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motionEyeOS Version
I am running motionEyeOS version: (20200606).
Board Model
I am using the following board/model: (Raspberry PI 4 -8GB).
Camera
I am using the following type of camera: (Network Camera and Simple MJPEG Camera). My camera model is: (not necessary).
Network Connection
My motionEyeOS unit is connected to the network via: (Ethernet).
I like this project and hope still to come few updates like booting from raspi 4 8GB but this is not my issue here...
i try 3 times and every time are the same, after adding a fifth network cam the system hangs and cannot reboot. failed at boot by Starting motioneye. no matter what a cam rtsp or mjpeg
For the Pi4-8GB use dev20201026. Once you are confident it's working for you, you can do a backup, then install and boot to USB Change cmdline.txt from root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 to root=/dev/sda2 When booted up, you should be able to do the restore of your camera configs.
i try dev20201026 on USB and restore from a backup with a 4 cam configuration. Here are the same he boots up to
- Starting motioneye: then hangs a few minutes then comes "failed" and the device rebooting.
i try now a fresh installation with dev20201026 o USB and look what happening here after adding the fifth cam...
Here I am with 6 cameras, 3 d-Link Network, 2 Foscam RTSP, and a generic Tiga USB Webcam...
on a Pi4-8GB on a USB boot (128GB) with dev20201026, both ethernet & wifi connections.
What becomes 'failed' during boot? Post all 5 logs, especially boot.log and motioneye log.
nice, mine wont work
also here with dev20201026 on USB
after click ok to add the 5 cam in this case a mjpeg cam (but it also happens with a rtsp connection) come a short warning in the web interface "An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended." and all streams from the other cams are down
after refresh and new login: "You have not configured any camera yet. Click here to add one... copyright © Calin Crisan An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended."
Then i try directly the new backup that i have done before adding the fifth cam.
- Starting motioneye hanging then failed and the bootlop begin...
How do I get the logs files if I can no longer boot properly?
Can you SSH in, or use a keyboard & monitor? If not then: Something got seriously corrupted. Start with a fresh image, either on USB with the change above to cmdline.txt or on an SDCard. Go to the WebGUI Pick one of your cameras Add it 5 times. Yes, the same camera info for all 5 add cameras. Does it still crash?
it behaves slightly differently and does not crash. but one now event to streams are grey.
Reboot working too... so perhaps it is that mjpeg cam
edit: i don't make a admin/user login or hostname now
So delete all 5 cams, and pick another camera to do it again. Maybe the one you were adding last before.
i can't add the mjpeg cam 5 times because no more streams on this cam, it is a older one. i try to add this as first then the others 4 are the same model trendnet tvip 310 and another is a dlink dcs522l but this one i not added yet.
edit: it work now, 5 cams mjpeg setup as first. The sixt is not relevant and not supported (DLink DCS522L) next i change passwords and host name.
And goes through my head, I haven't made a backup, which I always did before, except for the first time.
You use the same entries 5 times same URL for all 5 cameras. For example my d-Link DCS5020L is http://IP_Address:80/mjpeg.cgi so I enter that for all 5 new cameras (plus user & password)
Once you have that set up, delete the cameras one at a time, and add another camera. Once it's all set up (still haven't changed ANYTHING ELSE) then do a backup. THEN start making other changes.
all 6 cam was running now then i deactivate ftp service > reboot the system hanging on *Starting motioneye: failed and the bootlop begins again 🙈
So it has to do with the FTP service... For now, don't disable it, I'll look at it later.
ok, i investivate now in folder /etc
and recongnize that the files proftpd.conf and no_S61proftpd ha zero bytes
there is only one data folder in this 3 partitions and this one is completly empty
edit: last log files log.zip
try commands: df -h df -T motionEyeOS uses 3 partitions, overlay file systems and read-only file systems If /data is empty, the file systems are broken and you need to re-image, apply the backup, and do not change the FTP server settings.
Backup is not working although i create the backup before deactivate the ftp service... *Starting motioneye: failed
very strange and i give up for today
edit: the backup without hostname cam names and password are working.
So when I change the cam name and click reboot the error comes back. i have not strange names: CAM1 , Frontview, Outdoor, Room etc.
Do you have any non-alphabetical/numerical characters in the names anywhere? Punctuation, quotes, single quotes, mathmatical, etc?
no as i said only like this one
i have not strange names: CAM1 , Frontview, Outdoor, Room etc.
Suggestion: change the names one at a time, and reboot between each change to see which is problematic.
i can try with the raspi soon, because every time reinstall needs a lot time.
but i have testing with a ubuntu 20.04.3 Machine and running into a similar thing. after try to add the DLink DCS-522L i got:
"An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended." and all streams from the other cams are down
after refresh and new login: "You have not configured any camera yet. Click here to add one... copyright © Calin Crisan An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended."
reboot the machine = service status failure:
motioneye.service - motionEye Server Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-09-15 02:09:20 CEST; 1s ago Process: 2168 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/meyectl startserver -c /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 2168 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Sep 15 02:09:19 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: _get_additional_config(main_config) Sep 15 02:09:19 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/config.py", line 2020, in _get_additional_config Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: (sections, configs) = get_additional_structure(camera=bool(camera_id)) Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/config.py", line 1991, in get_additional_structure Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: result = func() Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/tzctl.py", line 126, in timeZone Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: import pytz Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye meyectl[2168]: ImportError: No module named pytz Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Sep 15 02:09:20 motion-eye systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
try delete the new last cam settings sudo rm /etc/motioneye/camera-7.conf
but not success
so next i do:
sudo systemctl stop motioneye
delete directories: sudo rm -rf /etc/motioneye && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/motioneye
recreate directories: sudo mkdir -p /etc/motioneye && sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
copy configs: sudo cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf
start motioneye: sudo systemctl restart motioneye
interface working now again
but import the last backup fails again (cams renamed) "You have not configured any camera yet. Click here to add one... copyright © Calin Crisan An error occurred. Refreshing is recommended."
So i do it the above again and take the first backup with cam not renamed
working again
very very strange
Cam names are: CAM1 ; Outdoor ; Frontwiev ; Room ; Eingang ; 95
last night i used the backup then it worked. This morning it hanging and after do a reboot the service is gone again:
● motioneye.service - motionEye Server Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-09-15 11:58:01 CEST; 11min ago Process: 795 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/meyectl startserver -c /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 795 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: _get_additional_config(main_config) Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/config.py", line 2020, in _get_additional_config Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: (sections, configs) = get_additional_structure(camera=bool(camera_id)) Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/config.py", line 1991, in get_additional_structure Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: result = func() Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/motioneye/tzctl.py", line 126, in timeZone Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: import pytz Sep 15 11:58:00 motion-eye meyectl[795]: ImportError: No module named pytz Sep 15 11:58:01 motion-eye systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Sep 15 11:58:01 motion-eye systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
i come from zoneminder and i really like this system also the resources and power consumption are much better than zm. But is not stable enough for me at the moment :-(
Edit: i can restore the backup = Running after reboot nothing works anymore > service failed
give this a try: https://frigate.video/
have it running on an old intel i5 with 12 cams. but you need an AI accellerator for 40$ (hard to buy at the moment)
