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Today's Topics:
1. somthing strange (Richard Bown)
2. Re: somthing strange (chuck elliot)
3. Re: somthing strange (Richard Bown)
4. Re: somthing strange (Richard Bown)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 09:13:39 +0100
From: Richard Bown <rich...@g8jvm.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Motion-user] somthing strange
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motion v 4.3.1
I have a logitech 270 usb camera
up to recently its been working fine
on v4l2_pallete 8
but now if I reboot or a power failure its a pig to get video from it
with motion
,using a Odroid XU4 octal core ARM SBC and its headless, so all video
from it it on the http ports
once its running its fine, sometimes fixed by power cycling the SBC ,
which I dont like doing
Am I using the correct v4l2 pallette for this USB camera.
OS on the SBC is ubuntu 20.04LTS
any ideas
on the video feed via http its just the grey screen with "unable to open
video device"
Thanks
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Best wishes /73
Richard Bown
Email : rich...@g8jvm.com
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 09:39:24 +0100
From: chuck elliot <c.ell...@pobox.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] somthing strange
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I have same camera. If you run motion without the
palette setting it chooses type 1 (MJPG) saying 0 is
also compatible. This works fine.
CE
On 03/10/2020 9:13 am, Richard Bown wrote:
> motion v 4.3.1
>
> I have a logitech 270 usb camera
>
> up to recently its been working fine
>
> on v4l2_pallete 8
>
> but now if I reboot or a power failure its a pig to get video from it
> with motion
>
> ,using a Odroid XU4 octal core ARM SBC and its headless, so all video
> from it it on the http ports
>
> once its running its fine, sometimes fixed by power cycling the SBC ,
> which I dont like doing
>
> Am I using the correct v4l2 pallette for this USB camera.
>
> OS on the SBC is ubuntu 20.04LTS
>
> any ideas
>
> on the video feed via http its just the grey screen with "unable to
> open video device"
>
>
> Thanks
>
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 10:43:00 +0100
From: Richard Bown <rich...@g8jvm.com>
To: chuck elliot <c.ell...@pobox.com>,
"motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> Motion discussion list"
<motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] somthing strange
Message-ID: <3b2ff720-e2a4-8a72-30d1-2467469be...@g8jvm.com>
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Thanks Chuck
Just tried that and still not playing, it has been working for a couple
of years +
I can plug the C270 in to the USB skt on the laptop which is running
Linux Mint 20, which is based on Ubuntu 20.04LTS
which is what the Odroid XU4 SBC is running, it was playing up before
the OS was upgraded from ubuntu 18.04LTS to ubuntu 20.04LTS
odroid@odroid:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
odroid@odroid:~$ tail /var/log/motion/motion.log
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 10:22:10] mlp_retry: Retrying until
successful connection with camera
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:10] v4l2_device_capability: Device
does not support capturing.
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:10] vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:11] v4l2_device_capability: Device
does not support capturing.
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:11] vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 10:22:11] motion_init: Could not fetch
initial image from camera
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 10:22:11] motion_init: Motion continues
using width and height from config file(s)
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 10:22:20] mlp_retry: Retrying until
successful connection with camera
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:20] v4l2_device_capability: Device
does not support capturing.
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:20] vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open
odroid@odroid:~$ ps ax|grep motion
? 753 ???????? SLsl?? 0:09 /usr/bin/motion -d 5 -n -c
/etc/motion/motion.conf
odroid@odroid:~$ id odroid
uid=1000(odroid) gid=1000(odroid)
groups=1000(odroid),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk),7(lp),15(kmem),20(dialout),21(fax),22(voice),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),37(operator),44(video),46(plugdev),
50(staff),60(games),100(users),104(input),105(crontab),108(ssh),109(netdev),112(bluetooth),114(lightdm),115(nopasswdlogin),117(nm-openvpn),118(lpadmin),120(scanner),123(pulse),124(pulse-access)
odroid@odroid:~$ ls -l /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Oct? 3 10:13 /dev/video0
I'm pulling my hair out with this one, I cant see any reason why this
has stopped working, the SBC has 3 USB ports, all have been tried.
Motion is started as a service, so its not running as a user
any ideas why?
This cam is needed as it covers the front door
TIA Richard
On 03/10/2020 09:39, chuck elliot wrote:
> I have same camera. If you run motion without the
>
> palette setting it chooses type 1 (MJPG) saying 0 is
>
> also compatible. This works fine.
>
> CE
>
>
> On 03/10/2020 9:13 am, Richard Bown wrote:
>> motion v 4.3.1
>>
>> I have a logitech 270 usb camera
>>
>> up to recently its been working fine
>>
>> on v4l2_pallete 8
>>
>> but now if I reboot or a power failure its a pig to get video from it
>> with motion
>>
>> ,using a Odroid XU4 octal core ARM SBC and its headless, so all video
>> from it it on the http ports
>>
>> once its running its fine, sometimes fixed by power cycling the SBC ,
>> which I dont like doing
>>
>> Am I using the correct v4l2 pallette for this USB camera.
>>
>> OS on the SBC is ubuntu 20.04LTS
>>
>> any ideas
>>
>> on the video feed via http its just the grey screen with "unable to
>> open video device"
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
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Best wishes /73
Richard Bown
Email : rich...@g8jvm.com
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 12:15:48 +0100
From: Richard Bown <rich...@g8jvm.com>
To: chuck elliot <c.ell...@pobox.com>, Motion discussion list
<motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] somthing strange
Message-ID: <7e3dbf41-1252-a1bc-03dd-6f2220a0b...@g8jvm.com>
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HI Chuck
log level set to 7
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:01] main: Motion thread 1 restart
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:01] motion_start_thread: Camera ID:
1 is from /etc/motion/camera2.conf
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:01] motion_start_thread: Camera ID:
1 Camera Name: (null) Device: /dev/video0
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:01] motion_init: Camera 1 started:
motion detection Enabled
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:01] vid_start: Opening V4L2 device
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:01] v4l2_device_open: Using
videodevice /dev/video0 and input -1
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:01] v4l2_device_capability: - STREAMING
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:01] v4l2_device_capability: Device
does not support capturing.
