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Meural Canvas II: Bug? Removal of SD card w/ playlists does not completely remove references
Hello, please let me know if I should be posting this elsewhere ..... Issue 1 involving SD card based playlists On SD card created 4 playlists: meural1, meural2, meural3 and meural4 with a few ...
I have the same issue.
After inserting sd card with folders meural1 and meural2 and rebooting, Meural correctly recognized the images. However, when I updated the SD card and added new images to meural1/meural2 folders, it still shows the old content. I have tried to restart Meural several times and still see the same behavior.
Also after I removed the sd card both folders are still visible but the images are not displayed (top right corner shows the icon with a broken image).
After the restart I also see that sometimes the SD is not recognized at all.
Hello Imir,
I started to get better results when I completely powered off the Meural Canvas II by unplugging it from the wall and waiting 10 seconds before restarting it whenever I inserted or removed the SD card.
When I reported the problem I was using the button on the side of the Meural Canvas to restart the Canvas after inserting or removing the SD card. I think when I used the button the Meural was not completely dropping electrical power.
The steps that I use when inserting or removing an SD card are:
1) Unplug Canvas from electrical outlet
2) Insert or remove SD card
3) Wait 10 seconds
4) Plug Canvas into electrical outlet
I hope this is of some use to you.
Vic
Thanks Vic_G
I did as you suggested and the SD card is being recognized, however still the new images that I have just added are not recognized.
I wonder if this has something to do with the directory structure.
Here is mine:
<meuralx> is the name of the SD card. On the card I just have two directories: meural1 and meural2.
-meural1 directory with multiple files:
- Chocolate.jpg,
- test eleven.png
- test five.tiff
- test four.tiff
- test one.jpg
- test seven.tiff
- test six.tiff
- test three.tiff
- test two.tiff
-meural2 directory with
- Adoration.jpg
- Christ on cross.jpg
- Heilige Sebastian.jpg
- Immacuate.jpg
- Madonna and the child.jpg
- test seven.tiff
Right now, only Cholocate.jpg is recognized in meural1 and in meural2 all jpg images except "test seven.tiff".
Could you share what is your directory structure and file format? What happens after you update the SD card and add more images?
Hello Imir,
I searched for the formats supported by the Meural Canvas II and found this link:
https://kb.netgear.com/000060767/What-image-and-video-formats-does-the-Meural-Canvas-support
I do not see .tiff files listed as being supported. Maybe that is the root of your current issues.
On my SD card there are 2 folders each with 3 files:
meural1
- DSC 0003.jpg
- DSC_0001.jpg
- DSC_0009.jpg
meural2
- DSC_0003.jpg
- DSC_0007.jpg
- just_a_file.png
All of my files were handled correctly at the Meural. I wondered if the blank in the file name would cause an issue and it did not. And the .png file was handled fine too. Which is as expected since it is listed in the above link as being supported, but sometimes I just have to see it work to be certain :).
When I add additional images to an existing folder, such as meural1, as long as I leave the Meural unplugged for at least 10 seconds, maybe even a little longer, after reinserting the SD card, all seems to work fine for me.
So at the moment I would suggest removing the .tiff files and see if that helps.
Happy New Year Imir.
Vic