Camera not working (invalid option -- 'w')

Zerosum_Nix · January 26, 2021, 11:08pm

Camera model

Raspberry Camera Rev 1.3

What is the problem?

Camera works but stream is not visible

What did you already try to solve it?

Checked camera with vcgencmd get_camera output supported=1 detected=1
Enabled camera in boot/octopi.txt (set to camera="raspi")
Resolved issues with under volting by moving to a better power supply
Accessed http://octopi.local:8080/?action=stream (won't load)
Accessed http://octopi.local:8080(displays page but no images..)
Updated, and upgraded, rebooted, enabled camera within Raspbian using raspi-config
Restarted deamons
Stopped deamon and ran the command manually

Logs (/var/log/webcamd.log, syslog, dmesg, ... no logs, no support)

journalctl -u webcamd output:

Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi systemd[1]: Starting the OctoPi webcam daemon with the user specified config...
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: Starting up webcamDaemon...
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: --- Configuration: ----------------------------
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: cfg_file:      /boot/octopi.txt
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: camera:        raspi
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: usb options:   -r 640x480 -f 10
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: raspi options: -fps 30 -ex auto -awb auto
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: http options:  -w ./www-octopi -n
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: Explicitly USB device:
Jan 26 22:29:04 octopi webcamd[306]: -----------------------------------------------
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: Found video devices:
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: /dev/video0
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: /dev/video10
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: /dev/video11
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: /dev/video12
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: /dev/video13
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: /dev/video14
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: /dev/video15
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: /dev/video16
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: raspi
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: config file='/boot/octopi.txt':Start MJPG-streamer with video device: raspi
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi root[393]: Starting Raspberry Pi camera
Jan 26 22:29:05 octopi webcamd[306]: <13>Jan 26 22:29:05 root: Starting Raspberry Pi camera

sudo service webcamd status outputs:

● webcamd.service - the OctoPi webcam daemon with the user specified config
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/webcamd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-01-26 22:55:06 GMT; 1min 22s ago
  Process: 1219 ExecStart=/root/bin/webcamd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1231 (mjpg_streamer)
    Tasks: 10 (limit: 1939)
   CGroup: /system.slice/webcamd.service
           └─1231 ./mjpg_streamer -o output_http.so -w ./www-octopi -n -i input_raspicam.so -fps 10

Jan 26 22:54:35 octopi mjpg_streamer[1231]: MJPG-streamer [1231]: HTTP Listen Address..: (null)
Jan 26 22:54:35 octopi mjpg_streamer[1231]: MJPG-streamer [1231]: username:password....: disabled
Jan 26 22:54:35 octopi mjpg_streamer[1231]: MJPG-streamer [1231]: commands.............: disabled
Jan 26 22:54:35 octopi mjpg_streamer[1231]: MJPG-streamer [1231]: starting input plugin input_raspicam.so
Jan 26 22:54:35 octopi mjpg_streamer[1231]: MJPG-streamer [1231]: starting output plugin: output_http.so (ID: 00)
Jan 26 22:54:35 octopi mjpg_streamer[1231]: MJPG-streamer [1231]: Starting Camera
Jan 26 22:54:38 octopi webcamd[1219]: Encoder Buffer Size 81920
Jan 26 22:55:06 octopi webcamd[1219]: Done bring up all configured video device
Jan 26 22:55:06 octopi webcamd[1219]: Goodbye...
Jan 26 22:55:06 octopi systemd[1]: Started the OctoPi webcam daemon with the user specified config.

dmesg | grep video outputs:

pi@octopi:~ $ dmesg | grep video
[    6.731478] videodev: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    7.451145] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Device registered as /dev/video10
[    7.458791] bcm2835-isp bcm2835-isp: Device node output[0] registered as /dev/video13
[    7.462380] bcm2835-v4l2: V4L2 device registered as video0 - stills mode > 1280x720
[    7.465978] bcm2835-isp bcm2835-isp: Device node capture[0] registered as /dev/video14
[    7.468662] bcm2835-v4l2: Broadcom 2835 MMAL video capture ver 0.0.2 loaded.
[    7.476751] bcm2835-isp bcm2835-isp: Device node capture[1] registered as /dev/video15
[    7.477141] bcm2835-isp bcm2835-isp: Device node stats[2] registered as /dev/video16
[    7.477713] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Device registered as /dev/video11
[    7.490172] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Device registered as /dev/video12

Additional information about your setup (OctoPrint version, OctoPi version, ...)