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:01] vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:01] motion_init: Could not fetch
initial image from camera
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:01] motion_init: Motion continues
using width and height from config file(s)
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:01] image_ring_resize: Resizing
pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:01] image_ring_resize: Resizing
pre_capture buffer to 4 items
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 12:03:10] mlp_retry: Retrying until
successful connection with camera
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:10] vid_start: Opening V4L2 device
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:10] v4l2_device_open: Using
videodevice /dev/video0 and input -1
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:10] v4l2_device_capability: - STREAMING
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:10] v4l2_device_capability: Device
does not support capturing.
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 12:03:10] vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open
Camera work fine on the laptop with the other linux programs
I'm beginning to wonder if motion has changed and is now asking the
camrea to do something it cant whereas before
it would accept the stream, looks like its now telling the camera to
capture and failing , very weird
Richard
On 03/10/2020 11:52, chuck elliot wrote:
> You could try upping the log level to get more clues
>
> as to what is happening... I assume that you've checked that
>
> videodevice is set to /dev/video0?
>
> Will the camera work with xawtv or cheese etc?
>
>
>
> On 03/10/2020 10:43 am, Richard Bown wrote:
>> Thanks Chuck
>>
>> Just tried that and still not playing, it has been working for a
>> couple of years +
>>
>> I can plug the C270 in to the USB skt on the laptop which is running
>> Linux Mint 20, which is based on Ubuntu 20.04LTS
>>
>> which is what the Odroid XU4 SBC is running, it was playing up before
>> the OS was upgraded from ubuntu 18.04LTS to ubuntu 20.04LTS
>>
>> odroid@odroid:~$ lsusb
>>
>> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
>>
>> odroid@odroid:~$ tail /var/log/motion/motion.log
>> [1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 10:22:10] mlp_retry: Retrying until
>> successful connection with camera
>> [1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:10] v4l2_device_capability: Device
>> does not support capturing.
>> [1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:10] vid_start: V4L2 device failed
>> to open
>> [1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:11] v4l2_device_capability: Device
>> does not support capturing.
>> [1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:11] vid_start: V4L2 device failed
>> to open
>> [1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 10:22:11] motion_init: Could not fetch
>> initial image from camera
>> [1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 10:22:11] motion_init: Motion continues
>> using width and height from config file(s)
>> [1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Oct 03 10:22:20] mlp_retry: Retrying until
>> successful connection with camera
>> [1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:20] v4l2_device_capability: Device
>> does not support capturing.
>> [1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Oct 03 10:22:20] vid_start: V4L2 device failed
>> to open
>> odroid@odroid:~$ ps ax|grep motion
>> ? 753 ???????? SLsl?? 0:09 /usr/bin/motion -d 5 -n -c
>> /etc/motion/motion.conf
>> odroid@odroid:~$ id odroid
>> uid=1000(odroid) gid=1000(odroid)
>> groups=1000(odroid),4(adm),5(tty),6(disk),7(lp),15(kmem),20(dialout),21(fax),22(voice),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),37(operator),44(video),46(plugdev),
>>
>> 50(staff),60(games),100(users),104(input),105(crontab),108(ssh),109(netdev),112(bluetooth),114(lightdm),115(nopasswdlogin),117(nm-openvpn),118(lpadmin),120(scanner),123(pulse),124(pulse-access)
>>
>>
>>
>> odroid@odroid:~$ ls -l /dev/video0
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Oct? 3 10:13 /dev/video0
>>
>> I'm pulling my hair out with this one, I cant see any reason why this
>> has stopped working, the SBC has 3 USB ports, all have been tried.
>>
>> Motion is started as a service, so its not running as a user
>>
>> any ideas why?
>>
>> This cam is needed as it covers the front door
>>
>> TIA Richard
>>
>> On 03/10/2020 09:39, chuck elliot wrote:
>>> I have same camera. If you run motion without the
>>>
>>> palette setting it chooses type 1 (MJPG) saying 0 is
>>>
>>> also compatible. This works fine.
>>>
>>> CE
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/10/2020 9:13 am, Richard Bown wrote:
>>>> motion v 4.3.1
>>>>
>>>> I have a logitech 270 usb camera
>>>>
>>>> up to recently its been working fine
>>>>
>>>> on v4l2_pallete 8
>>>>
>>>> but now if I reboot or a power failure its a pig to get video from
>>>> it with motion
>>>>
>>>> ,using a Odroid XU4 octal core ARM SBC and its headless, so all
>>>> video from it it on the http ports
>>>>
>>>> once its running its fine, sometimes fixed by power cycling the SBC
>>>> , which I dont like doing
>>>>
>>>> Am I using the correct v4l2 pallette for this USB camera.
>>>>
>>>> OS on the SBC is ubuntu 20.04LTS
>>>>
>>>> any ideas
>>>>
>>>> on the video feed via http its just the grey screen with "unable to
>>>> open video device"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/motion-user
>>> https://motion-project.github.io/
>>>
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>>
--
Best wishes /73
Richard Bown
Email : rich...@g8jvm.com
HTTP : http://www.g8jvm.com
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