no more as 4 cams?

[voicenoise]

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motionEyeOS Version

I am running motionEyeOS version: (20200606).

Board Model

I am using the following board/model: (Raspberry PI 4 -8GB).

Camera

I am using the following type of camera: (Network Camera and Simple MJPEG Camera). My camera model is: (not necessary).

Network Connection

My motionEyeOS unit is connected to the network via: (Ethernet).

I like this project and hope still to come few updates like booting from raspi 4 8GB but this is not my issue here...

i try 3 times and every time are the same, after adding a fifth network cam the system hangs and cannot reboot. failed at boot by Starting motioneye. no matter what a cam rtsp or mjpeg

[starbasessd]

For the Pi4-8GB use dev20201026. Once you are confident it's working for you, you can do a backup, then install and boot to USB Change cmdline.txt from root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 to root=/dev/sda2 When booted up, you should be able to do the restore of your camera configs.

[voicenoise]

i try dev20201026 on USB and restore from a backup with a 4 cam configuration. Here are the same he boots up to

• Starting motioneye: then hangs a few minutes then comes "failed" and the device rebooting.

i try now a fresh installation with dev20201026 o USB and look what happening here after adding the fifth cam...

[starbasessd]

Here I am with 6 cameras, 3 d-Link Network, 2 Foscam RTSP, and a generic Tiga USB Webcam... on a Pi4-8GB on a USB boot (128GB) with dev20201026, both ethernet & wifi connections.

[starbasessd]

What becomes 'failed' during boot? Post all 5 logs, especially boot.log and motioneye log.

[voicenoise]

nice, mine wont work

also here with dev20201026 on USB

after click ok to add the 5 cam in this case a mjpeg cam (but it also happens with a rtsp connection) come a short warning in the web interface "An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended." and all streams from the other cams are down

after refresh and new login: "You have not configured any camera yet. Click here to add one... copyright © Calin Crisan An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended."

Then i try directly the new backup that i have done before adding the fifth cam.

• Starting motioneye hanging then failed and the bootlop begin...

How do I get the logs files if I can no longer boot properly?

[starbasessd]

Can you SSH in, or use a keyboard & monitor? If not then: Something got seriously corrupted. Start with a fresh image, either on USB with the change above to cmdline.txt or on an SDCard. Go to the WebGUI Pick one of your cameras Add it 5 times. Yes, the same camera info for all 5 add cameras. Does it still crash?

[voicenoise]

log.zip i found a way to get the log files i try with 5x same cam....

[voicenoise]

it behaves slightly differently and does not crash. but one now event to streams are grey.

Reboot working too... so perhaps it is that mjpeg cam

edit: i don't make a admin/user login or hostname now

[starbasessd]

So delete all 5 cams, and pick another camera to do it again. Maybe the one you were adding last before.

[voicenoise]

i can't add the mjpeg cam 5 times because no more streams on this cam, it is a older one. i try to add this as first then the others 4 are the same model trendnet tvip 310 and another is a dlink dcs522l but this one i not added yet.

edit: it work now, 5 cams mjpeg setup as first. The sixt is not relevant and not supported (DLink DCS522L) next i change passwords and host name.

And goes through my head, I haven't made a backup, which I always did before, except for the first time.

[starbasessd]

You use the same entries 5 times same URL for all 5 cameras. For example my d-Link DCS5020L is http://IP_Address:80/mjpeg.cgi so I enter that for all 5 new cameras (plus user & password)

Once you have that set up, delete the cameras one at a time, and add another camera. Once it's all set up (still haven't changed ANYTHING ELSE) then do a backup. THEN start making other changes.

[voicenoise]

all 6 cam was running now then i deactivate ftp service > reboot the system hanging on *Starting motioneye: failed and the bootlop begins again 🙈

[starbasessd]

So it has to do with the FTP service... For now, don't disable it, I'll look at it later.

