v0.0.41-alpha.2 - No services - No web services - No streaming

[jangliss]

0.0.41-alpha.2 - No services running - No stream - No web interface

Finding I'm hitting several issues, not sure if it's caused by a bad flash, or other issues. Using Wyzecam V2, flashed using 0.041-alpha.2, none of the documented ports are responding, for example not being able to see the stream, connect to rtsp, or even get a webpage to open.

# cat /etc/VERSION 
3e9737c

# grep -v "^#" /etc/openmiko.conf 
ENABLE_API=1
ENABLE_MJPEG_OVER_HTTP=1
MJPEG_FPS=15
ENABLE_AUTONIGHT=1
WIFI_MODULE=8189fs

# netstat -ane
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8081            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
tcp        0    448 192.168.35.97:22        192.168.35.20:60304     ESTABLISHED 
netstat: /proc/net/tcp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/udp6: No such file or directory
netstat: /proc/net/raw6: No such file or directory
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING      13908 /tmp/dropbear-7b604193/auth-11f8960a-9
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                       601 /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
unix  6      [ ]         DGRAM                       459 /dev/log
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                       478 
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                       771 
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                       468 
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                       619 

I don't see port 8080 listening, nor 8554.

Video capture is running.

# ps aux | grep video
16613 root       0:39 /usr/bin/videocapture /etc/videocapture_settings.json

# tail /var/log/videocapture.log
2022-12-31 01:01:23 INFO  /openmiko/build/buildroot-2016.02/output/build/ingenic_videocap-86c1576153c6897f0c3e5b350a9f963363d69161/src/capture.c:1047: Current FPS: 25.00 / Channel 0
2022-12-31 01:01:31 INFO  /openmiko/build/buildroot-2016.02/output/build/ingenic_videocap-86c1576153c6897f0c3e5b350a9f963363d69161/src/capture.c:1047: Current FPS: 25.00 / Channel 0

mjpg_streamer is not...

# ps aux | grep mjpg
24831 root       0:00 grep mjpg

What's odd here is that if I look in /etc/init.d/S70mjpg_streamer it references /dev/video4 which I don't have.

# ls /dev/video*
/dev/video0  /dev/video1  /dev/video2  /dev/video3

If I try to start it, it says it starts OK, which isn't true, I think the exit status isn't evaluating properly...

# /etc/init.d/S70mjpg_streamer start
Starting mjpg_streamer (15 fps): OK
# ps aux | grep mjpg
25515 root       0:00 grep mjpg

If I downgrade to 0.0.40 with the same contents on the SD card, everything works fine.

[tachang]

I think it might be some bug with the alpha version.

[jangliss]

I suspect possibly the same. Maybe the kernel/uboot isn't loading the drivers for the chipset for some reason. I reflashed using the same sdcard and configs a few more times, and it popped up working.

[DannySauval]

Same on my side, which is weird because it worked flawlessly for a few weeks, but crashed about a week ago. SSH works but no stream.
I installed the 0.40 version which seems to work. Hopefully I’ll find the time to work on the firmware someday.

[valantur]

/var/log/messages shows these on all my Wyze V2 experiencing this same issue:

Dec 31 16:00:28 openmiko kern.warn kernel: [ 6.752511] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
Dec 31 16:00:28 openmiko kern.err kernel: [ 28.009585] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): error, clusters badly computed (10 != 9)
Dec 31 16:00:28 openmiko kern.err kernel: [ 28.023277] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Filesystem has been set read-only

Could the SDCARD being remounted RO be related? fsck.auto is not installed so I can't fix the partition.

[martinbutt]

@valantur there is a precompiled fsck binary here that you can use to manually fix the issue.

[nosoop]

Not sure about the web interface but v4l2rtspserver doesn't consistently start for whatever reason; found that out when I was reloading the service after making modifications to videocapture_settings.json.

