suggestion: use pip3 install instead of setuptools/easy install

[christiansievers]

Going forward, I think we need to stop using setuptools to install Python modules. While omxplayer still works on an up-to-date Buster system, it seems that modules installed by setuptools aren't found any more.

To give some background, yes, the video_looper still installs fine on the current Raspbian OS Lite Legacy version. I really like DietPi for its ease of use, robustness and easy addition of audio DACs. So I have spent quite a while to get the video_looper working on a fresh DietPi install (using a Buster image as its base), and it turns out that omxplayer is still working fine, even if you have to go through some manual steps.

But even then the video_looper won't start, because supervisor cannot find the modules, which are installed as egg files in /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages. Manually moving them to /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ fixes that problem. This issue here helped me solve that problem.

For reference, the install process mentions this problem:

SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
setuptools.SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning,
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py:163: EasyInstallDeprecationWarning: easy_install command is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
  EasyInstallDeprecationWarning

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

see https://github.com/adafruit/pi_video_looper/tree/dev I will also try to install it on a fresh dietpi install

[christiansievers]

ah, great. I'll also try that. DietPi don't keep around older versions of their images, so you'd need to get the last Buster image from https://web.archive.org/web/20211030184306/https://dietpi.com/downloads/images/

There's a lengthy auto-update routine that you can't stop. Good to have a screen connected for that. Once logged in as root (pw is dietpi):

In dietpi-config set the memory split to 128.

There's no pi user so you'd need to

adduser pi
adduser pi sudo 
adduser pi adm
usermod -a -G video pi
apt-get install git 
reboot

then install it as pi (easier than to amend the looper install script I guess)

Then to get omxplayer running you need to link libraries: OMXPLAYER on Bullseye fresh install (32-bit) - DietPi. Test omxplayer on its own if you like.

Now installing via pip3 should work. Ideally.

How much work would it be to get rid of supervisor in a next step and use systemd instead? :)

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

thanks. I will check it out when I have time (will be a while) there is already a branch for systemd: https://github.com/tofuSCHNITZEL/pi_video_looper/tree/systemd

the issue is that there are problems with the "run-level" (is this correct?) where systemd runs the looper not in the right "session" and so it cant output to the screen.

[christiansievers]

see https://github.com/adafruit/pi_video_looper/tree/dev I will also try to install it on a fresh dietpi install

I tried that just now. Installing the script brings up this error. Also if I do pip3 install wheel beforehand.

Building wheels for collected packages: Adafruit-Video-Looper
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for Adafruit-Video-Looper ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-req-build-scpb19vv/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-qgosgo_1 --python-tag cp37:
  usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: -c --help-commands
     or: -c cmd --help

  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for Adafruit-Video-Looper
  Running setup.py clean for Adafruit-Video-Looper
Failed to build Adafruit-Video-Looper
Installing collected packages: Adafruit-Video-Looper
  Running setup.py install for Adafruit-Video-Looper ... done
Successfully installed Adafruit-Video-Looper-1.0.10

The supervisor error log says /usr/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'Adafruit_Video_Looper.video_looper' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Adafruit_Video_Looper')

[christiansievers]

also doesn't properly install it on legacy lite. supervisor gives the same ModuleNotFoundError message.

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

okay yes it was totaly untested and I also have 0 experience with this kind of things.. so it seems back to the drawing board...

[christiansievers]

edit: sorry, forget what I wrote earlier. I got confused with the location of setup.py. It needs to be in the root dir, not in the Adafruit_Video_Looper folder.

• then edit this line in install.sh: pip3 install ./Adafruit_Video_Looper to

pip3 install . # to debug use pip3 -v install . | grep 'adding' 

• This then works right away in the current Raspberry OS Legacy. To get it to run on the last DietPi Buster, you also need to apt install python3-wheel

Here's it working now, on my own dev tree: https://github.com/christiansievers/pi_video_looper/tree/dev

[tofuSCHNITZEL]

There's no pi user so you'd need to

just thought about this... if we would place the default video directory somewhere else it would not matter if there is a pi user or not... right? should we move the video folder to a "neutral" location?