Live Stream does not work #269

DD4WH · 2025-01-04T19:04:10Z

Bug report:

installed the latest version on RPi 4
installation works well, but:
Live Stream does not start, when I click on it
instead, it shows 0:00 and stays there
if I restart Live Stream Services in "Tools", I can listen to 20sec of audio and then audio stops. This is reproducible, but the audio is always the same 20 seconds
Spectrum tab does not work properly: I can see the specctrum window, but no audio is heard and no spectrogram data is visible. When I restart Live Stream Services, I can hear/see 20 seconds, but after that audio and spectrogram stops again

This is the log output, when I click "Live Stream Service restart":


● livestream.service - BirdNET-Pi Live Stream
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/livestream.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2025-01-04 20:05:26 CET; 2s ago
    Process: 1668 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/livestream.sh (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 1668 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 284ms

● icecast2.service - LSB: Icecast2 streaming media server
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/icecast2; generated)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-01-04 20:05:27 CET; 2s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 1676 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/icecast2 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 3922)
        CPU: 114ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/icecast2.service
             └─1681 /usr/bin/icecast2 -b -c /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml

Jan 04 20:05:26 birdnetpi systemd[1]: Starting icecast2.service - LSB: Icecast2 streaming media server...
Jan 04 20:05:27 birdnetpi icecast2[1676]: Starting streaming media server: icecast2.
Jan 04 20:05:27 birdnetpi systemd[1]: Started icecast2.service - LSB: Icecast2 streaming media server.
Jan 04 20:05:27 birdnetpi icecast2[1681]: [2025-01-04  20:05:27] WARN CONFIG/_parse_root Warning,  not configured, using default value "localhost". This will cause problems, e.g. with YP directory listings.
Jan 04 20:05:27 birdnetpi icecast2[1681]: [2025-01-04  20:05:27] WARN CONFIG/_parse_root Warning,  not configured, using default value "Earth".
Jan 04 20:05:27 birdnetpi icecast2[1681]: [2025-01-04  20:05:27] WARN CONFIG/_parse_root Warning,  contact not configured, using default value "icemaster@localhost".

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Nachtzuster · 2025-01-18T11:55:48Z

Thanks for reporting.
The Spectrum uses the live stream, so when you get that working, the spectrum should start to work.

Could you run journalctl -efu livestream.service, then restart the Live Stream Service in the Tools menu and report back?

DD4WH · 2025-01-18T12:13:35Z

thanks for considering my issue!

Before restart of livestream service:

After restart of livestream service:

Nachtzuster · 2025-01-18T12:44:48Z

It seems the icecast service in not running maybe?
Could you post the output of journalctl -eu icecast2.service
Also the install log might be useful, it is in the home directory - could you post that as well?

DD4WH · 2025-01-18T13:02:11Z

not sure how to find the install log ? Could you give me a prompt for that?

Nachtzuster · 2025-01-18T13:09:52Z

not sure how to find the install log ? Could you give me a prompt for that?

this will spit out the entire log on your terminal
cat ~/installation-*.txt

DD4WH · 2025-01-18T13:14:42Z

are you sure you want the entire log ;-) ???

DD4WH · 2025-01-18T13:20:29Z

Maybe this is interesting enough? Let me know if you would like the entire log.

`+ config_icecast
+ '[' -f /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml ']'
+ cp /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml.prebirdnetpi
+ sed -i 's/>admin</>birdnet</g' /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
+ passwords=("source-" "relay-" "admin-" "master-" "")
+ for i in "${passwords[@]}"
+ sed -i 's/<source-password>.*<\/source-password>/<source-password>birdnetpi<\/                                                                                                             source-password>/g' /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
+ for i in "${passwords[@]}"
+ sed -i 's/<relay-password>.*<\/relay-password>/<relay-password>birdnetpi<\/rel                                                                                                             ay-password>/g' /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
+ for i in "${passwords[@]}"
+ sed -i 's/<admin-password>.*<\/admin-password>/<admin-password>birdnetpi<\/adm                                                                                                             in-password>/g' /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
+ for i in "${passwords[@]}"
+ sed -i 's/<master-password>.*<\/master-password>/<master-password>birdnetpi<\/                                                                                                             master-password>/g' /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
+ for i in "${passwords[@]}"
+ sed -i 's/<password>.*<\/password>/<password>birdnetpi<\/password>/g' /etc/ice                                                                                                             cast2/icecast.xml
+ sed -i 's|<!-- <bind-address>.*|<bind-address>127.0.0.1</bind-address>|;s|<!--                                                                                                              <shoutcast-mount>.*|<shoutcast-mount>/stream</shoutcast-mount>|' /etc/icecast2/                                                                                                             icecast.xml
+ systemctl enable icecast2.service
icecast2.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable icecast2
+ USER=birdie`

Nachtzuster · 2025-01-18T17:25:10Z

Hmmm ... all this looks just fine.

