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Debugcam and cleaner code

A project log for Fred the Ripper

Fred the Ripper (FtR) is a CD-ripping (or recording if you want) robot based largely on the acrylic "uArm" 4-axis desktop arm.

enkiEnki 02/25/2018 at 22:520 Comments

Changed the code around a bit to make sure I gather all the logs generated by a single rip in the most simple way (using journald).

This allowed me to also support a "debugcam" - recording everyting happening on the robot workspace when a rip is executing. This uses a webcam working with ffmpeg to write a low-res low framerate video into the storage directory.

During this I discovered that ffmpeg can't record to VFAT because of a weird EINVAL returned by the kernel when trying to openat(). Discovered this using strace(), had no inclination to debug this further so I just changed the storage filesystem to be ext4. Reduces compatibility with Windows but meh.

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