Overlays vanished at random time and have not come back

[Alex-developer]

Stop the runtime data being written to the module config file as it can lead to corruption, save it in a separate file instead

Discussed in #3454

^{Originally posted by STLS-1 March 4, 2024}
As in subject, My overlays simply vanished at around 12:35PM yesterday and have not come back. No clue why. I have not touched anything with overlays once I got them working. I rebooted and no change. I removed overlay items to see if there was one that suddenly went bad.. NO change.

[rmoravcik]

Same thing is happeing to me using V2024.xx.xx branch. For some reason overlay module is getting disabled by something.

[rmoravcik]

It seems my issue of disapearing overlay is caused by some stuck of system:

2024-03-24T02:15:09.077479+01:00 allsky allsky[885]: STARTING EXPOSURE at: 2024-03-24 02:15:09 @ 2.8 sec 2024-03-24T02:15:09.992652+01:00 allsky allsky[25652]: ERROR: Module allsky_overlay.py will be disabled, it took 33.54 seconds; max allowed is 30 seconds 2024-03-24T02:15:16.307289+01:00 allsky allsky[885]: > Saving NIGHT image 'image-20240324021509.jpg'

[EricClaeys]

You can adjust the maximum allowed - see the documentation. 33 seconds is a long time, do you have a lot of text and/or images in your overlay, or have a slow Pi?