MMM-MotionEye - surveillance video stream on your mirror!

Woody

Hi all,
I recently installed the current MM version on the current Jessie image to use on a RPI III. Everyting fine with the standard installation. Then I installed MotionEye on top but can’t get it running. I used the same config parms then in another installation but without success. I can see only a small icon on the screen where the stream should be visible. Surprisingly i can see everything on any other system using http:Ipaddress:8080. I can also switch on/off using wget but I see only a small icon on the MM system. Nothing helpful in the logs. I’m clueless at the moment. Any help will be appreciated.

Cato

@Woody Can you send a screenshot of Video Streaming URL in MotionEye?

Woody

@Cato Hi Cato, actually I don’t know what you really mean. The URL i use is http://userid:password@myipaddress:8081. This streaming URL works on any browser and on my other MM system. I’ve made also a shot of the icon I see on the screen if you mean that. Remember, when I’m URL to MM from any other system everything works as expected.

Cato

No, I want to see a screenshot of MotionEye, the section where Video Streaming URL is shown.

You say that “Then I installed MotionEye on top but can’t get it running”. What can’t you get running? MotionEye or MagicMirror or this module?

Woody

@cato O.K. Cato, now I understand what you mean, sorry. As mentioned, I installed a complete new MM from scratch. Everything went fine, MM’s standard modules are present, as expected. Then I installed MotionEye as described but on the screen I see only the small image as on the picture. This also disappears when I configure autohide and no motion is present.
I think that’s it

Cato

Can you paste your config-section of this module?

Woody

@cato

{
	                  module: 'MMM-MotionEye',
	                  position: 'lower_third',
	                  config: {
		          url: "http://userid:password@192.168.0.13:8081",
                          width: '800',
                          autoHide: 'false',
                          autoHideDelay: '60000',
                          debug: 'true'
	     }
       },

for the sake of completeness, this is my trigger URL http://MMip:8080/motioneye

Woody

@cato
made a new installation as describek by @KirAsh4 with the same result as already mentioned but found some maybe related entries in the pm2 mm-out-0.log.

> magicmirror@2.1.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

Starting MagicMirror: v2.1.1
Loading config ...
Loading module helpers ...
No helper found for module: alert.
No helper found for module: clock.
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: calendar
No helper found for module: currentweather.
No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: newsfeed
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: MMM-MotionEye
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 ... 
Starting server op port 8080 ... 
You're using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs
Server started ...
Connecting socket for: calendar
Starting node helper for: calendar
Connecting socket for: newsfeed
Starting module: newsfeed
Connecting socket for: MMM-MotionEye
Starting module: MMM-MotionEye
Sockets connected & modules started ...
Launching application.
Create new calendar fetcher for url: http://xxx
Create new calendar fetcher for url: http://xxx
Create new news fetcher for url: http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss - Interval: 300000
Hiding camera: undefined
Motion registered: undefined
Motion registered: undefined
Motion registered: undefined
Motion registered: undefined

maybe a helpful hint ???

Cato

I’m on vaccation until next week (back 8th of May) and don’t have any chance of doing any testing.

Just wondering about your configuration. The values for width, autoHide, autoHideDelay and debug is not a string and you should not have the hyphen ( ’ ) around them. Not shure if it matters, but could you try to remove them?

Woody

@Cato
Hi, I had a bit more time over the weekend. By trial an error I found out that the problem is related to my motioneye URL string providing userid and password. Apparently the Electron browser can’t handle this. After disabling authorization in Motioneye the problem was solved. In another MM installation on a Pi Zero I use Midori as browser and this works since month without problems. Thanks for MMM-Motioneye and your help in this case.