MMM-RTSPStream not showing video

[vonarstonehelm]

So, I am at my wits end with this, and am fairly certain that I am losing more hair than I should over this issue. So I have the module installed, all dependencies installed and I have tried a lot of different config settings to get this to work.

My current config section looks like this:

{
                           module: 'MMM-RTSPStream',
                           position: 'middle_center',
                           config: {
                               autoStart: true,
                               rotateStreams: false,
                               showSnapWhenPaused: false,
//                              moduleWidth: 354,
//                              moduleHeight: 242,
                                               localPlayer: 'omxplayer',
                               stream1: {
                                   name: 'Cam1',
                                   url: 'rtsp://admin:*******@192.168.1.242',
                       snapshotUrl: '',
                       snapshotRefresh: 10, // Seconds
                       frameRate: "30",
                       port: 9999,
                                    }
                           }
                 },

With this setup I get a white box with no video.

Here are my logs from pm2:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/config $ rm /home/pi/.pm2/logs/*
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/config $ pm2 start mm
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0)
[PM2] [mm](0) ✓
[PM2] Process successfully started
┌─────────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name    │ id │ version │ mode │ pid   │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem      │ user │ watching │
├─────────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm          │ 0  │ N/A     │ fork │ 11239 │ online │ 0       │ 0s     │ 0%  │ 2.5 MB   │ pi   │ disabled │
│ omx_stream1 │ 1  │ N/A     │ fork │ 11224 │ online │ 10841   │ 0s     │ 0%  │ 2.7 MB   │ pi   │ disabled │
└─────────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/config $ pm2 logs
[TAILING] Tailing last 15 lines for [all] processes (change the value with --lines option)
/home/pi/.pm2/pm2.log last 15 lines:
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:39:50: PM2 log: App [mm:0] online
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:39:53: PM2 log: App [omx_stream1:1] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:39:53: PM2 log: App [omx_stream1:1] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:39:53: PM2 log: App [omx_stream1:1] online
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:39:56: PM2 log: App [omx_stream1:1] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:39:56: PM2 log: App [omx_stream1:1] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:39:56: PM2 log: App [omx_stream1:1] online
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:40:00: PM2 log: Stopping app:omx_stream1 id:1
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:40:00: PM2 log: pid=11336 msg=failed to kill - retrying in 100ms
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:40:00: PM2 log: pid=11336 msg=failed to kill - retrying in 100ms
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:40:00: PM2 log: pid=11336 msg=failed to kill - retrying in 100ms
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:40:00: PM2 log: pid=11336 msg=failed to kill - retrying in 100ms
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:40:00: PM2 log: pid=11336 msg=failed to kill - retrying in 100ms
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:40:00: PM2 log: App [omx_stream1:1] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2        | 2019-02-08T21:40:00: PM2 log: pid=11336 msg=process killed

/home/pi/.pm2/logs/omx-stream1-error.log last 15 lines:
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/mm-error.log last 15 lines:
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/mm-out.log last 15 lines:
0|mm       | Module helper loaded: MMM-RTSPStream
0|mm       | All module helpers loaded.
0|mm       | Starting server on port 8080 ...
0|mm       | Server started ...
0|mm       | Connecting socket for: updatenotification
0|mm       | Connecting socket for: calendar
0|mm       | Starting node helper for: calendar
0|mm       | Connecting socket for: newsfeed
0|mm       | Starting module: newsfeed
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...

0|mm  | Create new calendar fetcher for url: http://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics - Interval: 300000
0|mm  | Create new calendar fetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/vonarstonehelm%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics - Interval: 300000
0|mm  | Create new news fetcher for url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml - Interval: 300000
0|mm  | Starting stream stream1 using: omxplayer --avdict rtsp_transport:tcp --win 624,302,976,544 --live --video_queue 4 --fps 30 --no-osd rtsp://admin:jeffrey69@192.168.1.242
0|mm  | Starting PM2 for omx_stream1
PM2      | App [omx_stream1:1] starting in -fork mode-
PM2      | App [omx_stream1:1] online
0|mm     | PM2 started for omx_stream1
1|omx_stream1  | have a nice day ;)
PM2            | App [omx_stream1:1] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2            | App [omx_stream1:1] starting in -fork mode-
PM2            | App [omx_stream1:1] online
1|omx_stream1  | have a nice day ;)
PM2            | App [omx_stream1:1] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2            | App [omx_stream1:1] starting in -fork mode-
PM2            | App [omx_stream1:1] online

Clearly there is an issue with omx, however I can’t seem to find a reason why it is quitting and restarting, and I can’t seem to find where omx sends its logs. I also know the stream works because I can copy/paste that into VLC and it plays just fine.

Suggestions? Recommendations?

Thank you in advance

edit: double checked the stream in VLC and the codec is h264 - mpeg-4 avc (part 10) (h264). Not sure if this matters or not.

[evroom]

@vonarstonehelm

Hi,

it is has been some time since I used MMM-RTSPStream, but you can try following and provide some more info.

$ which omxplayer

$ vcgencmd codec_enabled MPG2

omxplayer only logs when asked for (–genlog).

Try running omxplayer from the command line first:

$ cd
$ rm -f omxplayer.log

$ omxplayer --genlog --win "0 0 800 480" rtsp://admin:*******@192.168.1.242

or:

$ omxplayer --genlog --avdict rtsp_transport:tcp --live --video_queue 4 --fps 30 --win "0 0 800 480" rtsp://admin:*******@192.168.1.242

$ ls -als omxplayer.log

$ sudo find . -name omxplayer.log

And it appears you have a few mistakes / omitted parameters in your config.js:

moduleWidth: 590,
moduleHeight: 332,

ffmpegPort: 9999,

width: 590,
height: 332,

port: 9999, is not a valid parameter.

Furthermore, your URL seems a bit basic, but that probably depends on the camera.
For example, for my Axis camera I need this:

rtsp://user:password@192.168.178.56/axis-media/media.amp?resolution=640x360

[BKeyport]

I suspect you’re not addressing the video correctly.

https://www.ispyconnect.com/sources.aspx - check your camera model for full URLs.

[vonarstonehelm]

@bkeyport Actually found a workaround using iframe and a HLS stream from blue iris. Have a new issue now that I am trying to figure out.