No longer possible on Raspberry Pi

[mbriney]

It appears that it's no longer possible if you're running Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi. https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues/58

Full output from my log:

[2018-11-4 01:12:47] [website-camera] Starting new instance of Chromium: /usr/bin/chromium-browser [2018-11-4 01:12:48] [website-camera] Error: Failed to launch chrome! bootstrap_helper: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/nacl_helper: Cannot open ELF file! errno=2 [1029:1029:1104/011248.701576:ERROR:nacl_fork_delegate_linux.cc(315)] Bad NaCl helper startup ack (0 bytes) [1017:1017:1104/011248.705690:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(495)] Failed to put Xlib into threaded mode. [1017:1017:1104/011248.721406:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(272)] Gtk: cannot open display: TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md at onClose (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-website-to-camera/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:342:14) at Interface.helper.addEventListener (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-website-to-camera/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:331:50) at emitNone (events.js:111:20) at Interface.emit (events.js:208:7) at Interface.close (readline.js:368:8) at Socket.onend (readline.js:147:10) at emitNone (events.js:111:20) at Socket.emit (events.js:208:7) at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1064:12) at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)

[werthdavid]

Hey there. Can you provide more information please?

• Which Raspberry model are you using?
• OS version?
• are you running homebridge as root user?

[mbriney]

Yes definitely

1. Using a Pi 3 Model B
2. Running RaspianJessie
3. Running as the Homebridge user with sudo privileges

[werthdavid]

Hmmm you've already found the issue on rpi-distro.. I honestly don't know how to handle this. I guess updating to stretch is not an option..

You could try using 1.0.8, it works with phantomjs instead of chrome.

Any other ideas?

[hendymen]

Hi,

Tried normal one but having issues with Chromium, Then i came across this issue and tries 1.0.8 of your script on Raspberry Pi with Stretch, it shows up in Homekit however no image appears on the 'camera'.

Using an Raspberry Pi B from Q4 2012 Revision 2.0

And the config;

{ "platform": "website-camera", "cameras": [ { "name": "Website 1", "url": "http://github.com", "width": 800, "height": 400, "renderDelay": 1500 } ] }

No errors appear on booting, is there any other thing i can check?

Kind regards.

[werthdavid]

@MvZeeland do you have an outdated version of Raspbian as well? Sorry, can't do much atm, I'm on vacation 😄

[hendymen]

@MvZeeland do you have an outdated version of Raspbian as well? Sorry, can't do much atm, I'm on vacation 😄

Running this version.

Distributor ID: Raspbian Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch) Release: 9.4 Codename: stretch

Enjoy your vacation!

[Hussamfhaily]

How can I enter the username and password of the camera? thanks

[werthdavid]

@Hussamfhaily what do you mean exactly?

[werthdavid]

@MvZeeland @mbriney do you have a raspbian installation with Desktop? Can you run Chromium there?

[werthdavid]

Potentially closed with latest PR. Will close it for now. We can reopen if error still occurs

[hendymen]

Thanks for your reply, eventually i've upgraded my homebridge to an virtual Ubuntu desktop on my server. Because FFMPEG didn't work properly on the raspberry. Also when it worked, it consumed so much CPU it started crashing now and then.

Your plugin works great, however it's updated every 15 seconds or so now. Can we adjust the time it updates from homebridge?

[werthdavid]

As far as I know not, sorry. I think that the Home-App has the logic to request an image only every 15 secs. I might be wrong though, if you find any plugin that gives you control over that please contact me I'll take a look then!