Need help installing ustreamer

[luckyflyer]

Success, I can get into ustreamer from my pc on pi's ip addr.
@bearer, I want to say a big thank you for your help, wouldn't have been able to get there if you hadn't stepped in!!

@gtj0 Also thanks!

[gtj0]

@luckyflyer As a reward are you going put on a show for us???

[luckyflyer]

I can sure do that but........ murphy has made another appearance.

I have the standalone pi working good so now its time to load ustreamer onto the Duet pi.
The first thing I do is assign a static ip for eth0 and wlan on Duet pi, thats done new address's work.
Next I run.

sudo apt-get install libevent-dev libjpeg8-dev uuid-dev libbsd-dev

I get an error saying cannot reach raspbianraspberrypi.org I try several times thinking that maybe the server is down. I then try one of my pi's that is dhcp and it gets on the server immediately. I don't understand this do a google for this type of problem and come up with nothing. So I disable firewall still no. I then remove the static addresses and Duet pi is now able to reach the server.
So the above command now downloads I proceed with the install/compile with these notes I've made,

**Check if make and gcc are already installed, if not installed install with sudo apt-get install

Get these,
sudo apt-get install libevent-dev libjpeg8-dev uuid-dev libbsd-dev

Now compile ustreamer

$ sudo git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer
$ mkdir ustreamer
$ cd ustreamer
$ make

check if working with
$ ./ustreamer --help**

When I get to make I get this error,

pi@duet3:~/ustreamer $ make
-- CC src/device.c
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘build’: Permission denied
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create build/src/device.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:92: build/src/device.o] Error 1
pi@duet3:~/ustreamer $

@bearer Can I impose on your expertise one more time.

[luckyflyer]

Figured it out need sudo make.

But would still like to know why I can't do updates with a static ip address.

[luckyflyer]

@bearer
Can you take a look at this. This is from the Duet pi, same problem I had with the stand alone pi that seemed to correct its self.

-- INFO [101.021 main] -- Installing SIGINT handler ...
-- INFO [101.021 main] -- Installing SIGTERM handler ...
-- INFO [101.021 main] -- Ignoring SIGPIPE ...
-- INFO [101.021 main] -- Enabling HTTP file server: /tmp/
-- INFO [101.021 main] -- Using internal blank placeholder
-- INFO [101.022 main] -- Listening HTTP on [0.0.0.0]:8080
-- INFO [101.023 stream] -- Using V4L2 device: /dev/video0
-- INFO [101.023 stream] -- Using desired FPS: 0
-- INFO [101.024 http] -- Starting HTTP eventloop ...
-- INFO [101.110 stream] -- Device fd=8 opened
-- INFO [101.110 stream] -- Using input channel: 0
-- INFO [101.110 stream] -- Using TV standard: DEFAULT
-- INFO [101.112 stream] -- Using resolution: 640x480
-- INFO [101.112 stream] -- Using pixelformat: YUYV
-- INFO [101.114 stream] -- Using HW FPS: 0 -> 15 (coerced)
-- INFO [101.117 stream] -- Requested 5 HW buffers, got 5
-- INFO [101.119 stream] -- Capturing started
-- INFO [101.119 stream] -- Using JPEG quality: 80%
-- INFO [101.119 stream] -- Creating pool with 4 workers ...
-- INFO [101.119 stream] -- Capturing ...

pi@duet3:~ $ sudo netstat -lt4np
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5900 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 437/vncserver-x11-c
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1355/./ustreamer
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 448/sshd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 353/cupsd
pi@duet3:~ $

I have rebooted but that doesn't seem to have helped.

[luckyflyer]

I've rebooted again and now is working, temperamental little sob, quitting for the night.

[luckyflyer]

Also wanted to ask is there a security risk when using 0.0.0.0:8080

[A Former User]

@luckyflyer re security risk, there is always a risk with opening network services, but if you need to access the stream from a device other than the pi, then you don't have much choice in opening up. you could bind to a specific IP address instead of 0.0.0.0 but imho it won't increase the security of the setup, only reduce the convenience. also 0.0.0.0 will work even with wired and wireless networks on the Pi, and every address a dhcp server may allocate the pi in the future.

re temperamental, using systemd to start and restart it as needed will probably take care of the availability of the process.

[luckyflyer]

@gtj0
Can you share your Duetlapse start script with me.
Thanks

[gtj0]

@luckyflyer

The following 2 files will run ustreamer anytime the camera (/dev/video0) is plugged in.

