Rat Rig Community [Unofficial]•2y ago

Webcam is broken after Crowsnest update

Mainsail have shipped a Crowsnest update that requires manual intervention: See Mainsail support thread: https://discord.com/channels/758059413700345988/1110268408299270255

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sunny-green•2y ago

Ok, so to summise after updating Crowsnest in the webUI: SSH to your Pi and remove the old Crowsnest:

cd ~/crowsnest
git switch legacy/v3
make uninstall

cd ~/crowsnest
git switch legacy/v3
make uninstall

Optionally backup your old config because it might get overwritten during the reinstall:

cd ~/printer_data/config/
cp crowsnest.conf crowsnest.bak

cd ~/printer_data/config/
cp crowsnest.conf crowsnest.bak

After that you can install the new version. Run following commands for that:

cd ~/crowsnest
git switch master
git pull
sudo make install

cd ~/crowsnest
git switch master
git pull
sudo make install

Reboot Pi:

reboot now

reboot now

Browse to https://ratos.local Edit your new crowsnest.conf -- Don't just paste your old one, there's new stuff!! Grab your camera addresses/v4l enhancements from the old one and paste them into the correct place.
It's now recommended to use: mode: camera-streamer instead of mjpeg. Now change your webcam settings to use WebRTC for best performance:

sunny-green•2y ago

sunny-green•2y ago

If you are getting freezing, reboot the Pi again and ensure your browser is not blocking WebRTC, as some browsers/plugins do.

miklschmidt•2y ago

I'm gonna borrow your image 😄

sunny-green•2y ago

My leg makes a cameo. It’s first and probably final moment of fame.

miklschmidt•2y ago

Blog post with accurate and detailed steps here: https://os.ratrig.com/blog/crowsnest-v4-breaking-changes-manual-upgrade/

Crowsnest v4 contains breaking changes and requires manual steps to...

Crowsnest just recently made huge changes to the way it works. This is great news, because it should be much faster and more reliable. Unfortunately, it also means that there are major breaking changes, and you'll need to do some manual steps to upgrade. When you update to V4 through the machine tab in mainsail, crowsnest will stop working until...

fascinating-indigo•2y ago

Hello, I'm having issues with the make, it hangs at 75% the pi gets stuck, can't even ssh to him. stopped the process (ctrl+c) and started it again, its ate 75% since 1h already

miklschmidt•2y ago

Which pi model and which variant of the OS?

fascinating-indigo•2y ago

ratos 2 - pi3 A

miklschmidt•2y ago

32bit or 64bit? i suspect 64bit, in which case your issue is a memory issue. Don't run 64bit unless you have a pi4 with at least 2gb of memory. If you're on 32bit, then i'd take it to https://discord.com/channels/758059413700345988/1036329187771957269 (Crowsnest is a mainsail-crew project)

fascinating-indigo•2y ago

32bits

miklschmidt•2y ago

are you sure? What's the name of the image you downloaded? If you're indeed on 32-bit, create a thread over on the mainsail discord. Alternatively, you can try to go back to V3. Instructions here: https://discord.com/channels/582187371529764864/1111030612384559214/1111202703440367729

fascinating-indigo•2y ago