OpenLP 3.0.2 has been released!

kurl8rocks

I have installed 3.0.2 and have been struggling with it for a month+. How do I revert to v2.4.6 which was working fine. I have less technical people on my team that do not know how to work around the bugs that show up in 3.0.2.

tgc

If you have a backup of your data (which is normally created on upgrade) you can follow this downgrade guide: https://manual.openlp.org/troubleshooting.html#downgrade-guide-how-to-restore-a-backup

Which issues are you seeing that prevents you from staying on 3.0.2?

kurl8rocks

The theme I save the service with is not always the theme that is loaded when I load the service. The theme it chooses is not consistent, it’s not even the default theme.

I run OpenLP on a laptop. I program the service without the laptop plugged into an external monitor and I always get an error about a mismatch in screen configuration. But I don’t change the configuration. When I plug the laptop into the external monitor at the church, OpenLP wants to project to the laptop. I have to change the screen configuration, and sometimes restart OpenLP to get it to recognize the external monitor. I didn’t have these problems with 2.4.6.

joe

Hello team I just wanted to say how thankful i am for version 3 of OpenLP. we don't use it at a regular basis but recently I could test it in church and I must say I like the remote (on a smartphone) which now is really usable also for complete Newbies. Afte the service he told me "much more comfortable than in front of the notebook".

I also tipped 21 bucks for the 4K monitor you needed to get.

Thanks for the great work you did in the last years!

Kdog7012

I'm having problems with the new update.

I'm using open LP to broadcast in OBS using the live view "ip.add.res.000:socket/main" and when I click the show desktop button in Open LP it now shows the desktop in the live view, whereas before it was empty. so I have words in broadcast when I need them, but when words stop and I want to show desktop on projector and nothing on live screen it shows the desktop on both, this isn't how it was working before, is there a fix for this?

Aliya77

Hi guys

That's fantastic news! The release of OpenLP 3.0.2 brings with it the promise of improved performance and bug fixes, ensuring a smoother experience for users. Looking forward to trying it out!.

augustusm

AllenH101
Hey yall, still having an issue creating video themes. It seems as if the "background color" overrides the actual video, leading to the video not being shown at all, just the background color. Has anyone else encountered this issue?
Running vs 3.0.2 on Windows 10 64 Bit.

I am having the same problem with a Lenovo laptop with AMD Radeon Graphics running on Windows 11. It does not happen on my HP Laptop with Intel Graphics.

SchlaegelBagel

augustusm
https://forums.openlp.org/discussion/comment/15902#Comment_15902
I am having the same problem with a Lenovo laptop with AMD Radeon Graphics running on Windows 11. It does not happen on my HP Laptop with Intel Graphics.

One thing I found with my laptop (Intel CPU, NVIDIA GPU, WIN 10) is that setting it to use High Performance GPU never let it run Video BG's. As soon as I set it back to "Let Windows Decide/Auto Select", I have not had any issues with them playing.

IDK if AMD's systems have anything like that in settings. Since a lot of the time, their GPU is built into the CPU, unless you got one that happens to be INTEL CPU with AMD GPU.

slattenkyrkan

we have the same promlem as pastorjanes

When we use imported pptx files everytime we change slide a new PowersPoint instance is launched.

after a while we cant change slide anymore

we will try to roll back to an earlier version

NorfolkGreg

wemmc
I noticed two things that I find concerning.
OpenLP 3.0.2 takes almost twice as long to start as the version we were using (2.4.x)the icon pack is ugly and doesn't look like the task that it's supposed to do. e.g. the icon for blank to theme doesn't look anything like blanking to theme, and the blank to desktop has an X through it. Why? it doesn't make any sense, and seems like a massive step backwards in usability. How am I supposed to explain what it means to the less tech knowledgeable users? Who thought this was better?

I'm a very occasional user of OpenLP and have only just downloaded 3.0.2 after using 2.4.6.

I use the portable versions and find no noticeable difference between the two for startup times.

I know it's been a few months since you posted and I hope you're used to the new icon pack by now and have made some sense of it.

I don't have any problem with the "show theme" icon. It's a very standard image icon used in many software packages, including this forum, and what is a theme but the image shown behind any text being presented.

Similarly, with the the "Show Desktop" icon, an "X" is about as standard as you can get for "don't" or "close" and it in this case it says don't show, or close, the OpenLP window.

