geezacoleman
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1 year ago No worries - based on what you've copied in, it looks as though all the commands you have entered have worked, the final ps -C owl.py command will check if owl.py is running. If it returns just the headings 'PID TTY TIME CMD', then the program isn't running in the background. Is that what you mean? The focusing camera method is quite annoying and doesn't need to be so fiddly, so I've started a new issue #79 to resolve some of these hurdles. Ideally the code should just check everything itself.
In the meantime, if you want to run the software, try typing ./owl.py or python owl.py to start the program. If you want to see the display make sure to add the --show-display flag too.
Hopefully this answers the question - feel free to post up more of the output if I have missed something and I can try debugging it for you.
manninb
Sorry for the hassle but having not done this for a while, I'm again having an issue getting the camera view up.
I opened up the "terminal" from the main raspberry screen and did the following (see below). somehow I have come at it from the wrong wrong point but cant seem to find the correct one.
I keeping getting this on the end of the command line "/owl $"
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~/owl pi@raspberrypi:~/owl $ workon owl (owl) pi@raspberrypi:~/owl $ pip install -r requirements.txt Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple Requirement already satisfied: numpy in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 3)) (1.21.0) Requirement already satisfied: imutils in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 4)) (0.5.4) Requirement already satisfied: gpiozero in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 5)) (1.6.2) Requirement already satisfied: pandas in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 6)) (1.2.5) Requirement already satisfied: glob2 in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 7)) (0.7) Requirement already satisfied: RPi.GPIO in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 8)) (0.7.1) Requirement already satisfied: picamera in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 9)) (1.13) Requirement already satisfied: colorzero in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from gpiozero->-r requirements.txt (line 5)) (2.0) Requirement already satisfied: pytz>=2017.3 in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from pandas->-r requirements.txt (line 6)) (2021.1) Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.7.3 in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from pandas->-r requirements.txt (line 6)) (2.8.1) Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from python-dateutil>=2.7.3->pandas->-r requirements.txt (line 6)) (1.16.0) Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from colorzero->gpiozero->-r requirements.txt (line 5)) (57.0.0) WARNING: You are using pip version 21.1.2; however, version 23.1.2 is available. You should consider upgrading via the '/home/pi/.virtualenvs/owl/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command. (owl) pi@raspberrypi:~/owl $ ps -C owl.py PID TTY TIME CMD (owl) pi@raspberrypi:~/owl $