gstreamer-video cannot access camera

[J4nsen]

Hi,
first of all, thanks for this great project.
I'm following the docker installation guide and I have problems starting the gstreamer container. It seems to have problems accessing the camera:

gstreamer-video_1 | Setting pipeline to NULL ...
gstreamer-video_1 | Freeing pipeline ...
gstreamer-video_1 | Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
gstreamer-video_1 | mmal: mmal_vc_shm_init: could not initialize vc shared memory service
gstreamer-video_1 | mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to initialise shm for 'vc.ril.camera' (7:EIO)
gstreamer-video_1 | mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.camera' (7)
gstreamer-video_1 | ERROR: Pipeline doesn't want to pause.
gstreamer-video_1 | ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstRpiCamSrc:src: GStreamer error: state change failed and some element failed to post a proper error message with the reason for the failure.
gstreamer-video_1 | Additional debug info:
gstreamer-video_1 | gstbasesrc.c(3452): gst_base_src_start (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstRpiCamSrc:src:
gstreamer-video_1 | Failed to start

I've verified that the camera works on the host, i.e., I can take pictures with raspistill as the pi user.

Any ideas how to proceed? Could this be a problem of outdated gstreamer build in the container and the host system/kernel?
I'm on kernel 5.10.17-v7+.

Thanks, Jan

[HaraldRuppert]

Hi,
I'm facing the same here. Latest Debian Buster on an RPi3B. Camera works.
Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks

[J4nsen]

Hi, I sorta worked around this by running the gstreamer-video part on the host.

• Installing and building the gstreamer plugin: https://ivadim.github.io/2017-08-21-fruitnanny/#4-audio-and-video-pipeline-setup
• Running it: gst-launch-1.0 -v rpicamsrc name=src preview=0 exposure-mode=night fullscreen=0 bitrate=1000000 annotation-mode=time+date annotation-text-size=20 ! video/x-h264,width=960,height=540,framerate=12/1,profile=constrained-baseline ! queue max-size-bytes=0 max-size-buffers=0 ! h264parse ! rtph264pay config-interval=1 pt=96 ! queue ! udpsink host=127.0.0.1 port=5004 sync=false
• Disabling gstreamer-video in the docker-compose.yaml: Commenting out L17-29

However, I faced the next major blocker. nginx reports lots of 502 Errors (Bad Gateway), which results in a broken webpage. With some luck it loads and works.

[c0llys]

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I am having the same issues. No video, no telemetry from the sensor and the web page is broken.

[bureus]

Me 2

[ruaanmaraisklem]

I managed to fix this issue by rebuilding the Docker container with the provided Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer

If anyone wants to they can change the docker-compose.yml file in /opt/fruitnanny to pull my docker image instead of the ivadim one as I'm assuming ivadim has stopped maintaining this project. If anyone is interested just drop me a message here and I can explain my solution more thoroughly

[dtpetersen]

@ruaanmaraisklem, I've been hitting a wall on this issue so some further explanation your solution for the docker container would be greatly appreciated!

I managed to fix this issue by rebuilding the Docker container with the provided Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer

If anyone wants to they can change the docker-compose.yml file in /opt/fruitnanny to pull my docker image instead of the ivadim one as I'm assuming ivadim has stopped maintaining this project. If anyone is interested just drop me a message here and I can explain my solution more thoroughly

[ruaanmaraisklem]

@ruaanmaraisklem, I've been hitting a wall on this issue so some further explanation your solution for the docker container would be greatly appreciated!

I managed to fix this issue by rebuilding the Docker container with the provided Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer
If anyone wants to they can change the docker-compose.yml file in /opt/fruitnanny to pull my docker image instead of the ivadim one as I'm assuming ivadim has stopped maintaining this project. If anyone is interested just drop me a message here and I can explain my solution more thoroughly

I basically just rebuilt the Docker container by using the Dockerfile provided in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer. I then pushed this container up to my own docker hub profile and now I use this newly created container to pull down in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny.

So in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny everywhere where the file references ivadim/fruitnanny-gstreamer I've replaced this with klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix, so if you'd like you are welcome to do the same and pull the image that I built to solve this issue

[ndallarmellinatxt]

@ruaanmaraisklem, I've been hitting a wall on this issue so some further explanation your solution for the docker container would be greatly appreciated!

I managed to fix this issue by rebuilding the Docker container with the provided Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer
If anyone wants to they can change the docker-compose.yml file in /opt/fruitnanny to pull my docker image instead of the ivadim one as I'm assuming ivadim has stopped maintaining this project. If anyone is interested just drop me a message here and I can explain my solution more thoroughly

I basically just rebuilt the Docker container by using the Dockerfile provided in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer. I then pushed this container up to my own docker hub profile and now I use this newly created container to pull down in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny.

So in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny everywhere where the file references ivadim/fruitnanny-gstreamer I've replaced this with klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix, so if you'd like you are welcome to do the same and pull the image that I built to solve this issue

thanks, I just followed what you indicated and the webcam has started working again!