I even actively prefer the vertically oriented Previous and Next icons in the new version, as that's the direction you move objects in in the lists above. And the new icons for Preview (with a blank row of seats in front of the screen) and the Live (with an audience seated in front of the screen) seem , just right to me.

About the only icon that is a bit "techie" is the multi-platter hard disk icon that is used to indicate a database. That's even more old fashioned than 1980s the 3.5" floppy disk icon still common to indicate "Save" in almost every software package. But a database is what you need to have in mind when trying to find a symbol to represent "Maintain the list of authors, topics, and books".

wemmc

NorfolkGreg
https://forums.openlp.org/discussion/comment/15996#Comment_15996
I'm a very occasional user of OpenLP and have only just downloaded 3.0.2 after using 2.4.6.
I use the portable versions and find no noticeable difference between the two for startup times.
I know it's been a few months since you posted and I hope you're used to the new icon pack by now and have made some sense of it.
I don't have any problem with the "show theme" icon. It's a very standard image icon used in many software packages, including this forum, and what is a theme but the image shown behind any text being presented.
Similarly, with the the "Show Desktop" icon, an "X" is about as standard as you can get for "don't" or "close" and it in this case it says don't show, or close, the OpenLP window.
I even actively prefer the vertically oriented Previous and Next icons in the new version, as that's the direction you move objects in in the lists above. And the new icons for Preview (with a blank row of seats in front of the screen) and the Live (with an audience seated in front of the screen) seem , just right to me.
About the only icon that is a bit "techie" is the multi-platter hard disk icon that is used to indicate a database. That's even more old fashioned than 1980s the 3.5" floppy disk icon still common to indicate "Save" in almost every software package. But a database is what you need to have in mind when trying to find a symbol to represent "Maintain the list of authors, topics, and books".

Truthfully, I restored 2.4 from a backup and I'm waiting to test the next version. 3.0.2 doesn't work in our system and the interface is horrible. No one in our team likes it, and it's not stable or useable. The excessive loading time isn't the worst issue, the fact that it doesn't work is.

FBCLABARGE

Hi all, I recently tried to upgrade and older version of OpenLP and it completely uninstalled all my sermons, now it only shows the icon and when clicking on it nothing happens. Years of songs, backgrounds and photos are gone. Tried to install new version (3x) finally had to install the 'portable ' one (more info in the troubleshooting forum). However in the portable version I will create a theme for a song and it will not save to the song unless it is the default theme . then during the sermon ALL songs are reverting to that ONE default theme! HELP, please! Thank you

LBC

Hello,

I previously used version 2.4.6

I installed 3.0.2 on a new computer. This was not an upgrade, but a clean install on a new computer.

I am still using Powerpoint 2010

I cannot use the Down arrow on the Keyboard or the "Move to Next" icon to advance to the next slide in Powerpoint. I have to click on the next slide in the "Live" panel.

It will flash the next slide for a few milliseconds, and then go back to the first slide. I noticed that the OpenLP window also flashes when I use the down arrow on the keyboard.

Powerpoint 2010 worked fine with OpenLP 2.4.6, so I believe this is a problem with OpenLP, and not a powerpoint problem.

Anyone have any ideas how to correct this?

Let me know if a video showing this problem would help.

Thanks in advance.

LBC

I see someone already filed an "issue" on gitlab. I added a comment there as well.

https://gitlab.com/openlp/openlp/-/issues/1375

LBC

Upgrading to Powerpoint 2013 appears to have resolved this issue. I can now advance to the next slide using the Keyboard shortcut or the "Move to next" button.

However, now I have a different issue.

When I have a presentation showing, and then select the "show black" option, when I send a new presentation to Live, the projector remains black.

I have the "Unblank display when sending items to Live" Option Selected, and I see the selected icon change from "show black" to "Show presentation", but the screen remains black. I can even cycle through all of the "Show Desktop", "Show Black", and "Show presentation" options, but the screen remains black. "Show Desktop" does Not show the desktop. "Show presentation" does Not show the presentation.

However; If I move to the next slide it will then begin displaying, but then I have to quickly switch back to the first slide. This is confusing for my volunteers, and distracting for the congregation.

I also noticed that if I move my mouse over to the Projector screen, I get the PowerPoint options at the bottom of the screen. If I select the Three Dot option button, then select "Screen", I can select "Unblack Screen", and that will cause the presentation to show.

