Raspberry Pi4 run on boot

Ignition
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I am using RPi4 for clients and would like to have them automatically load the client software on boot.

I can currently boot the Pi to the desktop and run the script from there, but have not been successful in doing it automatically.

legacyclient.sh is located in a folder /home/pi/Ignition/

I have edited the following:

/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

Added

@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
/home/pi/Ignition/legacyclient.sh http://192.168.12.200:8088 C MIS F
have also tried with no success
@sh /home/pi/Ignition/legacyclient.sh http://192.168.12.200:8088 C MIS F

When I reboot, I come back to the desktop and no client load.

Any help please as I am fairly new to linux. My windows machine work flawlessly

Thanks

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For my Pi3s and later, I ended up adding another script to act as a delay before running the legacyclient script. Big enough to ensure the desktop is loaded, small enough to keep my impatience at bay.

#! /bin/bash

sleep 30
/home/pi/legacyLaunch/legacyClient.sh

delayLaunch.zip (224 Bytes)

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Not sure if you did this yet but permissions are are a common issue with crontab if its not working. You should do a chmod +x /home/pi/Ignition/legacyclient.sh if you haven’t already. Also, which crontab are you doing it in? There’s a crontab for root and a crontab for your user. Make sure you’re using the right one. sudo crontab -e gives you the roots ccrontab and crontab -e will give you your user pi's crontab.

4

JordanCClark works great on Pi3 but will not work on Pi4.

Thanks for the tip.

Cannot get crontab to run either. Added following to end of it
@reboot /home/pi/legacyLaunch/delayLaunch.sh

5

Worth reading through this if you’re having cron issues https://serverfault.com/questions/449651/why-is-my-crontab-not-working-and-how-can-i-troubleshoot-it