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  • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

    @Chad-Sweet

    Right on. I will try some troubleshooting from my end as well. Will let you know if I find anything interesting.

    Thanks!

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    Eric Katzfey
    ModalAI Team
    wrote on last edited by Eric Katzfey
    #9

    @wilkinsaf There is an initial version of a new UVC camera server application now available from our "dev" package repo. The application voxl-uvc-server works in conjunction with voxl-streamer to better support UVC cameras. It has been tested with the Logitech C270 and Videology 5MP Micro USB 2.0 Board Camera. The documentation is at https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-uvc-server/ and the code is at https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server. To try it out, install the latest Voxl platform release voxl_platform_3-3-0-0.5.0-a. On target, configure the opkg package manager to use the modalai dev repo (https://docs.modalai.com/configure-opkg/). Then use opkg install voxl-streamer to upgrade voxl-streamer from 0.2.6 to 0.2.7 (and libmodal_pipe from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2). Then opkg install voxl-uvc-server to install the new voxl-uvc-server application v0.0.5. Run voxl-uvc-server -d to start the application with debug messages. Then run voxl-streamer with voxl-streamer -f /usr/share/modalai/voxl-streamer/voxl-streamer.conf -c uvc-server to use the new configuration file and record type for the uvc server. Let me know if this works for you.

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      #10

      quick comment for anyone reading this, it is

      voxl-uvc-server -d when running

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      • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

        quick comment for anyone reading this, it is

        voxl-uvc-server -d when running

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        Eric Katzfey
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        wrote on last edited by
        #11

        @wilkinsaf Thanks! I fixed the typo in the original post.

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          wrote on last edited by wilkinsaf
          #12

          @Eric-Katzfey

          I am seeing that this failed for MJPEG

          voxl:~$ voxl-uvc-server -d
          Enabling debug messages
          voxl-uvc-server starting
          UVC initialized
          Device found
          Device opened
          uvc_get_stream_ctrl_format_size failed for MJPEG
          uvc_get_stream_ctrl_format_size failed

          Is there a config file for this that I can modify to change the format?

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          • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

            @Eric-Katzfey

            I am seeing that this failed for MJPEG

            voxl:~$ voxl-uvc-server -d
            Enabling debug messages
            voxl-uvc-server starting
            UVC initialized
            Device found
            Device opened
            uvc_get_stream_ctrl_format_size failed for MJPEG
            uvc_get_stream_ctrl_format_size failed

            Is there a config file for this that I can modify to change the format?

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            Eric Katzfey
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            wrote on last edited by
            #13

            @wilkinsaf That shows a failure of the camera to support either MJPEG or YUV422. In order to support that camera you need to know what formats it supports. The best way to do that is to query it's capabilities on the command line. First of all use the lsusb command to find out the device id and product id of the camera. For example:

            Ubuntu18$ lsusb
            Bus 001 Device 090: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
            Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
            

            This shows you that the UVC webcam has device id and product id 046d:0825. You can use that to query it's capabilities with lsusb -v -d 046d:0825. This will dump all of the camera capabilities to the output. Can you respond with the output from your camera?

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            • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

              @wilkinsaf That shows a failure of the camera to support either MJPEG or YUV422. In order to support that camera you need to know what formats it supports. The best way to do that is to query it's capabilities on the command line. First of all use the lsusb command to find out the device id and product id of the camera. For example:

              Ubuntu18$ lsusb
              Bus 001 Device 090: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
              Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
              

              This shows you that the UVC webcam has device id and product id 046d:0825. You can use that to query it's capabilities with lsusb -v -d 046d:0825. This will dump all of the camera capabilities to the output. Can you respond with the output from your camera?

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              ModalAI Team
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              #14

              @Eric-Katzfey

              Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
              I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

              Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
              Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

              They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                #15

                Not sure if voxl-uvc-server got removed.
                I can not seem to find it in the public repo:

                6c9ccd79-a410-48ce-9117-b4ec0156f68e-image.png

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                • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                  Not sure if voxl-uvc-server got removed.
                  I can not seem to find it in the public repo:

                  6c9ccd79-a410-48ce-9117-b4ec0156f68e-image.png

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                  Eric Katzfey
                  ModalAI Team
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                  @wilkinsaf Project is here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

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                  • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                    @Eric-Katzfey

                    Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
                    I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

                    Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
                    Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

                    They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                    Eric Katzfey
                    ModalAI Team
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #17

                    @wilkinsaf The current voxl-uvc-server capabilities only cover uncompressed frames, not mjpeg. The two cameras that you are looking at both have uncompressed formats but the guidFormat is slightly different than the cameras I have tested with. Let me look into this a little deeper.

