Mjpg-streamer and octoprint bug

[GremlineQ]

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Required Information

• DietPi version |G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9 G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=6 G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=1 G_GITBRANCH='master' G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
• Distro version | bookworm
• Kernel version | uname --all
• Linux DietPi 6.9.5-edge-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 16 11:51:16 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
• Architecture | arm64
• SBC model | Orange Pi 3B (aarch64)
• Power supply used | 5V 3A
• SD card used | SanDisk ultra

Additional Information (if applicable)

• Software title | mjpg-streamer and octoprint
• Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? | octoprint was already installed and mjpg-streamer freshly instaled
• Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? | I don’t know, I managed to solve the problem and I’m writing here just to say that something like this happened
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Steps to reproduce

1. Install mjpg-streamer after octopi via dietpi-software

Expected behaviour

• the camera should be visible in octoprint

Actual behaviour

• the camera is visible on the page http://:8082/?action=snapshot , but not in octoprint

Extra details

• I have already managed to solve this problem. The bug was created by dietpi-software installing mjpg-streamer and editing octoprint’s config.yaml file. The error was writing at the end of the file this part:
  webcam: ffmpeg: /usr/bin/ffmpeg snapshot: http://<ip>:8082/?action=snapshot stream: http://<ip>:8082/?action=stream
  and there should be a space for editing in the earlier part of the file:
  classicwebcam:
  after editing:
  classicwebcam: _config_version: 1 snapshot: http://<ip>:8082/?action=snapshot stream: http://<ip>:8082/?action=stream
  and so I managed to fix this error. later, I added the path to ffmpeg on the octoprint website and everything works, I checked the config.yaml file again and now the path was added to a new line at the end of the file
  webcam: ffmpeg: /usr/bin/ffmpeg,
  so now I don’t know what the problem was, but now everything works. maybe this knowledge will be useful to someone

[WarHawk]

Daggum…could have used this a while back…LOL

I ended up getting frustrated and just installed motioneye in a docker and pointed my Octoprint webgui to the motioneye instance…either or I suppose…but your fix is the proper way…stupid spaces always messing stuff up

[GremlineQ]

well I only found this error because it really annoyed me and a lot of luck(it was a miracle how I found it) .