Motioneye on wyse termainal (preview artifacts)

[Piotr Zając]

Hello

I have Motioneye installed on Dell Wyse Zx0 terminal.

I see a lot of artifacts in preview but recorded movies are good.

Performance is also OK: CPU 40%, RAM 10%.

When I am using tinyCam or Vlc real time view is OK.

My cams: hacked dafang 

 

[StarbaseSSD]

Interesting. I don't have that particular device to test, unfortunately. What browser are you using on it?

[Piotr Zając]

Chrome and FF it does not matter both the same issue.

Now I am testing different hardware Dell pc i5 8GB 512 hdd + Foscam 4MP camera: same issue, resources get bored.

Server details:
motionEye Version
0.42.1
Motion Version
4.3.2
OS Version
Ubuntu 22.04

[StarbaseSSD]

"bored"?

My 'production' server #1 is a Lenovo M73-tff, i5/8GB/1TB (also saving to a 10TB NAS), running Debian 11, mE 0.42.1motion4.3.2, 6 cameras (3 D-Link 5020L, 2 FosCams, and a USB connected Tiga DashCam), running at an average of 15 frames per second per camera. I have a secondary server on a Pi4B-4GB /256GB (also connected to the same 10TB NAS) running motionEyeOS dev20201026.

I connect with many devices (PC, Mac, RaspberryPi Desktop, Tablets and phones), both locally and from the Internet. I use everything from IE11 to Edge to Chrome to Firefox to Safari and whatever the default browser is on the phones and tablets.

I don't currently have that issue anywhere.

[Piotr Zając]

Works OK only with small resolution 320x200 but saved movies are also 320x200 :-(

[StarbaseSSD]

Did you try turning on Movie Passthrough?

What OS are you running? Desktop or Command Line Only?

[Piotr Zając]

Movie Passthrough: yes same issue.

Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS only basic packages.

[Piotr Zając]

Now I am using 3 FH cams set for 1280/720.

Movie Passthrough, Motion Triggered and everything works great.

Only preview is broken on my both Ubuntu machines.

[StarbaseSSD]

I am beginning to suspect the video drivers on the Wyse Terminal if you are trying to view it on the same Wyse Terminal.

Can you connect to it via

http://[ip_address]:8765

from another computer or phone, do you get the same issues?

 

[Piotr Zając]

I am testing 2 enviromnents home and office, wyse and dell pc.

Preview is bad and shakes also on my mobile phone.

I will check Debian.

Maybe something with codecs?

Recoreded movies are very good.

[Piotr Zając]

OK today I set MotionEyeOS on rpi4 and works OK preview is clean. ??

[StarbaseSSD]

RPi 4 with motionEyeOS is a normal, tested environment. Why wouldn't it work?

The Dell Wyse Terminal isn't. It uses a custom CPU and Radeon combination that is possible only the Dell proprietary Suse Linux supports, completely.

[Piotr Zając]

I found something after new installation on Debian 11.

Motioneye service did not start correct in default with python3.

When I downgrade python to 2.7 motioneye start to work very well also preview.

I have second drive with ubuntu 22 and this configuration works with python3 without good preview.

[StarbaseSSD]

You have to make sure you are following the correct set of instructions for the install. 

There is a set for python2.7 and motionEye 0.42.x and earlier, and a set for 
motionEye 0.43.x and newer with python 3. Both work 'better with motion 4.3.2. 
motionEyeOS uses motioneye 0.42.x and python 2.7.

If you look at Settings, General, you can see which version of motionEye you have installed.

[CJ Lowe]

Try this. Released in 2022. I have 2 cams hooked up CSI and USB. On Wifi and been running Since the video came out on Youtube.
No problems so far and even send notifications to email and upload to DropBOX.
For Pizero W2  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybQzlvukSBo
It says for the Pi 3 but works with Zero 2W
This is the github from the Youtube above. May work on other versions of the Pi.
https://github.com/jawsper/motioneyeos/releases/tag/20220119-dev

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[Piotr Zając]

Same version everywhere

motionEye Version 0.42.1
Motion Version 4.3.2

I can use Debian but I'm worried about the old python version.

"Charle..@gmail.com" my rpi4 works fine too.

[StarbaseSSD]

Until and unless they (the new devs) release instructions for motionEye 0.43.x on the github, you are using python 2.7 to run 0.42.1. 
Because motionEye is open source, and mostly python code, you can download it, and rewrite / modify it to be run on Python 3.x. 
Several people (besides the new devs) have done so. They have found it's not as easy as it seems, because of the functionality changes made by the Python Devs, and no clear, easy upgrade path. Most functions stayed the same, or had simple syntax changes, but several functions no longer have equivalents, and there is no backwards compatibility for them. 

[StarbaseSSD]

You do realize the 2022 version is a 'fork' by another user who posted it (with my recommendation) in the Github issues. It is NOT an 'official' release, and not on the releases page. 

[CJ Lowe]

 A fork?

Well if you Ok'd it that was nice of you.

And yes, it was mentioned in the YouTube video that is was not an official release.

So if you ok'd it what is the issue?

It works great

[Kevin Shumaker]

_I_ am not the owner or controller of motionEye or motionEyeOS. I am but a lowly tech support person (one of several on Github, but I watch google group and FB, as well as do general support on github, where the others that kick in most often usually support specific areas) so although I was quite happy @Jawsper shared his image for PiZero2W, my approval is not an OK. I can recommend it (and I do) until the new devs get their act together. From what I can tell, they need someone familiar with buildroot/ThingOS or another IoT type environment to get the motionEyeOS built. @Jawsper took my suggestion and the instructions in the GitHub wiki and built his image. He presented it to be tested in the Issues, and after a tweak or 2, I linked it in the issues. _I_ can't test it on a PiZ2W, but seems to work on the Pi3. I've built my own mods using the same instructions for other uses. (added omxplayer to see the video stream in one).  

[CJ Lowe]

I see. Well it works great on a PiZ2W. I added a 3rd PiZ2W that is running RSTP with a camera and it still is chugging along.

So weather it's approved or not it does work on a PiZ2W really well.

CJ