[J4nsen]

I managed to fix this issue by rebuilding the Docker container with the provided Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer

If anyone wants to they can change the docker-compose.yml file in /opt/fruitnanny to pull my docker image instead of the ivadim one as I'm assuming ivadim has stopped maintaining this project. If anyone is interested just drop me a message here and I can explain my solution more thoroughly

Nice!

However, I faced the next major blocker. nginx reports lots of 502 Errors (Bad Gateway), which results in a broken webpage. With some luck it loads and works.

I digged a little deeper. The Nginx container seems to have a little to none timeout for the response. I tried to fix this in its container, but was not successful. Ultimately I just installed nginx on the host and used the configs from the repo, which is working fine.

Additionally, the app-container is missing the gpio program to toggle the infra-red leds. I was able to fix this by installing the wiringpi in the app-container and committing the changes to the image.

[KoJaCx]

@ruaanmaraisklem, I've been hitting a wall on this issue so some further explanation your solution for the docker container would be greatly appreciated!

I managed to fix this issue by rebuilding the Docker container with the provided Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer
If anyone wants to they can change the docker-compose.yml file in /opt/fruitnanny to pull my docker image instead of the ivadim one as I'm assuming ivadim has stopped maintaining this project. If anyone is interested just drop me a message here and I can explain my solution more thoroughly

I basically just rebuilt the Docker container by using the Dockerfile provided in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer. I then pushed this container up to my own docker hub profile and now I use this newly created container to pull down in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny.

So in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny everywhere where the file references ivadim/fruitnanny-gstreamer I've replaced this with klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix, so if you'd like you are welcome to do the same and pull the image that I built to solve this issue

Hi I have the same problem, i find the "Docker file" in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer folder but after I'm totally lost what I'm supposed to do ? Could you explain step by step ? Thanks a lot.

[ruaanmaraisklem]

@ruaanmaraisklem, I've been hitting a wall on this issue so some further explanation your solution for the docker container would be greatly appreciated!

I managed to fix this issue by rebuilding the Docker container with the provided Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer
If anyone wants to they can change the docker-compose.yml file in /opt/fruitnanny to pull my docker image instead of the ivadim one as I'm assuming ivadim has stopped maintaining this project. If anyone is interested just drop me a message here and I can explain my solution more thoroughly

I basically just rebuilt the Docker container by using the Dockerfile provided in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer. I then pushed this container up to my own docker hub profile and now I use this newly created container to pull down in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny.
So in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny everywhere where the file references ivadim/fruitnanny-gstreamer I've replaced this with klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix, so if you'd like you are welcome to do the same and pull the image that I built to solve this issue

Hi I have the same problem, i find the "Docker file" in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer folder but after I'm totally lost what I'm supposed to do ? Could you explain step by step ? Thanks a lot.

@KoJaCx So what you're going to want to do is:

1. In /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer type docker build Dockerfile
2. Then run docker images to see what new image has been created
3. Then in /opt/fruitnanny docker-compose.yml change the image for gstreamer-video to the new image you created in step 1, the name is the one you found in step 2
4. Then rerun the docker-compose.yml to redeploy the fruitnanny application
5. Profit...

Well theoretically that should be fine, alternatively if you don't want to build the image yourself you could just use klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix in step 3 as the image name.

Let me know if you're still having trouble and I can try and assist

[KoJaCx]

Thanks for your reply but when i used "docker build Dockerfile" after a few minutes i have this message

Step 4/5 : COPY docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh /
COPY failed: file not found in build context or excluded by .dockerignore: stat docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh: file does not exist

and after when i used "docker images" i saw

REPOSITORY                    TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED          SIZE
<none>                        <none>    da4312697e3f   53 seconds ago   553MB

so i think the command was not finished correclty any idea ?

[ruaanmaraisklem]

Thanks for your reply but when i used "docker build Dockerfile" after a few minutes i have this message

Step 4/5 : COPY docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh /
COPY failed: file not found in build context or excluded by .dockerignore: stat docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh: file does not exist

and after when i used "docker images" i saw

REPOSITORY                    TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED          SIZE
<none>                        <none>    da4312697e3f   53 seconds ago   553MB

so i think the command was not finished correclty any idea ?

You are correct, it did not finish. It's trying to copy the file audio_entry.sh to the docker image but can't find it. Are you sure you're in the /opt/fruitanny/docker/gstreamer directory when running docker build Dockerfile cause the audio_entry.sh and audio_stream.sh (it'll complain about this one too if it can't find it) are both in this directory. I had a similar problem and then just cd'd to the correct directory and everything went well after that

[KoJaCx]

maybe the problem is the command i used to build the Dockerfile because

cd /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer 
docker build Dockerfile         
unable to prepare context: context must be a directory: /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer/Dockerfile

so i used this command :
docker build /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer

and it's works but i have always this error

Step 4/5 : COPY docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh / COPY failed: file not found in build context or excluded by .dockerignore: stat docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh: file does not exist

[ruaanmaraisklem]

maybe the problem is the command i used to build the Dockerfile because

cd /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer 
docker build Dockerfile         
unable to prepare context: context must be a directory: /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer/Dockerfile

so i used this command :
docker build /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer

and it's works but i have always this error

Step 4/5 : COPY docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh / COPY failed: file not found in build context or excluded by .dockerignore: stat docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh: file does not exist

So what you do is cd /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer then just run docker build . the . here tells docker that the Dockerfile is in the current directory so it knows to run it and then it'll try to copy the files from the current directory, I just tried it again and it should work on your side as well.

