Live streaming cannot be viewed on an iOS mobile browser

[sayidhe]

Try the address http://<local_pi_ip>:8000/index.html on iOS mobile browser both Chrome and Safari, only the play button on it, can not fetch the live streaming. But the link works fine on desktop browser.

[mohan51]

hi @sayidhe , is the detector functionality is working?

[mohan51]

@sayidhe because whenever i am executing the main.py it is not detecting anything

[sayidhe]

Hi @mohan51 , it works fine on my machine:

• Raspberry Pi 4B
• RS/E14 Camera V2
• Raspbian OS Lite

[mohan51]

@sayidhe we are also working on the same board but we are unable to detect ? have you done any changes in main.py or detector code?

[mohan51]

and also in django frame work which path are you giving at the time of camera addition? is it http://:8000/index.html or http://:8000/stream.mpeg?

[mohan51]

and i am using arducam and raspberrypi 4 and raspbian os

[sayidhe]

@mohan51 Which ffmpeg path are you use?

When I use sudo apt install ffmpeg, the ffmpeg_path setting in config.json line is:

• "ffmpeg_path": "/usr/bin/ffmpeg",

If you follow the step to install and make the ffmpeg as Install ffmpeg with h.264 support, then just keep the same in config.json as:

• "ffmpeg_path": "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"

[mohan51]

@sayidhe I used sudo apt install ffmpeg only and set the path to "ffmpeg_path": "/usr/bin/ffmpeg", in config.json and also in recorder.py

[mohan51]

and also in django frame work which path are you giving at the time of camera addition? is it http://:8000/index.html or http://:8000/stream.mpeg?

@sayidhe

[sayidhe]

In django frame work, I use http://<pi_address>:8000/index.html in the camera url

[mohan51]

what type of detections it is detecting? and also is it also sending recordings???

@sayidhe

[sayidhe]

Can you see the live streaming, but can't detect anything? @mohan51

[mohan51]

Can you see the live streaming, but can't detect anything? @mohan51

yes.and also the recordings i am not able to get.

@sayidhe

[sayidhe]

One thing, I use latest version of python and remove the packages version number in requirements.txt, like below

chardet
numpy
picamera
python-apt
requests
six
ssh-import-id
tornado
urllib3

Others just keep the same.

[mohan51]

ok will try and get back to you

[sayidhe]

Can you view the live streaming on the mobile browser? @mohan51

[mohan51]

Can you view the live streaming on the mobile browser? @mohan51

yes.. when i connected to same network

[mohan51]

what actually it detects? it will detects everything?i am every movement?

[mohan51]

@sayidhe for python-apt installation i am getting error?

[sayidhe]

There are some lines in the config.json which controls the detector

 "detector_motion_threshold": 20,
 "record_seconds_before_motion": 5,
 "record_seconds_after_motion": 12,
 "max_recording_seconds": 600,

• detector_motion_threshold: Threshold for detecting motion. The higher this number, the less motion is detected.
• record_seconds_before_motion: The amount of seconds that will be recorded before motion is detected.
• record_seconds_after_motion: The amount of seconds that will be recorded after motion.
• max_recording_seconds: The maximum duration of a recording in seconds.

[mohan51]

There are some lines in the config.json which controls the detector

 "detector_motion_threshold": 20,
 "record_seconds_before_motion": 5,
 "record_seconds_after_motion": 12,
 "max_recording_seconds": 600,

• detector_motion_threshold: Threshold for detecting motion. The higher this number, the less motion is detected.
• record_seconds_before_motion: The amount of seconds that will be recorded before motion is detected.
• record_seconds_after_motion: The amount of seconds that will be recorded after motion.
• max_recording_seconds: The maximum duration of a recording in seconds.

yeah i saw the lines and adjusted to my requirement but still unable to record or detect the motion

[sayidhe]

Do you have read, write and execute permission of the folder?

[mohan51]

i cloned in to my pc and working on the changes ..but for testing i used the same config file

[mohan51]

it started streaming but unable to detect the movements

@sayidhe

[sayidhe]

@mohan51 Below is my output

Motion detector started successfully!
Streamer started on http://192.168.*.*:8000
Started recording /home/pi/SecurityCamera/./temp_recordings/16-54-29
ffmpeg version git-2023-08-08-9583a2c Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers
...
...
...

[mohan51]

ffmpeg version git-2023-08-08-9583a2c Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers

i am not getting this line...do you have any idea?

@sayidhe

[mohan51]

I downloaded ffmpeg using this steps https://phoenixnap.com/kb/install-ffmpeg-ubuntu

[sayidhe]

I followed this one Install ffmpeg with h.264 support and keep ffmpeg_path like:

• "ffmpeg_path": "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"

[mohan51]

what actually it detects? it will detects everything?i am every movement?

detects every movement? with default config settings

[mohan51]

i am done with installation.then how can i know the path of ffmpeg?how to known whether it is working or not? when i execute "which ffmpeg". it is not showing anything

@sayidhe

[sayidhe]

Normally it is in "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg", when you make and install. You can check with

whereis ffmpeg

[mohan51]

Started recording /home/pi/SecurityCamera/./temp_recordings/16-54-29 ffmpeg version git-2023-08-08-9583a2c Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers

these two lines are not coming for me.i tried the way you installed ffmpeg.and it installed successfully but the above two lines are not coming

[sayidhe]

Do you have read, write and execute permission of the folder?

@mohan51 Not sure if the above issue, you can try to changing the ownership of a folder to pi user, and run the script again.

sudo chown pi:pi -R /home/pi/SecurityCamera

Otherwise, try to re-install the OS, then follow the installation-guide

[Ruud14]

Hi @sayidhe, Thanks for reporting.

I tried viewing the stream on safari iOS and I indeed cannot see the camera stream.

I'll mark this as a bug and look more into it.