#HELP# building an Pan-Tilt Webinterface for Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT FULL KIT with Webcam Server

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Hi have just received my Pan Tilt Hat. like you followed the instructions and getting the exact same error. Did you ever resolve this?

File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pantilthat/pantilt.py”, line 72, in setup
self._i2c = SMBus(1)

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Hello Guys sorry for the Bump,

I am doing a college project security system.

I am trying to get this working on a public website the Pan and tilt buttons work fine but the stream shows “loading…” i have the ports 8082 and 8084 forwarded.

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hey everyone,

i am willing to control my pan-tilt like you.
So I tried waveform as noticed
but this strange error stuck me.

python3 server.py
Initializing camera
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.camera' (1:ENOMEM)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.camera' (1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 456, in _init_camera
    self._camera = mo.MMALCamera()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera/mmalobj.py", line 2279, in __init__
    super(MMALCamera, self).__init__()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera/mmalobj.py", line 633, in __init__
    prefix="Failed to create MMAL component %s" % self.component_type)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera/exc.py", line 184, in mmal_check
    raise PiCameraMMALError(status, prefix)
picamera.exc.PiCameraMMALError: Failed to create MMAL component b'vc.ril.camera': Out of memory

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "server.py", line 184, in <module>
    main()
  File "server.py", line 134, in main
    with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 431, in __init__
    self._init_camera(camera_num, stereo_mode, stereo_decimate)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera/camera.py", line 460, in _init_camera
    "Camera is not enabled. Try running 'sudo raspi-config' "
picamera.exc.PiCameraError: Camera is not enabled. Try running 'sudo raspi-config' and ensure that the camera has been enabled.

Looking for UX/UI, I found rpi-deep-pantilt

pip3 install rpi-deep-pantilt

also discovered

Do you know other?

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Has there been any updates to this? I can get the code to work (kind of) but cannot see the tilt & pan controls. If I use the master branch, I can see the video streaming, but no controls. If I change to the pantilthat branch, I get the errors listed by Ryan780 above. Meh!

pi@raspicam2:~/pistreaming $ git checkout pantilthat
Branch ‘pantilthat’ set up to track remote branch ‘pantilthat’ from ‘origin’.
Switched to a new branch ‘pantilthat’
pi@raspicam2:~/pistreaming $ python server.py
Initializing HAT
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/pistreaming/server.py”, line 259, in
main()
File “/home/pi/pistreaming/server.py”, line 199, in main
hat.servo_enable(1, False)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pantilthat/pantilt.py”, line 395, in servo_enable
self.setup()
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pantilthat/pantilt.py”, line 80, in setup
self._set_config()
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pantilthat/pantilt.py”, line 118, in _set_config
self._i2c_write_byte(self.REG_CONFIG, config)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pantilthat/pantilt.py”, line 209, in _i2c_write_byte
raise IOError(“Failed to write byte”)
OSError: Failed to write byte