I know there are lots of posts on this topic, but depite working through many many many of them I cant get this working.
I have a raspberry pi2b with raspbian jessie wheezy.
I want to run this framebuffer command automatically on startup:
sudo /usr/bin/fbi -T 1 -t 1 -1 -a -noverbose /home/pi/Pictures/*.jpg
I initially edited rc.local and into it I tried each of these commands but nothing happened on startup:
sudo /usr/bin/fbi -T 1 -t 1 -1 -a -noverbose /home/pi/Pictures/*.jpg
and
sudo fbi -T 1 -t 1 -1 -a -noverbose /home/pi/Pictures/*.jpg
so then I created a script called script_auto_run in my /home/pi/projects/test folder containing the following code:
#!/bin/bash
# Script to start our application
sudo /usr/bin/fbi -T 1 -t 1 -1 -a -noverbose /home/pi/Pictures/*.jpg
into rc.local I placed
sudo /home/pi/projects/test/script_auto_run
Again nothing happens on startup
So then I re-created my script_auto_run file in my /etc/init.d folder and its contents are as follows:
#!/bin/bash
# /etc/init.d/script_auto_run
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: servoblaster
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Example initscript
# Description: This service is used to manage a servo
### END INIT INFO
sudo /usr/bin/fbi -T 1 -t 1 -1 -a -noverbose /home/pi/Pictures/*.jpg
exit 0
I ran the sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/script_auto_run command and then edited my rc.local yet again to the following line:
sudo /etc/init.d/script_auto_run
None of these are working. I can run rc.local or script_auto_run from the terminal manually and there is no problem. But they are not executing automatically on startup. Raspbian is just booting to the GUI as normal.
I suggest to follow this http://www.raspberry-projects.com/pi/pi-operating-systems/raspbian/custom-boot-up-screen. It works for me and it's easy. Hope it helps