[MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras

[barnosch]

the two streams work great again now, after pulling the older version.
Great. Thank you very much.
Also your new VLC based module sounds great.
But i guess, you maybe should create a whole new module for it?

[shbatm]

@barnosch said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

Also your new VLC based module sounds great.
But i guess, you maybe should create a whole new module for it?

The plan right now was to just leave it as another option for the localPlayer. OMXPlayer will still be an option for now as well. I don’t know if I’ll have time to split it out completely, but that would be much cleaner.

[shbatm]

@cr4z33

You’ll want the following settings which should give you 1 blank video box that does not show anything until you press play.

autoStart: false,
rotateStreams: true,
rotateStreamTimeout: 0,
localPlayer: 'omxplayer',
remotePlayer: 'none',
showSnapWhenPaused: false,
remoteSnaps: false,

I’m assuming you’re seeing the same glitch that is plaguing the last OMXPlayer version of this module. I’m working on it today to try and find what I broke. In the meantime, try reverting back and seeing if that fixes the issue. I just tested the following notification on the VLC version and it worked as expected, so it’s got to be something with omxplayer.

{
notification: "RTSP-PLAY",
payload: "stream3"
}

[Cr4z33]

@shbatm although I am not a developer I agree with you.
Whenever I tried something different from normal module usage involving omxplayer it always ended up with a mess lol! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Going to try what you are suggesting here.

Can’t wait to see the VLC implementation (it just works as intended). :smiling_face_with_heart-eyes:

[Cr4z33]

@shbatm nope the simultaneous streams have now dropped from 7 to 2, but still not what I want (aka a single stream). :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

Gonna try the develop branch and see how it is doing right now.

[shbatm]

@cr4z33 Still looking into it, but I just thought of something… it doesn’t look like you’re calling RTSP-STOP on the old stream anywhere when changing channels so right now it’s going to keep starting streams every time–there’s no “1 at a time” method when controlling it from notifications… yet.

[Cr4z33]

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[shbatm]

@djuscha I’ve reverted the changes that I think broke the master channel. Please try updating your module to the current master branch and test.

[shbatm]

@cr4z33 Added something that might help. Please use the develop branch and update your change channel commands to :

{
notification: “RTSP-PLAY”,
payload: { stream:“stream1”, stopOthers: true }
}

EDIT: Nevermind, don’t do that. I fixed the glitch on the develop channel that was starting more than one stream when rotateStreams: true was set. Please try that and see if it works now.

[anthony6608]

@shbatm Hey, I updated issue #33 with the errors I am seeing when you have a chance. Also, should I run this update although I am using the VLCplayer method? Let me know what you think. Thanks again for all your help!

[BKeyport]

I’m unable to get this module to load and run with FFMPeg anymore - as of 3PM 1/4/19 (Pacific Time (Seattle))

Update was applied as of that time.

I don’t know how to retrieve logs.

– Bug filed on github - https://github.com/shbatm/MMM-RTSPStream/issues/34

[shbatm]

@djuscha, @Cr4z33 @barnosch @anthony6608 @bhepler @evroom, and anyone else using this module:

I just pushed a bunch of bug fixes for OMX Player to the develop branch. Please test and let me know if you are still seeing the same issues.

Fixes include:

• App closing now spawns a new process to actually kill the OMX streams, it was getting cut off in the middle of closing everything due to it being an async process and leaving streams open.
• Wait for DOM to be shown before calling to start the streams–this was causing the Fullscreen on Resume problems.
• Only start one stream at a time if we’re in RotateStreams mode
• Can jump to a specific stream in RotateStreams mode using notifications
• Fixed and cleaned up all notifications and control from other modules
• Fixed broken key bindings after MMM-KeyBindings upgrade
• Fixed issue where module was trying to connect to PM2 while it was already connected (e.g. stop stream 1 and start stream 2 back to back).

