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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
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    No stream output from webcam. No errors raised.

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      hsalas @Mykle1
      last edited by hsalas

      @Mykle1 Hi Mykle1, I haven’t however the stream should start as soon as the magicmirror comes up without me saying anything to the voice control. I changed the following to true in camera.js:

      display: true

      I have the same setup on windows pc and it works; however, when doing the same with the same webcam on the raspberry I get no stream.

      Windows PC

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        yax51
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        I am having the exact same issue. I have also made the same changes that you have.
        Were you able to get it fixed?

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          Axel51 @yax51
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          I have the same problem with my usb cam.
          So, i installed Motion and then I used the iShow module to show the stream of the cam.
          but that’s was not easy.

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            yax51 @Axel51
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            @Axel51 I wasn’t able to find any iShow module…Can you send a link>

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              Axel51 @yax51
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              @yax51 https://github.com/l0b5ter/iShow

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                yax51 @Axel51
                last edited by

                @Axel51 Thanks! I’ll check it out!

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                  yax51 @hsalas
                  last edited by

                  @hsalas After thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that it had more to do with the power usage of the raspberry pi than any sort of code/module issue. I noticed I was getting low power notices while just trying to use the webcam. Even using webcamoid would lag, stutter, and give those errors. So I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a mini desktop, installed MM and the modules (with some tweaking to get pyaudio working) I had no issues, and everything worked perfectly.

                  Which means it’s either the pi itself not having enough power, the webcam you are using is drawing too much power, or a combination of both.

                  Might be worth exploring

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