Converted Mac Wallpapers Not Syncing to Sun

[dimike96]

I'm not exactly sure if that's whats happening but I've used the method in the readme to convert some mac .heic dynamic wallpapers that I had and one seems to work (it's only three frames and I haven't sat and watched it run through), but the other is showing the image for the middle of the day at the middle of the night. Is there a way to adjust the time values or whatever is going wrong in the conversion process? Also is there a way to force a wallpaper to cycle through for testing? I can't change system time, and moving the lat/long in the dynamic wallpaper settings doesn't do anything

I might just try building a similar wallpaper but like the idea of taking advantage of the existing demand for and supply of mac wallpapers. Anyway, appreciate your work on this project regardless.

[zzag]

Can you grab the metadata file? The convert script should create a directory in /tmp with extracted images and a generated metadata.json file. Also, do you live in the northern or southern hemisphere?

[dimike96]

All I could find in /tmp were sample metadata files. I might have missed something, is there a specific path it uses? Also, I am in the northern hemisphere

[zzag]

Oh, you may need to edit the script as the tmp directory will be destroyed after the script finishes running. Anyway, another way would be to extract metadata by hand. Can you run strings wallpaper.heic | grep apple and post the output of the command?

[sspanak]

@dimike96, have you tried setting your location manually? I've noticed that "Mojave XP" wallpaper is in night mode in the day, but when I entered my location coordinates manually, it switched to day mode.

@zzag, is it possible to check what is the automatically detected location somehow? I have the feeling it is not being detected properly sometimes and that's the actual problem.

[zzag]

is it possible to check what is the automatically detected location somehow? I have the feeling it is not being detected properly sometimes and that's the actual problem.

If you open wallpaper settings (right click on desktop, Configure Desktop and Wallpaper...), it should display the current location.

[sspanak]

Do you mean here?

If yes, then the automatic location is always at (0,0), which is obviously incorrect, I do not live in the ocean near Africa. I've tried the Night Color widget, Firefox and Chromium and they are able to find me correctly, so there is no general problem with my computer. I leave the conclusion to you, but my guess is there is something wrong with location detection.

There is also one more thing that I noticed. I am also using Mac wallpapers from https://dynamicwallpaper.club/ and I have a problem only with the ones that have the "SUN" tag, like "Mojave XP". I don't know what it means, but I suppose the "SUN" wallpapers depend on the Sun position, while the rest just use the time of the day. I may be wrong all wrong, of course. I've just learned about dynamic wallpapers yesterday and I have no idea how plasma5-wallpapers-dynamic works. Either way, I hope that helps.

[zzag]

Huh, is geoclue running on your machine? This plugin supports both of those formats.

[sspanak]

Ok, I didn't have the package at all, but now that I have installed it, the wallpapers still misbehave. When I check the status using systemctl status geoclue.service, it says "dead", but from what I understand the service wakes up on demand. Or do I need to configure anything else?