Could you post the output of sudo netstat -tlpn and ps ux && date

edit: Also I'm assuming this is a fresh install and never worked, is that correct?

DD4WH · 2025-01-18T17:45:34Z

Yes, it is a completely fresh install, that has been running for a few weeks now, but Live Stream and Spectrum view never worked properly.

birdie@birdnetpi:~/BirdNET-Pi$ sudo netstat -tlpn
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      977/gotty-aarch64
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:2019          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      774/caddy
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8001          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      309443/icecast2
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8000          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      309443/icecast2
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8888          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      508/gotty-aarch64
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      630/sshd: /usr/sbin
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8501          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      998/python3
tcp6       0      0 ::1:8501                :::*                    LISTEN      998/python3
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      774/caddy
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      630/sshd: /usr/sbin

birdie@birdnetpi:~/BirdNET-Pi$ ps ux && date
USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
birdie       688  0.0  0.2  19596  9856 ?        Ss   Jan04   0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
birdie       689  0.0  0.1 104740  4840 ?        S    Jan04   0:00 (sd-pam)
birdie       745  3.6  0.6 968584 26172 ?        S<sl Jan04 736:50 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
birdie       746  0.0  0.1   8636  4992 tty1     S+   Jan04   0:00 -bash
birdie       765  0.0  0.0   8236  3712 ?        Ss   Jan04   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
birdie       934  1.6  6.9 721360 271296 ?       Ssl  Jan04 325:57 /home/birdie/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/daily_plot.py --daemon --sleep 2
birdie       937  0.0  0.0   6800  3072 ?        Ss   Jan04   0:00 bash /usr/local/bin/spectrogram.sh
birdie       940  0.0  0.0   2504  1280 ?        S    Jan04   0:09 inotifywait -m -e close_write /home/birdie/BirdSongs/StreamData/analyzing_now.txt
birdie       941  0.0  0.1  11920  6568 ?        S    Jan04   4:26 bash /usr/local/bin/spectrogram.sh
birdie       960  0.0  0.0   6800  3072 ?        Ss   Jan04   0:00 bash /usr/local/bin/birdnet_recording.sh
birdie       965  0.7  0.1 354236  6656 ?        Sl   Jan04 153:19 arecord -f S16_LE -c2 -r48000 -t wav --max-file-time 15 -D default --use-strftime /home/birdie/BirdSongs/StreamData/%F-bir
birdie       970 16.0  9.2 1652612 359644 ?      Rsl  Jan04 3235:40 /home/birdie/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/birdnet_analysis.py
birdie       974  0.0  0.0   6800  3072 ?        Ss   Jan04   0:00 bash /usr/local/bin/gotty --address localhost -p 8080 --path log --title-format BirdNET-Pi Log birdnet_log.sh
birdie       977  0.0  0.3 1377728 14592 ?       Sl   Jan04   1:35 gotty-aarch64 --address localhost -p 8080 --path log --title-format BirdNET-Pi Log birdnet_log.sh
birdie       998  0.0  5.7 988944 221332 ?       Ssl  Jan04   0:51 /home/birdie/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/python3 /home/birdie/BirdNET-Pi/birdnet/bin/streamlit run /home/birdie/BirdNET-Pi/scri
birdie    309449  0.0  0.0   6800  3072 ?        Ss   13:13   0:00 bash /usr/local/bin/livestream.sh
birdie    309450 16.0  1.2 609864 47360 ?        RLl  13:13  53:11 ffmpeg -nostdin -loglevel error -ac 2 -f alsa -i default -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 320k -ac 2 -content_type audio/mpeg -f mp
birdie    310423  0.0  0.1  19856  6560 ?        S    14:13   0:00 sshd: birdie@pts/0
birdie    310424  0.0  0.1   8756  5376 pts/0    Ss   14:13   0:00 -bash
birdie    314742  133  0.1  11136  4224 pts/0    R+   18:44   0:00 ps ux
Sat 18 Jan 18:44:32 CET 2025

Nachtzuster · 2025-01-19T10:41:52Z

Sanity check: are you logged in?

When already logged in, you should be able to go to the Tools menu without being prompted for a password again.
Only when logged in the stream is available.

DD4WH · 2025-01-19T10:52:06Z

Yes, I am logged in successfully. I have been using BirdNET-Pis in many different situations for many years now, so I am quite familiar with the usage.

Does live stream work for you in your installation?

DD4WH · 2025-01-19T10:55:24Z

In my other installations, installed directly from Patrick's github some years ago, Live stream works. But I have never been able to get live stream running from your github.

Nachtzuster · 2025-01-19T11:07:03Z

Yes, I am logged in successfully. I have been using BirdNET-Pis in many different situations for many years now, so I am quite familiar with the usage.

Does live stream work for you in your installation?

