Arducam autofocus camera not working

RavenOne · February 22, 2023, 10:48pm

** Arducam IMX519 Autofocus Camera Module for Raspberry Pi, 16MP AF Raspberry Pi Camera Compatible with Raspberry Pi 4B/3B+, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, NVIDIA Jetson Nano/NX and NVIDIA Orin NX/AGX Orin**

Cannot get the camera working. I'm running the CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 Extreme Kit - 128GB Edition (1GB RAM)

I've looked everywhere online and tried numerous things, watched numerous videos, etc. with NO JOY.
I've got two other cameras coming to see if they work.

Can't get them at the moment but will post ASAP (/var/log/webcamd.log, syslog, dmesg, ... no logs, no support)

Latest builds of Octopi, Octoprint, Octodash

cereal_killer · February 23, 2023, 4:24am

Hi, I have the same camera and I used this guide. It should get the camera working on octopi, but I don't know how to make it work with octolapse. I am having issues with the snapshot url in octolapse. Hopefully this helps!

RavenOne · February 23, 2023, 1:57pm

Thanks CK! I'll give this a try tonight!

RavenOne · February 24, 2023, 12:25pm

So I was unable to get this working........so I tried a webcam (USB connection) and it worked! I'm thinking I'll send all these Arducams back and stick with what's working. Unless I can find an easier way of making them work.

Charlie_Powell · February 24, 2023, 1:47pm

Could you try this new camera stack that's being worked on that should add compatibility? Your Arducam camera would need to use libcamera and this image should support that. It's in testing for wider rollout so if it works please let Gina know!

github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPi-UpToDate

Feedback for the new camera-streamer based webcam stack

opened 12:55PM - 22 Feb 23 UTC

foosel

OctoPi 1.0.0 is out, and I also have a new camera stack for you all to test! … Over the course of the past two weeks I've been setting up a CustoPiZer build script to swap the mjpg-streamer/webcamd combo on OctoPi that currently only supports the old legacy camera stack with a new camera-streamer and systemd based setup that supports libcamera (think RPiCam v3 as well as newer Arducams on top of the old ones). Some systemd magic takes care of camera detection, hotplug and even multicam support (successfully tested with two USB cameras and one RPiv3cam). You can find the image here: https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPi-UpToDate/releases/tag/1.0.0-1.8.6-20230222114422. Some first config docs are available here: https://faq.octoprint.org/camera-streamer-config And finally, this is the source tree used for the build: https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPi-UpToDate/tree/camera-streamer I hope to be able to merge this into the OctoPi-UpToDate main branch ASAP, after which it will become part of the OctoPi image distributed on the download page and RPi Imager, but some testing from others would certainly help here 🙂 Please provide feedback on your experience with this image in this ticket, whether things work for you or not. Make sure to *at least* include the following: - Everything working? - Pi model - used cameras - in case of issues: related logs (`journalctl -u camera-streamer -u camera-streamer-libcamera -u camera-streamer-usb@default > logs.txt`)

It should be reasonably easy to setup (although it is flashing a new OctoPi image - take a backup first)

RavenOne · February 24, 2023, 2:22pm

I think I'll wait a little bit and see what others say about this. Isn't there a way to add this without doing the entire image? I hate having to redo all the plugins, etc.

Charlie_Powell · February 24, 2023, 2:47pm

Unfortunately not in this case - you could install camera-streamer and setup all the scripts yourself, but the idea of the prebuilt image is to avoid that.

If you take a backup inside OctoPrint (& download it of course) then when you flash the new image you can restore said backup to get all your configuration & plugins back automatically.

RavenOne · February 24, 2023, 6:07pm

Thanks Charlie!
So if I understand you correctly I go into Octoprint and make a backup (which I've done). I've downloaded it to my PC. I take the newly flashed SD card and insert it into my Pi. Then power/boot up and once Octoprint is running again restore the backup I originally made. Correct?

b-morgan · February 25, 2023, 1:04pm

That is correct. That is exactly what I did. When you connect with a browser to the new image, the first run setup has a step to restore from a backup.