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akvirtualcamera, virtual camera for Mac and Windows
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AkVCamManager command not found #31

Closed kirk86 closed 2 years ago

kirk86 commented 2 years ago

Summary

Just installed binary for macOS and followed the steps in the build wiki to for lauchctl in order to launch the service

Current Behavior

In my process on one minute I see the AkVCAMAssistant and the other it's gone. Plus when I try the command AkVCamManager on the command line it's not found

Expected Behavior

Shouldn't all command line commands be automatically recogniised after installation? Plus, this should be working as stand-alone without webcamoid right?

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Install .pkg binary from latest stable realease
  2. execute sudo launchctl enable system/org.webcamoid.cmio.AkVCam.Assistant
  3. execute sudo launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.webcamoid.cmio.AkVCam.Assistant.plist
  4. type AkVCamManager in CLI, not found return error

I think the real issue is with step 2 since executing it and double checking the running processes doesn't show up AkVCam.Assistant. Any ideas what's going on here?

Also, every time step 3 is executed I get the following message:

sudo launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.webcamoid.cmio.AkVCam.Assistant.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.webcamoid.cmio.AkVCam.Assistant.plist: service already bootstrapped
Bootstrap failed: 37: Operation already in progress

Your Environment

hipersayanX commented 2 years ago

The manager must be called with the full path to it:

/Applications/AkVirtualCamera/AkVirtualCamera.plugin/Contents/Resources/AkVCamManager

If I remember well (I'm no in Mac right now).

kirk86 commented 2 years ago

@hipersayanX thanks for the reply, in the /Applications/AkVirtualCamera/AkVirtualCamera.plugin/Contents/Resources/ folder there were only two files an uninstall.sh and filename.plist whose name I don't recall, hence I used the filename placeholder. There was no AkVCamManager executable as far as I can remember.

hipersayanX commented 2 years ago

I think you are a bit confused, when you install the camera using the installer, the manager should be inside /Applications/AkVirtualCamera/AkVirtualCamera.plugin/Contents/Resources/.

there were only two files an uninstall.sh and filename.plist

The uninstall.sh file is inside /Applications/AkVirtualCamera, and there aren't such file called filename.plist, maybe you are confusing it with the Info.plist inside the Contents folder. Now, if you are compiling from source code, the manager is located at the build folder, more or less /akvirtualcamera-build-folder/build/AkVirtualCamera.plugin/Contents/Resources/.

kirk86 commented 2 years ago

I think you are a bit confused, when you install the camera using the installer, the manager should be inside

you're right my confusion was this image

I couldn't find out initially were AkVCamManager manager was located, and double clicking the AkVirtualCamera.plugin didn't do much, hence my confusion

BTW I installed through the latest stable release .pkg container found here.

there aren't such file called filename.plist, maybe you are confusing it with the Info.plist inside the Contents folder.

yep, thanks as I explained I couldn't remember the Info.plist that's why I used filename.plist were filename was meant to be a placeholder for the Info which I couldn't remember.

This is the important bit of information that should be somewhere on the wiki

The manager must be called with the full path to it:

/Applications/AkVirtualCamera/AkVirtualCamera.plugin/Contents/Resources/AkVCamManager

It seems to be working now, I'm closing this issue for the moment, if I get lost again I might ask another question, thanks!