/etc/udev/rules.d/80-ustreamer.rules:

KERNEL=="video0", SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="ustreamer@%k.service"

/etc/systemd/system/ustreamer@.service:

[Unit]
Description=UStreamer for video0
 
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ustreamer -r 640x480 --static /tmp/ --encoder=HW -m JPEG -d /dev/%i --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8080
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
 

Reboot after copying both files to their destinations.

Here's the command line to start DuetLapse and pull from ustreamer:

./DuetLapse.py -camera web -weburl http://localhost:8080/stream -duet localhost -seconds 5 -detect none

Obviously you have to customize that command line. It just captures an image every 5 seconds.

If you need to auto-start it as well, you may have to contact @Danal . I can't seem to get it to run as a systemd service.

[luckyflyer]

@gtj0 Thanks for that.

[luckyflyer]

@gtj0
Having trouble executing the file,

/etc/udev/rules.d/80-ustreamer.rules:

I get this,

pi@duet3:~ $ /etc/udev/rules.d/80-ustreamer.rules:
-bash: /etc/udev/rules.d/80-ustreamer.rules:: No such file or directory

I have also tried in

pi@duet3:~/ustreamer $

and get the same error
I also tried with sudo first but got errors.

I haven't tried the second command yet.

The command line to start Duetlapse I understand.

Unfortunately your trying to help a linux dummy

[gtj0]

@luckyflyer The two files I posted aren't meant to be executed. You just need to save them with the path's indicated and reboot.
The system automatically reads the rules files at boot and any time after that when it detects that /dev/video0 is present, it'll automatically start the ustreamer service.

[luckyflyer]

Well I guess I need to admit I don't know how to save a file in linux. I googled "how to save a file with raspbian command line" but they talk more about editing files. Can you give me the exact syntax for saving these files.

Looks like an editor like nano may be the way to save files, trying to figure it out.

[A Former User]

@gtj0 said in Need help installing ustreamer:

/etc/udev/rules.d/80-ustreamer.rules

so run sudoedit /etc/udev/rules.d/80-ustreamer.rules and paste

KERNEL=="video0", SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="ustreamer@%k.service"

into it. hit ctr + x to exit the editor (say yes to save on your way out)*.

similar for /etc/systemd/system/ustreamer@.service

*) edit: this assumes the default EDITOR enviornment variable is set to nano, but if you've changed it you probably know how to use the editor:)

[luckyflyer]

Thank you sir.

[luckyflyer]

@gtj0 ,
I have both files entered and saved, rebooted but am unable to log onto http://0.0.0.0:8080 or my printers address http://192.168.0.181:8080. I've double checked that everything is correct, I removed "--encoder=HW and -m JPEG" from /etc/systemd/system/ustreamer@.service: since they don't apply to my camera. But have tried it with and without those two items.
It starts up ok if I use the start script.

[luckyflyer]

This happens when I try to start the service manually,

pi@duet3:~ $ sudo systemctl start ustreamer@.service
Failed to start ustreamer@.service: Unit name ustreamer@.service is missing the instance name.

[A Former User]

@luckyflyer said in Need help installing ustreamer:

sudo systemctl start ustreamer@.service

this seems to be a so called template service, so it needs the name in the invocation; sudo systemctl start ustreamer@video0.service

which probably means Description=UStreamer for video0 should be changed to Description=UStreamer for %I but doesn't affect the issue at hand I believe.

[gtj0]

@luckyflyer Yeah sorry about that. I should have given more compete instructions. @bearer is correct about being a template service and has the correct command line to manually start and stop the service.

I don't see (or don't remember) whether the camera you're using is a USB cam or a MIPI cam directly attached to the Pi's camera connector. If it's a USB camera, then here are updated service and rules files that will automatically stop the service when the device disconnects..

/etc/udev/rules.d/80-ustreamer.rules:

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="video0", SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="ustreamer@%k.service"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="video0", SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", RUN+="/bin/systemctl --no-block stop ustreamer@%k.service"

/etc/systemd/system/ustreamer@.service:

[Unit]
Description=UStreamer for %I
 
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ustreamer --exit-on-parent-death -r 640x480 --static /tmp/ -d /dev/%i --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8080
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
 

As a reminder... "0.0.0.0" is a special IP address that tells server software to listen for connections on all ip addresses on the system. It can never be used to actually connect to anything.