fix: Add a note about group memebrship for RPi camera access.

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A Raspberry Pi operated Wireless Allsky Camera

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fix: Add a note about group memebrship for RPi camera access. #3602

Closed cafuego closed 3 months ago

EricClaeys commented 3 months ago

@cafuego, Peter, After seeing this PR I change the installation script for the next release to add the login to the "video" group if not already there, so this PR won't be needed. Thanks for the idea to add it.

I always use the "pi" login and have never had a case where it wasn't in the "video" group. Do you know what circumstance led to the login you used to install Allsky NOT being in the group? Did you add another user then install Allsky using that user?

cafuego commented 3 months ago

Hey @EricClaeys - yes I installed allsky under a different user account from my own one. I got my raspberry pi from a kit from https://www.okdo.com/ that came with a micro-sd card with Debian pre-installed and it has no pi user at all.

EricClaeys commented 3 months ago

@cafuego, Peter, that explains it. The default login (whatever okdo used) must be in the "video" group but additional logins aren't unless they are manually added to the group. The next release fixes that.