Alternatively you can edit the Dockerfile using sudo nano /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer/Dockerfile and change line 6 & 7 from copy audio_entry.sh / and copy audio_stream.sh / to copy /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer/audio_entry.sh / and copy /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer/audio_stream.sh /.

Then if none of these 2 options work you can just pull the container that I created instead of the original container, this change would be in /opt/fruitnanny docker-compose.yml I'm not sure on which lines but just change the ivadim/fruitnanny-gstreamer container to klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix then you can rerun the installation as described in the project's Github page

[KoJaCx]

pfiou it's working with your last option, i edit the "docker-compose.yml" and replace the line for gstreamer-video. Thank you so much for your help !

[bureus]

Awesome work! I got it to run as well so thanks alot @ruaanmaraisklem. But I have multiple issues with the site now, seems to be related to nginx, get random 504 on scripts and css. Do you guys see similar behavior? It works after a couple of refreshes. But cant understand why nginx is behaving like it does.

[ndallarmellinatxt]

Awesome work! I got it to run as well so thanks alot @ruaanmaraisklem. But I have multiple issues with the site now, seems to be related to nginx, get random 504 on scripts and css. Do you guys see similar behavior? It works after a couple of refreshes. But cant understand why nginx is behaving like it does.

I'm in the same situation as you

[J4nsen]

However, I faced the next major blocker. nginx reports lots of 502 Errors (Bad Gateway), which results in a broken webpage. With some luck it loads and works.

I digged a little deeper. The Nginx container seems to have a little to none timeout for the response. I tried to fix this in its container, but was not successful. Ultimately I just installed nginx on the host and used the configs from the repo, which is working fine.

This is my workaround, which i posted some weeks ago

[ndallarmellinatxt]

However, I faced the next major blocker. nginx reports lots of 502 Errors (Bad Gateway), which results in a broken webpage. With some luck it loads and works.

I digged a little deeper. The Nginx container seems to have a little to none timeout for the response. I tried to fix this in its container, but was not successful. Ultimately I just installed nginx on the host and used the configs from the repo, which is working fine.

This is my workaround, which i posted some weeks ago

i didn't see your solution, i also tried to install nginx locally and everything works again, thanks

[nine86]

I tried some of the solutions offered here. At first I was able to stream the video but when I tried it again it stops loading. Feeling really frustrated right now. Super appreciate any help available!

I'm not using a DHT sensor but I have a mic plugged into my pi3 (but even the audio is not working).

[nine86]

I tried some of the solutions offered here. At first I was able to stream the video but when I tried it again it stops loading. Feeling really frustrated right now. Super appreciate any help available!

I'm not using a DHT sensor but I have a mic plugged into my pi3 (but even the audio is not working).

As soon as I finished posting this it occurred to me that whenever the HDMI was unplugged the video would stream fine. Now to figure out the audio issue.

[egoitz89]

@ruaanmaraisklem, I've been hitting a wall on this issue so some further explanation your solution for the docker container would be greatly appreciated!

I managed to fix this issue by rebuilding the Docker container with the provided Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer
If anyone wants to they can change the docker-compose.yml file in /opt/fruitnanny to pull my docker image instead of the ivadim one as I'm assuming ivadim has stopped maintaining this project. If anyone is interested just drop me a message here and I can explain my solution more thoroughly

I basically just rebuilt the Docker container by using the Dockerfile provided in /opt/fruitnanny/docker/gstreamer. I then pushed this container up to my own docker hub profile and now I use this newly created container to pull down in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny.

So in the Dockerfile in /opt/fruitnanny everywhere where the file references ivadim/fruitnanny-gstreamer I've replaced this with klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix, so if you'd like you are welcome to do the same and pull the image that I built to solve this issue

Hello,

I am also having some troubles to put my camera working. I tried to rebuild gstreamer module with klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix but did not archive it. This is what I did:
sudo nano /opt/fruitnanny docker-compose.yml
Edit line 19 ->
# image: ivadim/fruitnanny-gstreamer
image: klemmie117/fruitnanny-gstreamer-fix
Rerun:
docker-compose up -d

Do I have to make something more to fix it?

Thanks!

p.d update: after several tries, now the camera works, but not properly. I can see the image about 5 seconds, and it keeps shutdown another 15 seconds. And starts the cycle again. So, I understand that it is restarting continuously.