ffmpeg ENOENT, no live video, no way to use locally installed ffmpeg nor replace malfunctioning.version

Refs #11

I'm trying to connect a Blink Mini firmware 9.9

With homebridge docker image running on Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04.3 LTS) Node.js Version: v18.19.0

# uname -a
Linux LibreELEC-living 5.10.110 #1 SMP Sat Jan 7 12:15:32 UTC 2023 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I think there is something wrong with ffmpeg, but I'm not entirelly sure what can it be.

After installation there were some errors while trying to run ffmpeg;

[1/28/2024, 1:21:12 PM] [Blink] Blink G8V1-9000-1306-67X8 - Failed to start ffmpeg: spawn /homebridge/node_modules/homebridge-blink-for-home/node_modules/ffmpeg-for-homebridge/ffmpeg ENOENT

I did:

a) check if the included ffmpeg works, manually, via terminal access and it says bash: ./ffmpeg: No such file or directory which is strange since the file is there and it has X permission on all security levels a) use locally installed ffmpeg (that works with other plugins, for other camera vendors) vi a symbolic link b) download latest ffmpeg-for-homebridge for different architecture (armv7-32, armv8-64), overwriting homebridge-blink-for-home/node_modules/ffmpeg-for-homebridge executable file

when using an executable version of ffmpeg, I can see - in the logs - that there is "something" going on (at least, running, no ENOENT error).

[1/27/2024, 9:19:35 PM] [Blink] Blink G8V1-9000-1306-67X8 - ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel warning -loop 1 -framerate 1 -re -f image2 -i /homebridge/node_modules/homebridge-blink-for-home/src/homebridge/../offline.png -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v baseline -s 1280x720 -g 300 -r 10 -an -sn -dn -b:v 299k -bufsize 598k -maxrate 299k -payload_type 99 -f rtp -ssrc 13197736 -srtp_out_suite AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80 -srtp_out_params ********* srtp://192.168.1.11:49733?rtcpport=49733&localrtcpport=49733&pkt_size=1378
[1/27/2024, 9:19:36 PM] [Blink] Blink G8V1-xxxx - STDOUT: SDP:
v=0
o=- 0 0 IN IP4 127.0.0.1
s=No Name
c=IN IP4 192.168.1.11
t=0 0
a=tool:libavformat 60.3.100
m=video 49733 RTP/AVP 99
b=AS:299
a=rtpmap:99 H264/90000
a=fmtp:99 packetization-mode=1
a=crypto:1 AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80 inline:*********

but there is no video on any HomeKit client, therefore, no live video (i'm seeing "offline.png") the snapshot/thumb does work, doh.

In other words

Confirm there are several versions of ffmpeg installed and running on container
Confirm that there is something wrong with included ffmpeg (at least in my env)
Can create snapshots
Cannot see live video

any ideas?

colinbendell / homebridge-blink-for-home

ffmpeg ENOENT, no live video, no way to use locally installed ffmpeg nor replace malfunctioning.version #152