It seems OpenLP is Enabling the "Black Screen" option in Powerpoint, but then does not Disable that option until I advance to a new slide.

Since I've seen a drastic change in behavior in OpenLP after switching from Powerpoint 2010 to Powerpoint 2013, I am wondering what versions of Powerpoint you used in your testing and development? Is there a Recommended version of Powerpoint?

RayDuffy

Does any one have issue with OpenLP 3.0.2 on windows 11 with dual monitor using HDMI

Openlp hangs

tgc

@LBC regarding PowerPoint. In general we've been testing on fairly recent versions of PowerPoint. We have very limited resources, so testing on multiple PowerPoint versions is not possible. Contributing to the issue is that none of the core developers uses windows as their primary OS...

silvain

We are using OpenLP in our Church with a shared folder on the cloud (a privite ownCloud installation). At the church, on a Windows 10 system, some other people using different systems (including MacOS and Ubuntu 22.04 for me). Now the users MUST[*] of course use the same versions for it to work. We started with 2.4 and upgraded to 2.9.4 (or 2.9.5, which is compatible). Now we cannot use version 3, as we managed to have it working only on a Windows system, and the database is not compatible with 2.9 version.

It is very nice to share the data folder as we can for example prepare the services, check, add and edit songs, directly from home in advance, and have things ready on Sunday morning at church.

I suggest you still support 2.9.4-2.9.5 until the situation has improved with version 3 - or at least have the downloads more excplicitely available.

[*] I discovered it the hard way the first time I upgraded to 2.9 on my computer. I discovered the problem when opening OpenLP at church. We still had a 2.4 version... and it would not work until I upgraded to 2.9.

tgc

silvain
We are using OpenLP in our Church with a shared folder on the cloud (a privite ownCloud installation). At the church, on a Windows 10 system, some other people using different systems (including MacOS and Ubuntu 22.04 for me). Now the users MUST[*] of course use the same versions for it to work. We started with 2.4 and upgraded to 2.9.4 (or 2.9.5, which is compatible). Now we cannot use version 3, as we managed to have it working only on a Windows system, and the database is not compatible with 2.9 version.
It is very nice to share the data folder as we can for example prepare the services, check, add and edit songs, directly from home in advance, and have things ready on Sunday morning at church.
I suggest you still support 2.9.4-2.9.5 until the situation has improved with version 3 - or at least have the downloads more excplicitely available.
[*] I discovered it the hard way the first time I upgraded to 2.9 on my computer. I discovered the problem when opening OpenLP at church. We still had a 2.4 version... and it would not work until I upgraded to 2.9.

Hi!

While we are aware that some users use a shared folder as you describe, it is not a supported feature of OpenLP, so we won't support 2.9.4/5 for keeping this feature supported.

That being said, if we can easily fix the issues related to this, we can try to look into making it work better. So what is the issues you are seeing with the later versions?

wemmc

tgc
https://forums.openlp.org/discussion/comment/16321#Comment_16321
Hi!
While we are aware that some users use a shared folder as you describe, it is not a supported feature of OpenLP, so we won't support 2.9.4/5 for keeping this feature supported.
That being said, if we can easily fix the issues related to this, we can try to look into making it work better. So what is the issues you are seeing with the later versions?

Not supporting a shared folder system means we can't upgrade to v. 3.x

This is a feature that is used by hundreds of installations. Dropping it is VERY short sighted. Combined with the fact that you seem to expect churches to have brand new computers instead of 10 year old repurposed machines means we will need to start looking for alternatives.

I am disappointed in the choices that openlp has made.

Marvinvc

The new version was working find on macOS Ventura. Now it keeps crashing when when opening.

Steve Blakemore

Hi, I have just tried videos and linked audio in v3.0.2 and there is a problem, on a Windows 11 laptop, but not on a MacBook Pro (M1 chip).

I put this same message in a reply elsewhere, then thought that this would be a better place to put it.

The video loads ok but when it finishes, there is a gap of a couple of seconds where there is silence and a black screen, then it repeats the first couple of seconds of the video, then ends. It's the same with Linked audio files in Songs. The music plays OK, but when it finishes, it repeats the first couple of seconds, then ends. I am using various types of files including mp3, wav and mpeg and it does it with all. I copied the service plan to a MacBook, and the problem does not exist, it looks to be just a Windows problem. Both Windows 11 and MacBook machines are on v3.0.2. The MacBook Pro is running Ventura 13.4.1.

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