Crashes on ChromeBox

[zekim]

I am running the software on an ASUS Chromebox and have encountered a minor issue.

When the Chromebox is hooked up to an ethernet connection, everything works fine. However, when the Chromebox runs off of Wi-Fi the Kiosk software crashes at startup.

I believe that the issue is that the software is trying to fetch the webpage before a network connection is available as the Wi-Fi takes longer to startup than ethernet.

Is it possible to add a check for navigator.online before attempting to load the webpage?

Something along these lines:
function launch()
{

if (navigator.onLine)
{
chrome.storage.local.get('url',function(x){
$('#browser').attr('src',x["url"]).get(0).reload();
});
}
else
{
setTimeout(launch,10000);
}
}

[matt-cook]

Thanks for the detailed report. I'll post a patch on Friday when I'm back
in the office. Merry Christmas.

On Wednesday, December 24, 2014, Michael Zebrowski [email protected]
wrote:

I am running the software on an ASUS Chromebox and have encountered a
minor issue.

When the Chromebox is hooked up to an ethernet connection, everything
works fine. However, when the Chromebox runs off of Wi-Fi the Kiosk
software crashes at startup.

I believe that the issue is that the software is trying to fetch the
webpage before a network connection is available as the Wi-Fi takes longer
to startup than ethernet.

Is it possible to add a check for navigator.online before attempting to
load the webpage?

Something along these lines:
function launch()
{

if (navigator.onLine)
{

chrome.storage.local.get('url',function(x){
$('#browser').attr('src',x["url"]).get(0).reload();
});
}
else
{
setTimeout(launch,10000);
}

}

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
https://github.com/zebradog/kiosk/issues/13.

[matt-cook]

Hi Michael. The only "crash" I was able to reproduce was the page load error show in the webview when it failed to connect to the page. It will now (as of v5.1.2) attempt to reconnect once a second if the webview fails to load. Did this fix the issue for you?