Had to run the following commands whenever that happened:

# restart - sometimes v4l2rtspserver doesn't load properly; you will see messages related to VIDIOC_REQBUFS and the like when it succeeds
/etc/init.d/S60camera restart

# restart night mode handling
/etc/init.d/S75autonight restart

[NearlyWas]

v4l2rtspserver doesnt start for me, either. All other services are ok.
@nosoop 's tip worked: /etc/init.d/S60camera restart
[0.041-alpha.2, Wizecam V2]

[whitewhidow]

i have the same issue i tried with v0.0.40

i can ssh into the v2, but no webpage, or stream, or antyhing is available :/

i tried the above, but it did not help ? anyone able to assist?

[carefulcomputer]

same issue.

[whitewhidow]

for me, it DOES now work with v0.0.40, but the issue was the following:

i had first installed v0.0.41-alpha.2, which did not work.
Then i installed v0.0.40, and it also did not work, but then i noticed the following: even after flashing back to original firmware and fashing back to v0.0.40, it connected to my wifi, without me putting a new wpa_supplicant file !!
Which lead me to realise that it was still using previous config files from v0.0.41-alpha.2 !!!

So i did a reset, by holding the reset button for 5 seconds, which makes it clear all config files, it then dropped from my network, as it no longer had a wifi config, i then replaced the wifi config, and now it works fine on v0.0.40

[carefulcomputer]

@whitewhidow , didn't work for me. I am on 24ca9d2 (.40) , wiped all settings and still did not work. Maybe I am not doing things in right other. Here is what I gathered from your post..

1. While SD card is out, and camera is on , hold reset button for 5 seconds to wipe existing config.
2. On SD card put only config/overlay/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
3. Turn camera off and put sdcard in.
4. Restart camera

Is that it ?

[martinbutt]

@carefulcomputer you should reformat or fsck the SD card too.

I decided to merge together all of my changes from the last six months and release them for testing. This should address the issue that it stops working after a while. Testing is appreciated, and you can file an issue in that repo if you have any problems.

[richarddirocco]

I updated to the new release and still have the same problem. Sometimes I can manually start the RTSP server using /etc/init.d/S60camera start but other times, I get an error:

/etc/init.d/S60camera start
Adding necessary camera modules
root: Determined image sensor model as jxf22
insmod: can't insert '/lib/modules/3.10.14/kernel/drivers/media/platform/sensors/jxf22/sensor_jxf22.ko': File exists
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Audio is set to disabled in openmiko.conf. Skipping starting ffmpeg
Setting up 4 v4l2loopback device(s)
root: Starting video frame capture process
root: Starting v4l2rtspserver
VIDIOC_REQBUFS: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDIOC_STREAMOFF: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDIOC_REQBUFS: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDIOC_REQBUFS: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDIOC_STREAMOFF: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDIOC_REQBUFS: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDIOC_REQBUFS: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDIOC_STREAMOFF: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDIOC_REQBUFS: Inappropriate ioctl for device
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc

I'm not using a SWAP file. Memory seems almost full when it doesn't start at boot. Here's the output from cat /proc/meminfo on a boot where the v412rtspserver didn't start but did run after issuing /etc/init.d/S60camera start .

MemTotal: 91844 kB
MemFree: 11996 kB
Buffers: 432 kB
Cached: 7204 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 7064 kB
Inactive: 5780 kB
Active(anon): 5244 kB
Inactive(anon): 44 kB
Active(file): 1820 kB
Inactive(file): 5736 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 28 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 5228 kB
Mapped: 11032 kB
Shmem: 80 kB
Slab: 4256 kB
SReclaimable: 1508 kB
SUnreclaim: 2748 kB
KernelStack: 584 kB
PageTables: 376 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 45920 kB
Committed_AS: 82796 kB
VmallocTotal: 1048372 kB
VmallocUsed: 37416 kB
VmallocChunk: 1008376 kB

Edit: Tested with a SWAP file on the SD card. Was able to reboot the camera 6 times and the RTSP server started each time without issue. So my issue seems to be insufficient memory without a swap file.