Category Archives: Hausautomation

Fritz!OS 5.50, oder: das Ende der Kompatibilität

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Letzten Donnerstag habe ich auf meiner 7270 v3 mal die aktuelle Fritz!OS-Version 5.50 ausprobiert, frei nach dem Motto »mal eben schnell am Donnerstag abend upgraden, vielleicht kitzelt es ja auch noch’n MBit/sec mehr raus«.

Nun, es war ein Abend, den ich so schnell nicht vergessen werde — Fritz!OS 5.50 (Labor) war ein das Heimnetz und den Internetzugang killendes Desaster :( Continue reading →

Seagate GoFlex Net, debianized

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This is kind of an update to a previous article focussed on puitting Debian onto a Dockstar. In the meantime — it’s two years since the Dockstar was famous (and cheap; or: famous because it was so damned cheap :-)) –, it’s SATA brother, the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Net (yes, a long name; STAK200 is the product code), dropped into the 30 EUR prince range, and, frankly, if you do use the USB bus for anything, like e. g. stream DVB off attached devices, you do not want your system’s normal disk I/O gets in the way here.
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Webcam server with TL-MR 3020?

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Hmm. Previously, I build two nice webcam-servers out of Fonera 2.0g boxes (German posts: 1 & 2). cpuinfo of the Foneras is as follows:

root@cam-serv3:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
system type             : Atheros AR2315
processor               : 0
cpu model               : MIPS 4KEc V6.4
BogoMIPS                : 183.50
wait instruction        : yes
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 16
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : no
ASEs implemented        :
shadow register sets    : 1
core                    : 0
VCED exceptions         : not available
VCEI exceptions         : not available

There I run two jobs, for /dev/video0 and /dev/video1, of mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -f 10 -r 960x720 ..., which results in this top output:

Mem: 19836K used, 10080K free, 0K shrd, 1140K buff, 6096K cached
CPU:  19% usr  11% sys   0% nice   1% idle   0% io  31% irq  34% softirq
Load average: 2.57 2.51 2.45
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND
 1518  1064 root     R     8732  29%  33% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -d /dev
 1517  1060 root     R     8572  29%  26% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -f 10 -
 1065  1064 root     R     8732  29%  20% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -d /dev
 1061  1060 root     S     8572  29%   7% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -f 10 -
 1577  1520 root     R     1960   7%   6% top -d 2 
 1519   933 root     S     1996   7%   1% /usr/sbin/dropbear -p 22 
 1064  1058 root     S     8732  29%   0% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -d /dev
 1058     1 root     S     8732  29%   0% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -d /dev
 1067  1064 root     S     8732  29%   0% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -d /dev
 1060  1056 root     S     8572  29%   0% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -f 10 -
 1056     1 root     S     8572  29%   0% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -f 10 -
 1066  1060 root     S     8572  29%   0% mjpg_streamer -i input_uvc.so -f 10 -
 1055     1 root     S     1976   7%   0% udhcpc -t 0 -i ath0 -b -p /var/run/at
  520     1 root     S     1972   7%   0% udhcpc -t 0 -i eth0.1 -b -p /var/run/
[...]

Recently I joined the MR3020 hype, them being quite similar to the Fonera 2.0g systems, i. e. Atheros-based, supported by OpenWR, rather cheap (<30 EUR) and with USB; only drawback is the ridiculously small on-board Flash:

root@cam-serv5:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
system type             : Atheros AR9330 rev 1
machine                 : TP-LINK TL-MR3020
processor               : 0
cpu model               : MIPS 24Kc V7.4
BogoMIPS                : 265.42
wait instruction        : yes
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 16
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0000, 0x0280, 0x05d0, 0x0630]
ASEs implemented        : mips16
shadow register sets    : 1
kscratch registers      : 0
core                    : 0
VCED exceptions         : not available
VCEI exceptions         : not available

But to my big disappointment, running even only one process of mjpg_streamer, /usr/bin/mjpg_streamer --input input_uvc.so --device /dev/video0 --fps 1 --resolution 1280x720 ..., seems to max the system out, and anything above 1 fps, I tested 2, 5, 10, gives quite chopy images, distorted in odd ways. top says:

Mem: 25868K used, 3308K free, 0K shrd, 1412K buff, 5392K cached
CPU:   0% usr   0% sys   0% nic  97% idle   0% io   0% irq   0% sirq
Load average: 0.06 0.11 0.11 1/41 1542
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ %CPU COMMAND
 1514     1 root     S    24424  84%   0% /usr/bin/mjpg_streamer --input input_
 1541  1431 root     R     1496   5%   0% top -d 2
 1430  1362 root     S     1216   4%   0% /usr/sbin/dropbear -P /var/run/dropbe
 1431  1430 root     S     1504   5%   0% -ash
  592     1 root     S     1504   5%   0% /sbin/syslogd -C16
 1140     1 root     S     1504   5%   0% /sbin/udhcpc -t 0 -i wlan0 -b -p /var
...

So, it does not seem to be a CPU limitation; the CPU should be even more powerful than the Fonera’s, and the minor increase in resolution, 1280×720 instead of 960×720, should be compensated by far by the two USB cams served by the Fonera. Any opinions or tips?