To switch branches:

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RTSPStream
sudo rm -R node_modules/
git fetch --al
git checkout develop
git pull
npm install

[evroom]

@shbatm
I installed the new changes according your procedure.
I am using omxplayer for a RTSP stream of a IP cam.
I do not use rotation or any other fancy stuff.
I see the same issue as before: omx_stream1 has status stopped and when I click on the play button it also will not start.
I stopped and started mm 2 times and even did a complete reboot
It only can be started using

$ pm2 start omx_stream1

Another restart of mm shows that the omx_stream1 is being stopped, but never restarted.
After ever mm restart I will need to perform:

$ pm2 start omx_stream1

[evroom]

I noticed this in pm2 logs (do not see this after every mm restart):

0|mm  | Connecting socket for: MMM-RTSPStream
0|mm  | PM2: Stopping all OMXPlayer Streams...
0|mm  | Sockets connected & modules started ...
0|mm  | Launching application.
0|mm  | PM2: Checking if omx_stream1 is running...
0|mm  | PM2: Stopping omx_stream1...
PM2      | Stopping app:omx_stream1 id:1
1|omx_stream1  | Video codec omx-h264 width 640 height 360 profile 77 fps 30.000000
1|omx_stream1  | Subtitle count: 0, state: off, index: 1, delay: 0
1|omx_stream1  | V:PortSettingsChanged: 640x360@30.00 interlace:0 deinterlace:0 anaglyph:0 par:1.00 display:0 layer:0 alpha:255 aspectMode:0
1|omx_stream1  | have a nice day ;)
PM2            | App [omx_stream1:1] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2            | pid=2104 msg=process killed

In this case it was tried to start the stream, but it exited.
Starting it by hand makes it work again.

[Cr4z33]

@shbatm I ran the develop update.

With omxplayer (and autoStart: false) I see stream labels changing when giving a voice command, but then no stream is starting.

With vlc nothing happens, not a single stream starting by voice command.

[djuscha]

@shbatm

have made yesterday update without develoop only

git pull
npm install

everything runs :)

 Name        │ id │ mode │ status │ ↺      │ cpu │ memory │
├─────────────┼────┼──────┼────────┼────────┼─────┼────────┼──────────┤
│ mm          │ 0  │ N/A  │ fork   │ online │ 0   │ 0%     │ 2.5 MB   │
│ omx_stream1 │ 1  │ N/A  │ fork   │ online │ 17  │ 0%     │ 2.8 MB   │
│ omx_stream2 │ 2  │ N/A  │ fork   │ online │ 6   │ 0%     │ 2.8 MB   

Many Thanks .

[shbatm]

@evroom said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

after every mm restart

There was a problem with the steams not stopping on a restart, so the module sends a stop command first whenever it starts, do you have autoStart: true in your config?

[shbatm]

@cr4z33 said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

With omxplayer (and autoStart: false) I see stream labels changing when giving a voice command, but then no stream is starting.

OK. I’ll check this later today, the notification RTSP-PLAY should switch and start the stream so that’s an issue.

[shbatm]

@Cr4z33 try inserting this.playing = true; at Line 574 as the first line in the if statement and see if that works. I’ll test later today.

EDIT: Just pushed an update. Please try the latest release in develop

[evroom]

@shbatm said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

There was a problem with the steams not stopping on a restart, so the module sends a stop command first whenever it starts, do you have autoStart: true in your config?

Yes, I have.

Just to understand, when you start fresh, there is no omx_stream1 under pm2 list.
When you start your first stream, it is first visible under pm2 list, right?

Till now I was able to start the stream with pm2 start, but after removing the stream (pm2 remove omx_stream1), I cannot get it to work anymore.
MM restart, reboot, nothing helps.
And pm2 start now says:

pi@MagicPi:~ $ pm2 start omx_stream1
[PM2][ERROR] script not found : /home/pi/omx_stream1
script not found : /home/pi/omx_stream1
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem      │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼─────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm       │ 0  │ 2.5.0   │ fork │ 811 │ online │ 0       │ 4m     │ 0%  │ 2.5 MB   │ pi   │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘

Which makes sort of sense.

After MM restart, pm2 logs shows:

0|mm  | Connecting socket for: MMM-RTSPStream
0|mm  | PM2: Stopping all OMXPlayer Streams...
0|mm  | Sockets connected & modules started ...
0|mm  | Launching application.

Will revert back to the master branch and try again.