Hyperion usb grabber

grom_e30 · November 25, 2017 at 8:24 PM

Does the hyperion add-on support the use of external grabbers? i have a Fushicai USBTV007 grabber plugged in to my nuc running libreelec 8.2.1 this also has an arduino and the led's connected to that, The kodi grabbing works fine as do the led's but i cant get the usb video grabber to work. In hypercon i can't get the screenshot to work either. as a test i did a install of hyperion on to a raspberry pi running jessie lite and the grabber worked fine on the pi so i know the hardware is functioning. any ideas or suggestions?

if i try to take a screenshot in hypercon i get: No picture found check ssh traffic. Stop Hyperion before you take a screenshot.

wonderiuy · November 28, 2017 at 2:15 PM

Yes, external grabbers are supported via JSON or Proto Server on their specific port

utv007 grabber is supported via v4l2 Grabber

Check here:

HyperCon Grabber - Tab | Hyperion - Forum

grom_e30 · November 28, 2017 at 6:18 PM

yeah i was asking specifically about the libreelec addon version of hyperion as i cant make it work with my usb grabber

wonderiuy · November 29, 2017 at 11:00 AM

all the reference folder are different. Use the hyperConLE to generate the json of the configuration

grom_e30 · November 29, 2017 at 5:59 PM

Quote from wonderiuy

all the reference folder are different. Use the hyperConLE to generate the json of the configuration

i did use the hyperConLE, still was not able to take screenshots or make the grabber work

ecab21 · December 2, 2017 at 1:52 PM

What is your priority on v4l2grabber?

grom_e30 · December 2, 2017 at 1:59 PM

i left it at the default looks like it was set for 900. even with the internal frame grabber disabled i got nothing.

and i don't think the priority would have an effect if you have stop the service to grab an image. that does not work either btw

edit: it appears to work if i set the priority to a lower number (780) and also set it to NTSC even though in the uk we use pal, but the 'take grabber screenshot' still does not work

grom_e30 · December 3, 2017 at 5:40 PM

i have done a bit of playing around and it seems on all versions past 8.0.2 it does not seem to work very well there is only a very small amount of light output when using the usb grabber. im assuming im having the same issue as this post: Why is USB grabber so dark with libreelec Leia (kodi 18) ? Look at the pics | Hyperion - Forum

i am unable to confirm though as i'm unable to take grabber screenshots when using libreelec.

anyone have any insight??

grom_e30 · December 14, 2017 at 6:08 PM

anyone??

**bite_your_idols** · December 19, 2017 at 3:30 PM

Same here. I think is something related with a kernel update and V4L.

We have nothing to do here but waiting for developers... I don't know if LE addon developer can do anything about this or just can wait also until Hyperion team developers make their move...

I must stay in LE8 and miss Netflix addon, it is better than having Nextflix addon but missing hyperion. Ambilight is the main reason I continue using my pi.

grom_e30 · December 27, 2017 at 10:36 PM

ok cool il have to wait would be cool if this does get sorted soon

grom_e30 · March 12, 2018 at 11:31 PM

was there ever any progress on this?

**bite_your_idols** · October 1, 2018 at 11:31 AM

In latest official LE 9 alpha releases hyperion grabber works ok again, like it does in LE 8. I don't know when thiy fixed it because I have been using LE8 until last week.

grom_e30 · November 1, 2018 at 9:18 PM

what hardware was that on the pi?

Hyperion usb grabber

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