Frontail, broken design

Terra · September 3, 2020, 9:15am

I have the same issue. Yesterday I installed an Ubuntu 20.04.1 on a new PC as I want to migrate to a different machine. After installing OpenHabian and installing Frontail it had the same layout issues.

I saw that the bootstrap.min.css file is in the folder /usr/lib/node_modules/frontail/web/assets/styles on my old machine and I copied it over to the new machine and now the layout looks ok. However I also noticed that the new machine is also lacking the files “dark.css” and “default.css” in this folder.

old machine:

newly installed machine:

rickoman · September 5, 2020, 2:55pm

I am having the exact same problem - only openhab.css in the styles/ directory.

There are NO ERRORS in the web developer network view when it tries to load bootstrap.min.css. So I copied the url into another tab and it sure enough no error but redirects and loads frontail index, no error but not bootstrap.min.css. weird.

Frontail failed to install on a fresh openhabian 5.8-1. So I installed it manually. I am running frontail 4.9.1

Wolfgang_S · September 5, 2020, 3:34pm

are you on stable tree or on master of when you use the openhabian config menu ?
the stable tree expects a physical file bootstrap.min.css in the styles directory while the master tree uses an URL to load bootstrap.min.css from the internet.

rickoman · September 5, 2020, 4:38pm

I copied bootstrap.min.css into /usr/lib/node_modules/frontail/web/assets/styles. This helped but I am still missing dark.css and default.css

I just ran openhabian-config

ran option 01 | and set branch to stable
ran option 03 | Install or upgrade to latest stable
rebooted

No change in frontail display.

ran openhabian-config again

ran option 20 | Optional Components
ran option 21 | Log Viewer (frontail)

This deleted everything in /usr/lib/node_modules/frontail/web/assets/styles except for openhab.css.

I can put anything for this url like http://192.168.1.30:9001/styles/sillyme.css and it loads http://192.168.1.30:9001/ no error

Also notice how bootstrap.min.css is a type HTML and not CSS

 ##############################################################    #################
    ###############  openhab  #####################################################
    ###############################################################################
    ##        Ip = 192.168.1.30
    ##   Release = Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
    ##    Kernel = Linux 5.4.51-v7l+
    ##  Platform = Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2
    ##    Uptime = 0 day(s). 0:53:8
    ## CPU Usage = 1.25% avg over 4 cpu(s) (4 core(s) x 1 socket(s))
    ##  CPU Load = 1m: 0.50, 5m: 0.41, 15m: 0.40
    ##    Memory = Free: 1.08GB (58%), Used: 0.78GB (42%), Total: 1.87GB
    ##      Swap = Free: 1.99GB (100%), Used: 0.00GB (0%), Total: 1.99GB
    ##      Root = Free: 107.12GB (95%), Used: 5.21GB (5%), Total: 117.13GB
    ##   Updates = 0 apt updates available.
    ##  Sessions = 0 session(s)
    ## Processes = 123 running processes of 32768 maximum processes
    ###############################################################################

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                      openHAB 2.5.8-1 (Release Build)

mstormi · September 5, 2020, 4:55pm

you need to choose master

rickoman · September 5, 2020, 5:19pm

Thank you. Master fixed frontail

Terra · September 6, 2020, 10:35am

Switching to Master fixed also my layout issues

Terra · September 14, 2020, 7:43am

I still have one issue with frontail since switching to master.

When I restart openhab “sudo service openhab2 restart” frontail takes ages to start as well.
I see the frontail icon in the OpenHAB UI selection instantly but it takes like 3-5 minutes after openHAB started until I can access the UI.

Am I the only one with this issue?

mstormi · September 14, 2020, 7:52am

That’s normal, it’s the time it takes to restart OH on a SBC like a RPi.

Terra · September 14, 2020, 9:23am

I run my OH2 instance on an Intel NUC Gen8 i7.

OpenHab2 is running and working and I can access the OH2 Basic, Classic and Paper UI long before I can access the Frontail UI.

I just thought this is an unusual behavior.

ecdye · September 14, 2020, 4:48pm

It happens to everyone, Frontail just takes time to start updating logs again after a OH restart. Perhaps someday it will get better but for now that is what we are stuck with.