Open christiansievers opened 2 years ago
see https://github.com/adafruit/pi_video_looper/tree/dev I will also try to install it on a fresh dietpi install
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? :)
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.
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')
also doesn't properly install it on legacy lite. supervisor gives the same ModuleNotFoundError message.
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...
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.
pip3 install ./Adafruit_Video_Looper
topip3 install . # to debug use pip3 -v install . | grep 'adding'
apt install python3-wheel
Here's it working now, on my own dev tree: https://github.com/christiansievers/pi_video_looper/tree/dev
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?
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: