(zero) 0KB recordings and pictures

[PhinPhin]

I have a working installation of MotionEyeOS here. There is just one issue: the video- and picturefiles are 0KB big... I have no clue what goes wrong there. The logfiles also show no sign of an error.

Maybe somebody had a similar issue and can help me? :)

motionEyeOS Version

motioneyeos-raspberrypi3-20190427.img

Board Model

Raspberry Pi 3B+

Camera

v4l2-ctl -D Driver Info (not using libv4l2): Driver name : uvcvideo Card type : Microsoft® LifeCam HD-3000: Mi Bus info : usb-3f980000.usb-1.3 Driver version: 4.14.98 Capabilities : 0x84200001

As far as I can see it is running in the YUV420 mode? Any way to make sure?

Network Connection

Gigabit-Ethernet

Peripherals

Networkshare (SMB1.0) on a Fritzbox 7490, it's accessible from the Pi and I can write files on it

Log Files

Nothing to see here, there's just one IP-camera missing... nothing obvious....

• (attach e.g. motioneye.log)

[2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_connect: connect returned error: Operation now in progress [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_http_request: Failed to open camera - check your config and that netcamera is online [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_http_request: Failed to read first camera header - giving up for now [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [VID] vid_start: Netcam failed to open [2:ml2:Kueche] [WRN] [ALL] motion_init: Could not fetch initial image from camera [2:ml2:Kueche] [WRN] [ALL] motion_init: Motion continues using width and height from config file(s) [2:ml2:Kueche] [WRN] [ALL] mlp_retry: Retrying until successful connection with camera [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_connect: connect returned error: Operation now in progress [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_http_request: Failed to open camera - check your config and that netcamera is online [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_http_request: Failed to read first camera header - giving up for now [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [VID] vid_start: Netcam failed to open [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_connect: connect returned error: Operation now in progress [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_http_request: Failed to open camera - check your config and that netcamera is online [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_http_request: Failed to read first camera header - giving up for now [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [VID] vid_start: Netcam failed to open [2:ml2:Kueche] [WRN] [ALL] motion_init: Could not fetch initial image from camera [2:ml2:Kueche] [WRN] [ALL] motion_init: Motion continues using width and height from config file(s) [2:ml2:Kueche] [WRN] [ALL] mlp_retry: Retrying until successful connection with camera

• (attach e.g. boot.log)

---- booting motionEyeOS 20190427 ----
 * Detecting disk device: /dev/mmcblk0
 * Mounting filesystems: done
 * Loading kernel modules: done
 * Setting hostname: done
 * Starting syslogd: done
 * Configuring CPU frequency: done
 * Starting throttle watcher: done
 * Starting eudev: done
 * Starting watchdog: done
 * Configuring wired network: dhcp
 * Setting current date using ntp: Mon Jul 29 14:14:35 CEST 2019
 * Starting ntpd: done
 * Starting crond: done
 * Starting sshd: done
 * Starting proftpd: done
 * Starting smbd: done
 * Starting nmbd: done
 * Starting motioneye: done
 # Interface eth0 has IP address 192.168.1.219/24
 # Default gateway is 192.168.1.2
 # DNS server address is 192.168.1.2

[PhinPhin]

Just to show it still happens:

[jasaw]

You're using a USB camera, but your motion is trying to reach a netcam?

[2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_http_request: Failed to open camera - check your config and that netcamera is online [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [NET] netcam_http_request: Failed to read first camera header - giving up for now [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [VID] vid_start: Netcam failed to open

Check your motion configuration.

[PhinPhin]

Yes, the camera was offline because of a changed wifi-password. Now it is working. Both cams work, but not the recording. I can save snapshots from the webinterface manually but the motion-detect only writes 0Byte files on the SMB-share.

motion.log: [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Could not set the stream [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for m ovie output. [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_outputfile: Error opening file /data/media /motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/17-03-57.mp4: Re mote I/O error [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Could not set the stream [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for movie output. [2:ml2:Kueche] [WRN] [NET] netcam_init_jpeg: no new pic, no signal rcvd [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_outputfile: Error opening file /data/m edia/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/17-09-39.mp4 : Remote I/O error [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Could not set the stream [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for m ovie output. [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_outputfile: Error opening file /data/m edia/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/17-10-26.mp4 : Remote I/O error [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Could not set the stream [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for m ovie output. [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_outputfile: Error opening file /data/media /motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/17-10-45.mp4: Re mote I/O error [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Could not set the stream [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for movie output. [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_outputfile: Error opening file /data/media /motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/17-13-06.mp4: Re mote I/O error [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Could not set the stream [2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for movie output. [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_outputfile: Error opening file /data/m edia/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/17-13-25.mp4 : Remote I/O error [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_open: Could not set the stream [1:ml1:Wohnzimmer] [ERR] [EVT] event_ffmpeg_newfile: Error opening context for m ovie output. motioneye.log:

2019-07-30 11:45:44: [motioneye] ERROR: failed to create movie preview for /data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/09-26-02.mp4: Command '[u'ffmpeg', u'-i', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/09-26-02.mp4', u'-f', u'mjpeg', u'-vframes', u'1', u'-ss', u'4', u'-y', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/09-26-02.mp4.thumb']' returned non-zero exit status 1 2019-07-30 11:45:54: [motioneye] ERROR: failed to create movie preview for /data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-43-00.mp4: Command '[u'ffmpeg', u'-i', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-43-00.mp4', u'-f', u'mjpeg', u'-vframes', u'1', u'-ss', u'4', u'-y', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-43-00.mp4.thumb']' returned non-zero exit status 1 2019-07-30 11:45:54: [motioneye] ERROR: failed to create movie preview for /data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-39-11.mp4: Command '[u'ffmpeg', u'-i', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-39-11.mp4', u'-f', u'mjpeg', u'-vframes', u'1', u'-ss', u'4', u'-y', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-39-11.mp4.thumb']' returned non-zero exit status 1 2019-07-30 11:45:54: [motioneye] ERROR: failed to create movie preview for /data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-40-09.mp4: Command '[u'ffmpeg', u'-i', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-40-09.mp4', u'-f', u'mjpeg', u'-vframes', u'1', u'-ss', u'4', u'-y', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-40-09.mp4.thumb']' returned non-zero exit status 1 2019-07-30 11:45:54: [motioneye] ERROR: failed to create movie preview for /data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-41-10.mp4: Command '[u'ffmpeg', u'-i', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-41-10.mp4', u'-f', u'mjpeg', u'-vframes', u'1', u'-ss', u'4', u'-y', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/21-41-10.mp4.thumb']' returned non-zero exit status 1 2019-07-30 11:45:58: [motioneye] ERROR: failed to create movie preview for /data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/19-38-34.mp4: Command '[u'ffmpeg', u'-i', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/19-38-34.mp4', u'-f', u'mjpeg', u'-vframes', u'1', u'-ss', u'4', u'-y', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/19-38-34.mp4.thumb']' returned non-zero exit status 1 2019-07-30 11:45:58: [motioneye] ERROR: failed to create movie preview for /data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/19-32-52.mp4: Command '[u'ffmpeg', u'-i', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/19-32-52.mp4', u'-f', u'mjpeg', u'-vframes', u'1', u'-ss', u'4', u'-y', u'/data/media/motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-29/19-32-52.mp4.thumb']' returned non-zero exit status 1

So I guess there is some weird stuff with the network-share going on?

[jasaw]

[2:ml2:Kueche] [ERR] [ENC] ffmpeg_set_outputfile: Error opening file /data/media /motioneye_192_168_1_2_fritzbox_bilder_opacam_webcam/2019-07-30/17-03-57.mp4: Re mote I/O error

Problem accessing remote machine. Try saving the video on the Pi locally first, see if you still get zero file size recordings.

[Rob58329]

re. 0KB recordings and pictures. Just in case others find this thread with a similar issue, I had this 0KB recordings issue for a different reason when running motioneye on a Raspberry Pi Zero. Specifically everything would work fine for a number of months, and then I would start getting days were all recordings were 0KB. A reboot would normally fix this for a few days, and they the issue would re-occur. In my case, this was a sign of a failing microSD-card in the Raspberry Pi Zero. Changing the microSD-card for a new one fixed it (for another approx 6months).