Yes, I though I recognized the handle - as I said, sanity check, as I'm kinda stumped that it does not work for you

Nachtzuster · 2025-01-19T11:33:58Z

Could you post the output of sudo netstat -tlpn and ps ux && date

that is actually not very useful - could you try again with sudo netstat -tlpn and ps aux | grep ice && date

DD4WH · 2025-01-19T14:39:46Z

Thank you for your continuous support! It would be really helpful to know how to use the Live Stream.

Here is the desired output:

birdie@birdnetpi:~/BirdNET-Pi$ sudo netstat -tlpn
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      977/gotty-aarch64
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:2019          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      774/caddy
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8001          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      309443/icecast2
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8000          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      309443/icecast2
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8888          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      508/gotty-aarch64
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      630/sshd: /usr/sbin
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8501          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      998/python3
tcp6       0      0 ::1:8501                :::*                    LISTEN      998/python3
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      774/caddy
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      630/sshd: /usr/sbin
birdie@birdnetpi:~/BirdNET-Pi$ ps aux | grep ice && date
nobody       475  0.0  0.0   5828  2560 ?        Ss   Jan04   0:12 /usr/sbin/thd --triggers /etc/triggerhappy/triggers.d/ --socket /run/thd.socket --user nobody --deviceglob /dev/input/event*
icecast2  309443  0.4  0.3 332424 12504 ?        Sl   Jan18   6:34 /usr/bin/icecast2 -b -c /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
birdie    309450 15.9  1.2 609864 47488 ?        SLl  Jan18 252:59 ffmpeg -nostdin -loglevel error -ac 2 -f alsa -i default -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 320k -ac 2 -content_type audio/mpeg -f mp3 icecast://source:birdnetpi@localhost:8000/stream -re
birdie    334609  0.0  0.0   6088  1920 pts/0    S+   15:38   0:00 grep ice
Sun 19 Jan 15:38:32 CET 2025

Nachtzuster · 2025-01-25T11:15:48Z

So both ffmpeg and icecast seem to be running fine.

What does curl -v http://localhost/stream -u "birdnet:<YOUR PASSWORD> return?

Then on a separate computer: what do you get in a private browser window when you hit
http://birdnet:<YOUR PASSWORD>@<BIRDNET-PI IP>/stream
Before hitting the address, turn on the developer tools to see if any interesting errors occur?

patmont · 2025-02-14T06:02:59Z

I am also having this issue on a clean Rpi5 install with the same symptom. I can sometimes get audio after restarting the service.

To keep the ball rolling on the first part of your question:

`*   Trying 127.0.0.1:80...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'birdnet'
> GET /stream HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost
> Authorization: Basic YmlyZG5ldDpiaXJkbmV0
> User-Agent: curl/7.88.1
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store
< Content-Type: audio/mpeg
< Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:51:26 GMT
< Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
< Icy-Metadata: 1
< Icy-Pub: 0
< Pragma: no-cache
< Server: Caddy
< Server: Icecast 2.4.4
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< 
Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell 
Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output 
Warning: <FILE>" to save to a file.
* Failure writing output to destination
* Failed reading the chunked-encoded stream
* Closing connection 0
`

zwk920 · 2025-02-16T08:44:58Z

I've been having this issue as well since switching from a USB mic to a Keyestudio ReSpeaker 2-mic HAT. The only way I've found to consistently fix this is to run the command "pkill -9 arecord" in the web terminal. Live Stream starts working again after a few seconds

DD4WH · 2025-02-16T13:32:34Z

Sorry for my long silence, I was distracted by work obligations . . .
In the last weeks on my system Live Audio Stream was working sporadically, but I could not find any systematics . . .
What does pkill -9 arecord do exactly ?

zwk920 · 2025-02-16T15:57:08Z

When I had this issue, I found that arecord was using the mic and preventing BirdNet-Pi from using it. pkill -9 arecord kills all processes associated with arecord, and in my case, frees up the mic for BirdNet-Pi to use

DD4WH · 2025-02-16T17:04:47Z

Thanks for the explanation! Is arecord used by the BirdNet-Pi? And, if not, what could cause arecord to run, if there is only BirdNET-Pi installed on the Pi? I use a headless installation on Pi4.
EDIT: Oh, I found that arecord is associated with the ALSA soundcard. That could be an explanation! Every time I make a new install of a BirdNet-Pi, the first thing I do after BirdNET-Pi is running, is to open alsamixer and increase the gain of the mic. Maybe this starts an arecord process, which in turn suppresses the functioning of the Live Stream audio ???

DD4WH · 2025-02-16T17:13:36Z

hmm, the main BirdNET script: birdnet_recording.sh makes extensive use of arecord, so killing all processes would not be a very good idea? But maybe I am missing something here . . .

zwk920 · 2025-02-16T20:52:59Z

Yes, I realized that many of the BirdNet scripts use arecord, but this was after I had been consistently using pkill -9 arecord on start-up to fix the Live Recording issue. I'm not sure why running pkill works for me, I just know that it does work. I'm still trying to figure that out lol. For me, running sudo reboot restarts arecord, so you should be able to just restart your Pi if pkill doesnt have the intended effect

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