How to install on Rasbian Buster? about hkcam HOT 6 CLOSED

Running on Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Buster!!

Hereby my detailed instructions:

Bases on Robert Carpenter's installation with a few changes/additions:

1 Preparations:

• Flash SD card with image Raspberry Buster Lite using Raspberry Pi Imager app or equivalent.
• add the files ssh & wpa_supplicant.conf (with your Wifi-settings) in the root of the card
• Put SD in Raspberry-Pi Zero W, and powerup your Raspberry Pi
• find ip-address and connect with ssh pi@ip-address
• The password is: raspberry

2 Change basic settings:

• sudo raspi-config
• Change password, hostname, GPU —>128 Mb, Timezone, Wifi regional settings, expand file-system), enable Camera when using Raspberry Pi camera module, for usb-camera leave off. reboot
• connect with ssh pi@ip-address
• the password is now your created password
• sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y
• sudo reboot

3 Before you go any further be sure your camera is working! If not resolve this first:

• connect with ssh pi@ip-address
• the password is again your created password
• test for Raspberry Pi camera module:
• raspistill -o test.jpg
• test for usb-camera:
• sudo apt install fswebcam
• fswebcam test.jpg
  You might need to add “dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable” in /boot/cmdline.txt

• sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
• add dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable
  followed by ctrl-x, y, Enter

4 If camera is working, than install the following:

• sudo apt install raspberrypi-kernel-headers
• sudo apt install v4l2loopback-dkms
• v4l2-ctl --list-devices will list your videodevices, look for your camera device, should be /dev/video0.
• echo 'options v4l2loopback video_nr=0' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/v4l2loopback.conf
• sudo modprobe v4l2loopback
• echo v4l2loopback | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
• sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2
• echo bcm2835-v4l2 | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
• sudo reboot
• connect with ssh pi@ip-address
• the password is again your created password
• Check if v4l2loopback is correct installed by:
• v4l2-ctl --list-devices
• If all correct you'll find detailed info about your camera-device /dev/video1, and the virtual video device /dev/video0.
• sudo apt install ffmpeg
• Check if ffmpeg is working with:
• ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video1 -codec:v copy -f v4l2 /dev/video0
  For older camera's you might need: ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video1 -vf format=yuv420p -f v4l2 /dev/video0
  Alsof you might need to use LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libv4l/v4l1compat.so ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video1 -codec:v copy -f v4l2 /dev/video0 or LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libv4l/v4l1compat.so ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video1 -vf format=yuv420p -f v4l2 /dev/video0

5 Install HKCam

• wget https://github.com/brutella/hkcam/releases/download/v0.0.9/hkcam-v0.0.9_linux_armhf.tar.gz
• tar xzf hkcam-v0.0.9_linux_armhf.tar.gz
• cd hkcam-v0.0.9_linux_armhf
• sudo cp usr/bin/hkcam /usr/local/bin
• cd /
• sudo adduser --system --ingroup video hkcam
• sudo usermod -a -G video hkcam

6 Edit/add Systemd Service Configuration and Run Script
Systemd Service Configuration:
$ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/hkcam.service
add:

# /etc/systemd/system/hkcam.service

[Unit]
Description=HKcam HomeKit Camera
After=syslog.target network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=hkcam
WorkingDirectory=/home/hkcam
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/hkcam
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
KillMode=process

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

followed by; ctrl-x, y, Enter

Run Script, more settings for HKCam found here:
sudo nano /etc/hkcam
add:

#!/bin/bash
# /etc/hkcam

# set the video4linux ctl parameters
v4l2-ctl --set-fmt-video=width=1280,height=720,pixelformat=YU12
v4l2-ctl -c video_bitrate=1000000

# exec over to hkcam  
exec /usr/local/bin/hkcam --min_video_bitrate=500 --multi_stream=true
# for old camera’s
# exec LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/local/bin/hkcam --min_video_bitrate=500

followed by ctrl-x, y, Enter

7 Activate the service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start hkcam
sudo systemctl enable hkcam
sudo reboot

Your HKCam should now be working. Connect in the Homekit-app, following the instructions.

Debugging

If experience issues with the hkcam daemon, you can find log outputs at journalctl -xefu hkcam

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I haven't tested it on Buster yet.

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@La-te I went through a manual install on Stretch, and my notes are here. I'm sure it's not identical but the installation is straightforward enough that, as long as the packages exist for Buster, I doubt it'll cause any problems.

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@La-te I went through a manual install on Stretch, and my notes are here. I'm sure it's not identical but the installation is straightforward enough that, as long as the packages exist for Buster, I doubt it'll cause any problems.

Attempting to install it on Buster according to your notes, it won't install v4l2loopback, tried a workaround by installing it in a different way, but then I get the modprobe: FATAL: Module v4l2loopback not found in directory /lib/modules/4.xxxxx error.

I'm too much of a n00b to figure this out on my own, any clues on what I could do to get it working?

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See #90 for the changes I did.

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hkcam supports Buster and Raspberry Pi OS since version 0.1.0.

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