System Information

browser.user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.2 Safari/605.1.15
connectivity.connection_check: 192.168.1.1:53
connectivity.connection_ok: true
connectivity.enabled: true
connectivity.online: true
connectivity.resolution_check: octoprint.org
connectivity.resolution_ok: true
env.hardware.cores: 4
env.hardware.freq: 1200
env.hardware.ram: 915722240
env.os.bits: 32
env.os.id: linux
env.os.platform: linux2
env.plugins.pi_support.model: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
env.plugins.pi_support.octopi_version: 0.17.0
env.plugins.pi_support.throttle_state: 0x0
env.python.pip: 19.3.1
env.python.version: 2.7.16
env.python.virtualenv: true
octoprint.safe_mode: false
octoprint.version: 1.5.3

Possible identified Issue:
Manually running ./mjpg_streamer -o output_http.so -w ./www-octopi -n -i input_raspicam.so -fps 10
Gives:

./mjpg_streamer: invalid option -- 'w'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Usage: ./mjpg_streamer
  -i | --input "<input-plugin.so> [parameters]"
  -o | --output "<output-plugin.so> [parameters]"
 [-h | --help ]........: display this help
 [-v | --version ].....: display version information
 [-b | --background]...: fork to the background, daemon mode
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Example #1:
 To open an UVC webcam "/dev/video1" and stream it via HTTP:
  ./mjpg_streamer -i "input_uvc.so -d /dev/video1" -o "output_http.so"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Example #2:
 To open an UVC webcam and stream via HTTP port 8090:
  ./mjpg_streamer -i "input_uvc.so" -o "output_http.so -p 8090"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Example #3:
 To get help for a certain input plugin:
  ./mjpg_streamer -i "input_uvc.so --help"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
In case the modules (=plugins) can not be found:
 * Set the default search path for the modules with:
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugins,
 * or put the plugins into the "/lib/" or "/usr/lib" folder,
 * or instead of just providing the plugin file name, use a complete
   path and filename:
   ./mjpg_streamer -i "/path/to/modules/input_uvc.so"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

EDIT:

so the possible issue (./mjpg_streamer: invalid option -- 'w') is a mistake in the echo from the webcam script. It executes ./mjpg_streamer -o "output_http.so -w ./www-octopi -n" -i "input_raspicam.so -fps 10"` which indeed runs fine - still no webcam though!

Zerosum_Nix · January 26, 2021, 11:17pm

This post in this thread has a similar issue but no answer was provided

Tofoillote · January 27, 2021, 3:05pm

I may suggest you edit your /boot/octopi.txt with sudo nano.

then try :

camera_http_webroot="./www"
camera_http_options=""

next you shouldn't require #USB option until you have an USB webcam. so # it
next your raspicam option may be missing some resolution info.

camera_raspi_options="-x 1296 -y 972 -fps 15"

[Edit for a V1.3 module]

according to : https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/raspbian/applications/camera.md and according you have a V1.3 [Edit] raspicam module

Next rebooted and octoprint restarted

you should obtain some stream infos at : http://[youroctopi_ip_here]/webcam/index.html
or having a mjpg working in

ps -aux | grep mjpg

Tofoillote · January 27, 2021, 3:09pm

though about what sould be missign in you /boot/config.txt

enable raspicam
gpu_mem=256

or whatever value between 144 and 256.

Zerosum_Nix · February 18, 2021, 7:02pm

So it turned out to be my (rookie) mistake...

I did run vcgencmd get_camera to ensure the camera was wired properly.
However I forgot to run raspistill -o test.jpg(again) to verify I actually could get an image back after that.. turned out the sunny connector popped loose when closing the case..