gentoo-on-rpi-64bit VS crowsnest

You're probably thinking of the now unmaintained https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit. He took a %dayjob% that required him to stop committing to open source projects or, possibly, just

64 bit with gentoo i think is slightly less supported; but that is just from me looking around the package archive, and what it appears to be from the wiki. Though i am in the process of taking sakaki's 64 bit image and moving it over to use the official gentoo repos, so i guess i am glutton for punishment

Last time I was looking into this, no normal 64-bit rpi distro (including alarm) supported it. There was only gentoo that somebody hacked together offering mmal interface for h/w codecs: https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit

You can build a binary distro based on Gentoo, e.g. https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit (sadly EOL'ed several months ago).

Anyway, from my own experience, the video decoding performance of gentoo-on-rpi-64bit was somehow nowhere close to LibreELEC, on the same hardware. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learnt there...

yes. use gentoo. specifically this version: https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit

This is very encouraging—I'm doing the same thing eventually on my Surface Pro (2017 model). Right now, I've just got it on a raspberry pi 4B 8GB. It works amazingly there, but I'm using a binary-heavy overlay and dwm. Firefox works better than I expected, but I haven't bothered with sound much, so I don't watch any video or anything. Also, the image I use (I use the “lite” variant available there) comes with an easy-to-use update tool (“genup”). At the very least, I consider it a great way to get acquainted with a significant portion of the Gentoo experience.

pi@mainsailos:~ $ git clone https://github.com/mainsail-crew/crowsnest.git

[server] host: 0.0.0.0 port: 7125 klippy_uds_address: /home/biqu/printer_data/comms/klippy.sock [authorization] trusted_clients: 10.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 169.254.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16 FE80::/10 ::1/128 cors_domains: *.lan *.local *://localhost *://localhost:* *://my.mainsail.xyz *://app.fluidd.xyz [octoprint_compat] [history] [update_manager] channel: dev refresh_interval: 168 [update_manager mainsail-config] type: git_repo primary_branch: master path: ~/mainsail-config origin: https://github.com/mainsail-crew/mainsail-config.git managed_services: klipper [update_manager mainsail] type: web channel: stable repo: mainsail-crew/mainsail path: ~/mainsail [update_manager crowsnest] type: git_repo path: ~/crowsnest origin: https://github.com/mainsail-crew/crowsnest.git install_script: tools/install.sh # Sonar update_manager entry [update_manager sonar] type: git_repo path: ~/sonar origin: https://github.com/mainsail-crew/sonar.git primary_branch: main managed_services: sonar install_script: tools/install.sh [update_manager timelapse] type: git_repo primary_branch: main path: ~/moonraker-timelapse origin: https://github.com/mainsail-crew/moonraker-timelapse.git managed_services: klipper moonraker [update_manager KlipperScreen] type: git_repo path: ~/KlipperScreen origin: https://github.com/jordanruthe/KlipperScreen.git env: ~/.KlipperScreen-env/bin/python requirements: scripts/KlipperScreen-requirements.txt install_script: scripts/KlipperScreen-install.sh managed_services: KlipperScreen

I'm runnin Mainsail on a RPI4 for my 3D printer, and I connected a Logitech C920 camera which is streaming video on http:///webcam/?action=stream using Crowsnest

● crowsnest.service - crowsnest - Multi Webcam/Streamer Control Deamon Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/crowsnest.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2023-06-07 11:14:19 EDT; 51min ago Docs: https://github.com/mainsail-crew/crowsnest Process: 1988 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/crowsnest $CROWSNEST_ARGS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 1988 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 1.660s

Hello, thank you for looking into this for me. The 3d printer is running Tailscale on a Raspberry Pi. I’ve tried accessing the stream from both Windows computers and iOS. There are no error messages, just a black screen with a forever-spinning wheel. I can access the GUI, it’s just the video stream that is not going thru. I’m not sure if it uses multicast trafficking. I’m a newbie in these matters. The specific service involved is called Crowsnest. https://github.com/mainsail-crew/crowsnest

That resolved the issue for me. Issue thread: https://github.com/mainsail-crew/crowsnest/issues/112

You need to install crowsnest