java.lang.NullPointerException

[Zubayer011]

This issue was automatically created by the RemoteLight ExceptionHandler.
RemoteLightCore version: v0.2.4-rc1
Java version: 1.8.0_261
OS: Windows 10
StackTrace:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at de.lars.remotelightcore.RemoteLightCore.showNotification(RemoteLightCore.java:269)
	at de.lars.remotelightcore.RemoteLightCore.showErrorNotification(RemoteLightCore.java:287)
	at de.lars.remotelightcore.RemoteLightCore.<init>(RemoteLightCore.java:125)
	at de.lars.remotelightclient.Main.<init>(Main.java:90)
	at de.lars.remotelightclient.Main.main(Main.java:78)

Aug 31, 2020 10:54 PM

[Drumber]

Hey, thanks for your bug report! Since this bug has been occupying me for quite some time and I cannot reproduce the cause, I would have 2 more questions:

• Does the error occur every time RemoteLight is started, or only sometimes?
• Are all settings and outputs deleted after this error occurs?

I would appreciate it if you could send me the log file that corresponds to the error.
You can find it in C:\Users\%YourUserName%\.RemoteLight\logs

Thanks in advance.

[snowsign]

It happens for me every time I start the app. It shows the splash screen, then crashes.

[Drumber]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Could you check if the folder .RemoteLight exists in the C:\Users\%yourUsername%\ directory.
Should look something like this:

If the folder exists, is there a data.json file in it? If so, could you check if the file is read or write protected.

I assume that RemoteLight cannot access the directory. Do you have an AntiVirus or anything else that could block the file access?

[snowsign]

My permissions look identical to yours. I don't have any sort of antivirus, and it feel like it would be a much bigger issue if it was being picked up by windows defender. It seems like there's some malformed JSON at the end of
the file (I had to change the extension so that GitHub would accept it; it's normal in the actual folder)

[Drumber]

Oh, I see what happened. The file was not completely written to disk. Deleting data.json should at least make RemoteLight usable for you.
I will try to find and fix the bug before the next release.
Thanks for sending, it helped me a lot. 👍

[Drumber]

Just released the new version that hopefully fixes the bug.
> https://github.com/Drumber/RemoteLight/releases/tag/v0.2.4-rc2

[Drumber]

Hey, I would like to know if the bug was fixed with v0.2.4-rc2 so I can close this issue.