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Use your Nest Cam as IP camera in HomeKit.
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In Docker, clicking into to camera in home app temporarily kills Homebridge service #63

Closed gadgetfreak98 closed 5 years ago

gadgetfreak98 commented 5 years ago

Hi. Love, love, love what you are enabling here! I had this working fine under a regular terminal setup, but for various reasons, I ended up needing to resort to using Docker -- which was way easier in many ways.

The issue, however, is that clicking through the preview window of my camera in the Home app does two things:

  1. It throws up the "camera unavailable" error and, oddly:
  2. It temporarily kills the Homebridge service according to the Docker Homebridge Server Status page. When I exit back out of the detailed camera view to the regular list of Home items, the server reconnects and all is well. The camera in the summary Home app tab also then reconnects.

So basically I can't click through to watch in full screen on my phone without killing the Homebridge service temporarily. I googled around but couldn't find anything talking about this? Thoughts? So close right now!

Thanks!

KhaosT commented 5 years ago

Make sure your Docker has ffmpeg in there.

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On Feb 3, 2019, at 7:20 AM, gadgetfreak98 notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi. Love, love, love what you are enabling here! I had this working fine under a regular terminal setup, but for various reasons, I ended up needing to resort to using Docker -- which was way easier in many ways.

The issue, however, is that clicking through the preview window of my camera in the Home app does two things:

It throws up the "camera unavailable" error and, oddly: It temporarily kills the Homebridge service according to the Docker Homebridge Server Status page. When I exit back out of the detailed camera view to the regular list of Home items, the server reconnects and all is well. The camera in the summary Home app tab also then reconnects. So basically I can't click through to watch in full screen on my phone without killing the Homebridge service temporarily. I googled around but couldn't find anything talking about this? Thoughts? So close right now!

Thanks!

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gadgetfreak98 commented 5 years ago

I tried to install it, but I'm not sure I did it correctly. Any recommendation about how to ensure ffmpeg is properly installed in Docker?

KhaosT commented 5 years ago

Err… you can attach a console to Docker and run ffmpeg to see if that actually runs.

gadgetfreak98 commented 5 years ago

Not quite sure how to do that... am googling around

gadgetfreak98 commented 5 years ago

Just checking back on this. Would you mind suggesting a place to get further directions on this? Or provide them if easy to do so? thanks.

KhaosT commented 5 years ago

Something like this.

https://github.com/oznu/docker-homebridge/issues/65

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gadgetfreak98 commented 5 years ago

Thanks. I'm still at a bit of a loss as to how to actually modify the startup.sh file in Docker on a Raspberry Pi.

dp917 commented 5 years ago

@gadgetfreak98 You have to enable ffmpeg for docker by adding the environment variable PACKAGES=ffmpeg. Can be easily done if you're using portainer to manage docker. Had same issues as you and this fixed it. I also made sure my machine had ffmpeg installed and with using terminal in homebridge with configuix just to cover everything.

gadgetfreak98 commented 5 years ago

Something like this. oznu/docker-homebridge#65 … Sent from my iPhone On Feb 10, 2019, at 3:58 PM, gadgetfreak98 @.***> wrote: Just checking back on this. Would you mind suggesting a place to get further directions on this? Or provide them if easy to do so? thanks.

I finally figured out how to do this after some time away.... Just couldn't initially figure out what I was supposed to do in the directions in that link. But after having start again from scratch using Docker this time on a Synology vs. a Pi, I understood where the ffmpeg script was to go, and it worked! Thanks!