[solved]Single webcam, Crowsnest vs directly in Mainsail?

[stone kettle]

I have Mainsail + Crowsnet setup for a single arducam (pi cam 3 clone). When I set this up, I had the impression I should use Crowsnest because it was the modern way to do this. I got it working (either with webrtc and mjpeg) in the Mainsail UI, but now I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with the Obico Klipper plugin and this has me looking at each piece of the puzzle.

So, is there any benefit to me using Crowsnest vs just a [webcam] section in mainsail.cfg

I did notice one odd thing with my config, localhost:7125/server/webcams/list reports "aspect_ratio": "4:3", but the resolution of the camera in crowsnest.cfg is clearly 16:9. Not sure if this is related though. But it is the thing that got me wondering.

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[normal flint]

mainsail.cfg are klipper macros and read only

Klipper doesn't support that webcam section

That's a Moonraker section and that section will only add a webcam that you can view in the UI, basically the same as the UI does for you already

So you cannot just define that section and get a running stream. That doesn't work. You need some streamer, like Crowsnest runs for you

[solemn kettle]

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[stone kettle]

Ahh, I mixed up config names. So the moonraker [webcam] section just lets Mainsail show my browser a webcam stream.

[normal flint]

Exactly. It doesn't start a stream for you

[stone kettle]

Thanks! Ok, so I'll leave this piece in go see how the obico-klipper plugin is doing things.

[normal flint]

:7125/server/webcams/list reports "aspect_ratio": "4:3"
Most likely some default and it doesn't really matter in the end