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Comment by Dominik Fretz on November 7, 2012 at 5:05pm

Hi Dan,
Just posted a new image. See here: https://github.com/codewithpassion/openrov-image

That should fix all the issues!
Except, sometimes the image is still broken on the first request. Just hit f5.
Cheers, Dominik

Comment by Dominik Fretz on November 1, 2012 at 6:14am

Hi Dan,
Thanks for your input. I'll have a look on the latest image (currently testing) and see what I can do.
The libs that are needed by mjpg_streamer are in /usr/local/lib and AFAIK you should be able to start the process manually with sudo node server.js

Comment by Dan Myers on November 1, 2012 at 5:55am

The camera wasn't starting when I was running the app from the /etc/init.d/openrov script.  I also kept running into problems with trying to start it via 'node server.js' as the user 'rov' so I did the following:

chown -R root:rov /opt/openrov
chmod -r 775 /opt/openrov

This allowed me to fire up the openrov app via 'node server.js' as the rov user.  If I loaded the control stream via  http://rov:8080  the camera would not stream but the shell window indicated the stream was starting.  If I hit 'ctrl r' and refreshed the window the camera would load into the window.

Next I stopped the session and tried to start it again as the root user (since the permissions on the /opt/openrov where all root:root I assumed the service startup was also trying to fire it up as root.  I wasn't able to start the app as a root user and I was receiving an error that said "hey you need to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH".  I was going to grab the path out of the rov user .bashrc but I made an assumption that the startup script was also missing the path and maybe that is why the mjpg_streamer couldn't start?  Anyway, I next added the following:

echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/profile.d/rov.sh
echo "export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/node/bin" >> /etc/profile.d/rov.sh
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/rov.sh

I could of added the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the root .bashrc but I wanted to see if the script needed the path.  I also could of added the same LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the openrov script I suppose.  I was going with the plan of setting the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH for everyone so that any user I created or whatever, would have the correct path.

Next I added -l to the shebang ling of /etc/init.d/openrov

#! /bin/sh -l

After that root could start up the server.js, the rov user could start up the server.js and the /etc/init.d/openrov also worked.

Now, the catch is I am still stuck with having to do a refresh after loading the app into the browser. I.E. 'ctrl r'. 

Comment by Dominik Fretz on November 1, 2012 at 1:34am

What tweaks did you had to do? We might be able to add them right away.

Cheers Dominik/@codewithpassion