The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]

alphanumeric said:

I don't use Chrome, only ever use Edge and sometimes IE.

Just so you'll have a closure as to what causes your mition eye to freeze. Or why you can't connect to the pi cam with the other streaming method. Then, uninstall the chrome.

badrobot said:

Just so you'll have a closure as to what causes your mition eye to freeze. Or why you can't connect to the pi cam with the other streaming method. Then, uninstall the chrome.

I may try it. Just swapped in a 16 gig Lexar to replace the 32 gig. The other two are running 16 gig Lexar cards. Fresh install of motion eye. I'm leaning towards Motion Eye having an issue with the WIFI chip on the 3B"+". The other two 3B's are fine with no lockups.
I may also swap my Raspbian card back in and just let it run overnight to make sure there isn't an issue with that Pi 3B+.

Chrome works with Motion Eye, it shows an unsecure warning but connects. The unsecure site is why IE and Edge have issues. I may go set some passwords etc in motion eye and see what that does.

Went in and set basic authentication for the stream. And set a password. Now IE and Edge prompt for the password. IE still prompts to download a file and says it can't connect to this page. Edge says it can't access the download directory.
As far as Motion Eye goes I get a better video from the web interface and I can enable recording from there. The camera connection was lost once while I was doing all this on the Pi 3B+. It came back on its own, but that means its not the 32 gig SD Card thats causing it. It will likely fail again. I can see it being replaced with a 3B(not a +) at some point. I can't use the 5Ghz WIFI anyway, it will not connect from Motion Eye on the 5Ghz. It works fine from Raspbian though.

OK, I can access the PI3B+ Raspbian PiVideo feed from Chrome. Its lagging big time, but I can view it. I'm just going to leave it running and see if it glitches or not. Need to take a break from this anyway, neck is getting sore again.

Posted my two issues on his GitHub page. The Pi3B+ locking up, and not being able to access the video stream from IE or Edge.

The PiVideo really lags bad? Same resolution I used in Motion Eye. I don't have the ambition to tweak it at the moment. I want to just let it run and see if it locks up or not. I'll just let it run all day and all night.

Maybe your resolution is a bit high for your wifi to handle?

Same resolution I'm using in Motion Eye, which only slightly lags sometimes. The PiVideo is on 5GHz (should be faster) and the Motion Eye are on 2.4GHz. I may switch it to 2.4 and see what it looks like. I'm going to give this a try too eventualy. Install On Raspbian · ccrisan/motioneye Wiki · GitHub .
I want to just let that Pi run for a while to see if it locks up in plain Jain Raspbian before I do anything else with it. I want to sort out if its a hardware issue or a software issue. I'm leaning towards it being a software issue in Motioneye. Namely a WIFI driver issue that only affects the 3B+​.

alphanumeric said:

Same resolution I'm using in Motion Eye, which only slightly lags sometimes. The PiVideo is on 5GHz (should be faster) and the Motion Eye are on 2.4GHz. I may switch it to 2.4 and see what it looks like. I'm going to give this a try too eventualy. Install On Raspbian · ccrisan/motioneye Wiki · GitHub .
I want to just let that Pi run for a while to see if it locks up in plain Jain Raspbian before I do anything else with it. I want to sort out if its a hardware issue or a software issue. I'm leaning towards it being a software issue in Motioneye. Namely a WIFI driver issue that only affects the 3B+​.

Please let me know how that one goes. If it's faster or any better.
Right now, my PiCam is running great. There's a lag but it's not bothering me too much.

badrobot said:

Please let me know how that one goes. If it's faster or any better.
Right now, my PiCam is running great. There's a lag but it's not bothering me too much.

I'll likely give it a go tomorrow some time. No lockups or freezes running PiVideo from Raspbian. It's been streaming all day with no issues. Its faster on 5GHz, more FPS. Even though signal strength is a lot lower. It's still glitchy though. I switched back to 2.4 as thats where I was having my issues. I want to also rule out my WIFI as the issue. I'm going to leave that Pi running all night and see if its still streaming in the morning. If it is, I'm going to do a fresh image of Raspbian and follow the guide for installing Motion Eye into it. Then go from there. I really want to rule out the Pi as being the issue. Only just bought it so need to sort that out before my return / refund period runs out. I'm 99.9% sure if a software issue at this point though. Which is good. If I really had to I could swap it with my other 3B+. PITA to do that though as its mounted in my bread board rig. Not so easy to remove. I'll let you know how it works out.

For what its worth, I really like the Motion Eye web UI interface. No having to sudo edit files. Good quality video. Easy to change the resolution etc. Having to have an ethernet connection on first boot is a bit of a pain though. +'s and -'s.