[voicenoise]

ok, i investivate now in folder /etc
and recongnize that the files proftpd.conf and no_S61proftpd ha zero bytes

[starbasessd]

Look in /data/etc, and /etc is read-only, changes are in /data/etc

[voicenoise]

there is only one data folder in this 3 partitions and this one is completly empty

edit: last log files log.zip

[starbasessd]

try commands: df -h df -T motionEyeOS uses 3 partitions, overlay file systems and read-only file systems If /data is empty, the file systems are broken and you need to re-image, apply the backup, and do not change the FTP server settings.

[voicenoise]

I'm already at it. from scratch again 🙈

[voicenoise]

Backup is not working although i create the backup before deactivate the ftp service... *Starting motioneye: failed

very strange and i give up for today

edit: the backup without hostname cam names and password are working.

[voicenoise]

So when I change the cam name and click reboot the error comes back. i have not strange names: CAM1 , Frontview, Outdoor, Room etc.

[starbasessd]

Do you have any non-alphabetical/numerical characters in the names anywhere? Punctuation, quotes, single quotes, mathmatical, etc?

[voicenoise]

no as i said only like this one

i have not strange names: CAM1 , Frontview, Outdoor, Room etc.

[starbasessd]

Suggestion: change the names one at a time, and reboot between each change to see which is problematic.

[voicenoise]

i can try with the raspi soon, because every time reinstall needs a lot time.

but i have testing with a ubuntu 20.04.3 Machine and running into a similar thing. after try to add the DLink DCS-522L i got:

"An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended." and all streams from the other cams are down

after refresh and new login: "You have not configured any camera yet. Click here to add one... copyright © Calin Crisan An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended."

reboot the machine = service status failure:

motioneye.service - motionEye Server Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-09-15 02:09:20 CEST; 1s ago Process: 2168 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/meyectl startserver -c /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 2168 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 15 02:09:19 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: _get_additional_config(main_config) Sep 15 02:09:19 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/config.py", line 2020, in _get_additional_config Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: (sections, configs) = get_additional_structure(camera=bool(camera_id)) Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/config.py", line 1991, in get_additional_structure Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: result = func() Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/tzctl.py", line 126, in timeZone Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: import pytz Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: ImportError: No module named pytz Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

try delete the new last cam settings sudo rm /etc/motioneye/camera-7.conf

but not success

so next i do:

sudo systemctl stop motioneye

delete directories: sudo rm -rf /etc/motioneye && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/motioneye

recreate directories: sudo mkdir -p /etc/motioneye && sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye

copy configs: sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf

start motioneye: sudo systemctl restart motioneye

interface working now again

but import the last backup fails again (cams renamed) "You have not configured any camera yet. Click here to add one... copyright © Calin Crisan An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended."

So i do it the above again and take the first backup with cam not renamed

working again

very very strange

Cam names are: CAM1 ; Outdoor ; Frontwiev ; Room ; Eingang ; 95

[voicenoise]

last night i used the backup then it worked. This morning it hanging and after do a reboot the service is gone again:

● motioneye.service - motionEye Server Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-09-15 11:58:01 CEST; 11min ago Process: 795 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/meyectl startserver -c /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 795 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: _get_additional_config(main_config) Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/config.py", line 2020, in _get_additional_config Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: (sections, configs) = get_additional_structure(camera=bool(camera_id)) Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/config.py", line 1991, in get_additional_structure Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: result = func() Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/tzctl.py", line 126, in timeZone Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: import pytz Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: ImportError: No module named pytz Sep 15 11:58:01 motion-eye systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Sep 15 11:58:01 motion-eye systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

i come from zoneminder and i really like this system also the resources and power consumption are much better than zm. But is not stable enough for me at the moment :-(

Edit: i can restore the backup = Running after reboot nothing works anymore > service failed

[ozett]

give this a try: https://frigate.video/

have it running on an old intel i5 with 12 cams. but you need an AI accellerator for 40$ (hard to buy at the moment)