ustreamer VS crowsnest

FYI until recently this was known as 'rtsp-simple-server', but it outgrew simply being a RTSP server so it was rebranded. It is commonly used in the 3D printing community for serving webcams attached to printers along with ustreamer (https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer).

uStreamer is far superior to the mjpgstreamer utility that nearly everyone uses. It supports the Pi's OMX media encoder, so you can get reasonable quality with low CPU usage.

I've been in the same situation as you and have been looking into https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer as an alternative to mpjg-streamer under Raspian Bullseye with the unicam driver and the Media Controller API framework.

Maybe look at https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

...the documentation includes an example for the rPi camera as well as simple steps for making it a service.

I've done work before where we stream USB cameras via mjpg using https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

Granted this project looks like a lot more streamlined.

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