for pointing this out!

[plaberge]

It looks like the voting site is down. It was fine earlier this week, but I noticed it had stopped working on Wednesday night. Two symptoms: 1) when I go to the voting URL, I see a blank white screen; 2) when I stop and restart the plug-in, it just spins on the Unique voting URL line. People really like the ability to pick the next song, so I hope you can look at this soon.

Paul.

[Poporacer]

It looks like the voting site is down.

That sucks.

so I hope you can look at this soon.

Hopefully he does.

People really like the ability to pick the next song

I totally agree, you might want to consider Remote Falcon, it way more popular and very well supported and the developer is very pro active it keeping things running smoothly. It is actually the most widely used plug in on FPP.

[Barkers Random Projects]

Thanks, it is back up now. I'll do some investigation tomorrow to find out why it went down and try to prevent it from happening again.

[plaberge]

I totally agree, you might want to consider Remote Falcon, it way more popular and very well supported and the developer is very pro active it keeping things running smoothly. It is actually the most widely used plug in on FPP.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've looked at it, I've even set it up a few times - not super straightforward, but getting easier. I agree that it's more fully featured, but most of these don't enhance my simple use case: allowing viewers to vote for the next song by scanning a QR code (my playlist has over 60 songs). I proactively prod Brent once a year to update the plug-in to the latest FPP release, and once that's done, it has proven reliable over many seasons. (This is an exception!) Some enhancements would be nice, but judging from the positive feedback I get from my viewers, they aren't critical.