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                    • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                      @Eric-Katzfey

                      Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
                      I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

                      Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
                      Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

                      They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                      Eric Katzfey
                      ModalAI Team
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                      #18

                      @wilkinsaf The formats should be compatible. I'll have to dig into the libuvc code to see why they are not accepted.

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                      • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                        Not sure if voxl-uvc-server got removed.
                        I can not seem to find it in the public repo:

                        6c9ccd79-a410-48ce-9117-b4ec0156f68e-image.png

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                        Eric Katzfey
                        ModalAI Team
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #19

                        @wilkinsaf Are either of these cameras cheap and easy to purchase?

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                          wrote on last edited by
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                          I believe so. Let me find them online really quick. I was able to get the video's from the cameras streaming using the directions here: https://docs.modalai.com/uvc-streaming/

                          I moved over the ffmpeg ipk and executed
                          ffmpeg -i /dev/video2 -f mpegts udp://QCS_IP:4242

                          So I know that they are working.

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                          • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                            @Eric-Katzfey

                            Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
                            I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

                            Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
                            Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

                            They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                            Eric Katzfey
                            ModalAI Team
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #21

                            @wilkinsaf There are some clues here: https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils/issues/42. It seems like there are some endian issues with interpretation of the guidFormat field. For example, for my Logitech C270 test camera, lsusb reports the guidFormat as 32595559-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 but libuvc (which voxl-uvc-server uses) reports the guidFormat as 59555932-0000-1000-8000-00aa00389b71. So, my guess is that since lsusb reports the guidFormat of your camera as 59555932-0000-1000-8000-00aa00389b71, libuvc (and hence voxl-uvc-server) will see it as 32595559-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 which doesn't match any valid formats. I think I can hack libuvc to add the extra guidFormat and then your cameras will work but I won't be able to test it without one of your cameras. But I will post it and you can try it. For reference this is where libuvc needs to be modified to add the extra guidFormat: https://github.com/libuvc/libuvc/blob/37f00abd32b083a3d748f2a25c1c794578b51c16/src/stream.c#L109

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                            • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                              @Eric-Katzfey

                              Apologies for the delay. Some other things came up.
                              I was able to pull down the camera information. We have 2 cameras we are trying to get up.

                              Cam 1: https://pastebin.com/qHvHKXay
                              Cam 2: https://pastebin.com/7DgvP58k

                              They appear to be able to post in MJPEG

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                              Eric Katzfey
                              ModalAI Team
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #22

                              @wilkinsaf There is a new version of libuvc available at http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk with the changes. If you rebuild the dev branch of voxl-uvc-server and install build deps from dev you should pick up the new libuvc. Then you can rebuild and test with your camera.

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                              • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                @wilkinsaf There is a new version of libuvc available at http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk with the changes. If you rebuild the dev branch of voxl-uvc-server and install build deps from dev you should pick up the new libuvc. Then you can rebuild and test with your camera.

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                                ModalAI Team
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                                @Eric-Katzfey roger that. thank you for your support here Eric

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                                • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                  @wilkinsaf There is a new version of libuvc available at http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk with the changes. If you rebuild the dev branch of voxl-uvc-server and install build deps from dev you should pick up the new libuvc. Then you can rebuild and test with your camera.

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                                  wilkinsaf
                                  ModalAI Team
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #24

                                  @Eric-Katzfey will post results after run

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                                  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                    @wilkinsaf Project is here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

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                                    wilkinsaf
                                    ModalAI Team
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #25

                                    @Eric-Katzfey Sorry for being such a pain, but it seems like this repo keeps moving.

                                    I went to https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

                                    but got this

                                    533db1c7-724e-4732-bf4a-7659d9acf39d-image.png

                                    I keep searching around for the repo, but can not find it

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                                    • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                                      @Eric-Katzfey Sorry for being such a pain, but it seems like this repo keeps moving.

                                      I went to https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

                                      but got this

                                      533db1c7-724e-4732-bf4a-7659d9acf39d-image.png

                                      I keep searching around for the repo, but can not find it

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                                      Eric Katzfey
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                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #26

                                      @wilkinsaf Sorry, it was setup as private. I changed it to public. Can you try again?

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                                      • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                        @wilkinsaf Sorry, it was setup as private. I changed it to public. Can you try again?

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                                        ModalAI Team
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #27

                                        @Eric-Katzfey Got it, thank you!

                                        Will download and play with

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                                        • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                          @wilkinsaf Sorry, it was setup as private. I changed it to public. Can you try again?

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                                          @Eric-Katzfey Will it remain public?

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