Omxplayer and Bullseye

plainbroke

@Egnos
Go back to Buster it all works there. Bullseye and rstp do not really play well in my opinion. VLC is a mess for me in Bullseye. Buster Omxplayer works again with rtsp… Wish someone much smarter than me could fix that problem with Bullseye. I went as far back as Stretch to get a wireless dongle to work with one of my RPi’s…

Egnos

Thanks @plainbroke which version of buster do you recommend? The last One?

Is there a quick way to transfer the modules to the new MicroSD … without having to re-download all the modules again?

BKeyport

@Egnos sadly, I wouldn’t even recommend Buster. OMX crashes everything regularly here. I’ve taken to using the camera’s snapshot feature, and MMM-Proxyimage to display a frame every two seconds to keep things stable.

From my point of view, it’s been a race to see who can bloat out the most lately, electron, camera providers, etc. Leaving our poor little hobby computers in the dust.

Egnos

@BKeyport so would you go on a Stretch?

sdetweil

@Egnos latest node/npm don’t work on stretch, and thus electron

Egnos

Windows?! 🤣

sdetweil

@Egnos most of the GPIO stuff doesn’t work on windows…

Egnos

@sdetweil in fact mine was a joke!

So which OS does the least damage?

plainbroke

@Egnos
I am currently using the latest Buster with 5 different rtsp cameras ( i use carousel) and I have no problems viewing them.
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
Just my 2 cents. Unless someone much smarter than me can fix Omxplayer in Bullseye. I have resigned myself to stay on Buster until I can’t anymore…

plainbroke

@Egnos
Use sdetweil’s backupRestore module it makes it pretty easy to reinstall it all into a working order and it saves your config.js and custom.css very important in my case I do not want to ever go through all the hours spent trial and error testing to get my mirror the way I wanted it…

sdetweil

@plainbroke buster is the Legacy image

Egnos

@plainbroke said in Omxplayer and Bullseye:

Use sdetweil’s backupRestore module it makes it pretty easy to reinstall it all into a working order and it saves your config.js and custom.css very important in my case I do not want to ever go through all the hours spent trial and error testing to get my mirror the way I wanted it…

Thanks @plainbroke for the advise and thanks @sdetweil for creating the script.

I will install on a new MicroSD Buster and test the operation.

Egnos

@plainbroke said in Omxplayer and Bullseye:

I am currently using the latest Buster with 5 different rtsp cameras ( i use carousel) and I have no problems viewing them.

Do you use a module in particular to view the stream of the cameras or do you launch omxplayer outside the MM?

Thanks

Egnos

sdetweil said in Omxplayer and Bullseye:

buster is the Legacy image

What changes from the “normal” version?

BKeyport

@Egnos nothing. It’s just the previous release.

plainbroke

@Egnos
I use MMM-RTSPStream I have 5 separate instances running, without any issues as long as the cameras are up and running.

Egnos

@plainbroke is there a particular reason why you use different instances of the same module instead of multiple streams in configuration (e.g. stream1, stream2, stream3, etc.)?

Thanks

plainbroke

@Egnos
I have one camera show at a time using mmm-carousel, they use the full screen one at a time in various places in my line up of modules. I have 40+ modules running on my Mirror .

 module: "MMM-Carousel",
config: {
 transitionInterval: 43000,
 ignoreModules: ["MMM-DynamicWeather", "MMM-ModuleScheduler"],
        mode: "slides",
        slides: [
                ["MMM-CalendarExt3"],
                ["calendar", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["facts", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["iFrame"],
                ["MMM-ATM", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Bored", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream"],
                ["MMM-CalvinAndHobbes", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-CloneWarsQuotes", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Cocktails", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-covid19", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-DailyQuote", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-DarkSkyForecast", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Dogs", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-DumbAssCatFacts", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream2"],
                ["MMM-EARTH", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Evil", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-EyeCandy", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Gas", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-GmailFeed", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-History", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-icanhazdadjoke", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-ImagesPhotos", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream3"],
                ["MMM-MotionEye"],
                ["MMM-MyWordOfTheDay", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-NetworkScanner"],
                ["MMM-NFL", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Oneliner", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-OpenWeatherForecast", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-quote-of-the-day", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream4"],
                ["MMM-RAIN-MAP"],
                ["MMM-rfacts", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-SimpleLogo", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-SingleStock", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-Todoist", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["on-this-day", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["random_quotes", "clock", "compliments"],
                ["MMM-RTSPStream5"]

Egnos

@plainbroke said in Omxplayer and Bullseye:

@Egnos
I am currently using the latest Buster with 5 different rtsp cameras ( i use carousel) and I have no problems viewing them.
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
Just my 2 cents. Unless someone much smarter than me can fix Omxplayer in Bullseye. I have resigned myself to stay on Buster until I can’t anymore…

Hi @plainbroke , I installed the Buster as per your advice and for now everything works fine! Thanks!
I just have some problems with the bluetooth connection between the RPI and the bluetooth speaker (Nest Audio …), after a certain time of inactivity of a few hours the bluetooth disconnects!

Have you also had this problem with you?

plainbroke

@Egnos
Sorry, I do not use the bluetooth feature at all on my MM, so I am of no help in that area…