Guys,
Background:
A couple of years and too many new versions of Rasbian back I started a little project to couple the MJPG Streamer project to my now aging computer driven telescope to include the Stellarium telescope interface and an essential focuser all driven through the MJPG Streamer web server. I got it all working but needing to tune the camera parameters I hit a brick wall with the old camera documentation and then someone very clever in Raspberry Land changed everything again, how my focuser talked to the GPIO, the newer operating system(s) etc and the project got parked.
Having reach a pause with the replacement project and now too old to want to sit out in the cold eyeballing the heavens in person the other day I returned to my remoted Telescope project and yes that's all changed as well. Most notably its all 64 bit and the camera system got changed big time.
RSPI_Cam:
This evening I thrashed my way through building the new camera apps on a spare Pi4 that for no good reason uses Bullseye64. I thought I'd got the right web page and spent all evening thrashing through the near endless dependencies, not entirely straight forward, before reaching fetching the Rpi_Cam Apps bit. On the way new commands appear, commands I've never seen or heard of before, even mention of Python!!! and appearing with little explanation. I continued to compiling the apps and straight away it barfs. Seems a load of header files not found. Sure enough, path wise, they are nowhere near. Am I missing some invisible magic that reorders things during compiling?
Was hoping it would be a whole lot simpler and certainly not requiring the mysterious commands to build all the apps in one go. What happened to simple makfiles? Maybe a CMake system as used in MJPG Streamer. A few clues within each of the source code files would have been useful beyond measure like a useful compile command line to include the dependencies and libraries. Its all got too difficult again.
I was hoping to dip in to the new Apps, work out how they worked now and weave that back into my old project but like everything now its buried in new impenetrable magic spells. What happened to "KISS" ... Keep It Simple (for the) Stupid?
What am I missing? Has it been made impenetrable?
Background:
A couple of years and too many new versions of Rasbian back I started a little project to couple the MJPG Streamer project to my now aging computer driven telescope to include the Stellarium telescope interface and an essential focuser all driven through the MJPG Streamer web server. I got it all working but needing to tune the camera parameters I hit a brick wall with the old camera documentation and then someone very clever in Raspberry Land changed everything again, how my focuser talked to the GPIO, the newer operating system(s) etc and the project got parked.
Having reach a pause with the replacement project and now too old to want to sit out in the cold eyeballing the heavens in person the other day I returned to my remoted Telescope project and yes that's all changed as well. Most notably its all 64 bit and the camera system got changed big time.
RSPI_Cam:
This evening I thrashed my way through building the new camera apps on a spare Pi4 that for no good reason uses Bullseye64. I thought I'd got the right web page and spent all evening thrashing through the near endless dependencies, not entirely straight forward, before reaching fetching the Rpi_Cam Apps bit. On the way new commands appear, commands I've never seen or heard of before, even mention of Python!!! and appearing with little explanation. I continued to compiling the apps and straight away it barfs. Seems a load of header files not found. Sure enough, path wise, they are nowhere near. Am I missing some invisible magic that reorders things during compiling?
Was hoping it would be a whole lot simpler and certainly not requiring the mysterious commands to build all the apps in one go. What happened to simple makfiles? Maybe a CMake system as used in MJPG Streamer. A few clues within each of the source code files would have been useful beyond measure like a useful compile command line to include the dependencies and libraries. Its all got too difficult again.
I was hoping to dip in to the new Apps, work out how they worked now and weave that back into my old project but like everything now its buried in new impenetrable magic spells. What happened to "KISS" ... Keep It Simple (for the) Stupid?
What am I missing? Has it been made impenetrable?
Statistics: Posted by RaspISteve — Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:50 am