Installing uv4l on Raspian Buster
14 Dec 2019This is a recipe to install uv4l on a Raspberry 4 computer with Raspian Buster. Not much has changed since Raspian Stretch. As this recipe is followed, please pay attention to the details!
After this install, run uv4l as follows:
uv4l --driver raspicam --auto-video_nr --encoding h264 --enable-server on
And then view the stream in a browser with (pleae note your IP address might be different)
http://192.168.1.9:8080/stream
Please see my video controller software PiE, it uses uv4l out of the box on both Stretch and Buster.
Recipe
(1)
Add the uv4l key to your apt-key package manager.
curl http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/lpkey.asc | sudo apt-key add -
Note: I am not sure what the difference is between lpkey.asc and lrkey.asc? My installations on Stretch were using the wrong key! I was using lrkey.asc while I should have been using the p variant lpkey.asc. Not sure why this worked on Stretch but it did. For Buster, you must use lpkey.asc.
(2) Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list using sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/raspbian/stretch stretch main
(3) Update apt-get and install with apt-get using
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install uv4l uv4l-server uv4l-raspicam
Important: I was previously using sudo apt-get -qq --allow-unauthenticated install uv4l uv4l-server uv4l-raspicam and with Buster, the use of --allow-unauthenticated seems to break the install?
(4) Run the uv4l server with
uv4l --driver raspicam --auto-video_nr --encoding h264 --width 1280 --height 720 --enable-server on
And then view the stream in a browser with (please note your IP address might be different)
http://192.168.1.9:8080/stream
Troubleshooting
Sometimes you get multiple /dev/video0, /dev/video1, /dev/video10 excetera devices. Feel free to remove them with sudo rm /dev/video* and then maybe restart with sudo reboot.
Details:
sudo apt-get update returns
Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/raspbian/stretch stretch InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
sudo apt-get install uv4l uv4l-server uv4l-raspicam returns
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
uv4l is already the newest version (1.9.17).
uv4l-raspicam is already the newest version (1.9.63).
The following additional packages will be installed:
libssl1.0.2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libssl1.0.2 uv4l-server
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,582 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,237 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:1 http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/raspbian/stretch stretch/main armhf uv4l-server armhf 1.1.125 [1,689 kB]
Get:2 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf libssl1.0.2 armhf 1.0.2q-2 [893 kB]
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package libssl1.0.2:armhf.
(Reading database ... 45170 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libssl1.0.2_1.0.2q-2_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libssl1.0.2:armhf (1.0.2q-2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package uv4l-server.
Preparing to unpack .../uv4l-server_1.1.125_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking uv4l-server (1.1.125) ...
Setting up libssl1.0.2:armhf (1.0.2q-2) ...
Setting up uv4l-server (1.1.125) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10+rpi1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
This is the contents of /etc/apt/source.list
deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free rpi
deb http://www.linux-projects.org/listing/uv4l_repo/raspbian/stretch stretch main