Having trouble getting Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3/V3 to work

Camera model

Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3

What is the problem?

I am trying to set up my Module 3 camera and is not detecting the camera. I have verified that the connector is connected properly and in the right direction and not in the display connector.

What did you already try to solve it?

I have configured octopi.txt to be "camera=raspi" and restarted octopi with no luck and don't know what else to do (see octopi.txt below).

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### Configure which camera to use
#
# Available options are:
# - auto: tries first usb webcam, if that's not available tries raspi cam
# - usb: only tries usb webcam
# - raspi: only tries raspi cam
#
# Defaults to auto
#
camera="raspi"

### Additional options to supply to MJPG Streamer for the USB camera
#
# See https://faq.octoprint.org/mjpg-streamer-config for available options
#
# Defaults to a resolution of 640x480 px and a framerate of 10 fps
#
#camera_usb_options="-r 1440x1080 -f 30"

### Additional webcam devices known to cause problems with -f
#
# Apparently there a some devices out there that with the current
# mjpg_streamer release do not support the -f parameter (for specifying
# the capturing framerate) and will just refuse to output an image if it
# is supplied.
#
# The webcam daemon will detect those devices by their USB Vendor and Product
# ID and remove the -f parameter from the options provided to mjpg_streamer.
#
# By default, this is done for the following devices:
#   Logitech C170 (046d:082b)
#   GEMBIRD (1908:2310)
#   Genius F100 (0458:708c)
#   Cubeternet GL-UPC822 UVC WebCam (1e4e:0102)
#
# Using the following option it is possible to add additional devices. If
# your webcam happens to show above symptoms, try determining your cam's
# vendor and product id via lsusb, activating the line below by removing # and
# adding it, e.g. for two broken cameras "aabb:ccdd" and "aabb:eeff"
#
#   additional_brokenfps_usb_devices=("aabb:ccdd" "aabb:eeff")
#
# If this fixes your problem, please report it back so we can include the device
# out of the box: https://github.com/guysoft/OctoPi/issues
#
#additional_brokenfps_usb_devices=()

### Additional options to supply to MJPG Streamer for the RasPi Cam
#
# See https://faq.octoprint.org/mjpg-streamer-config for available options.
#
# NOTE: Newer raspi cam modules are reporting as usb devices causing these
#       options to be ignored. Set `camera="raspi"` to avoid these issues.
#
# Defaults to 10fps
#
# camera_raspi_options="-x 1920 -y 1080 -fps 50"

### Configuration of camera HTTP output
#
# Usually you should NOT need to change this at all! Only touch if you
# know what you are doing and what the parameters mean.
#
# Below settings are used in the mjpg-streamer call like this:
#
#   -o "output_http.so -w $camera_http_webroot $camera_http_options"
#
# Current working directory is the mjpg-streamer base directory.
#
#camera_http_webroot="./www-octopi"
#camera_http_options="-n"

### EXPERIMENTAL
# Support for different streamer types.
#
# Available options:
#   mjpeg [default] - stable MJPG-streamer
#   hls - experimental FFMPEG HLS streamer
#camera_streamer=mjpeg

Systeminfo Bundle

octoprint-systeminfo-20230904100703.zip (378.4 KB)

Additional information about your setup

Raspberry Pi 3B+, OctoPrint version: 1.9.2, OctoPi version: Build 2022.09.27.151125, based on OctoPi 0.18.0, Ender 3 Pro

If the best option would be just to reinstall OctoPi since I had it installed before the new camera backend, I can do that but would prefer to avoid that option.

Any help is appreciated!
Thank you.

Yeah that would be the best option.
But don't worry you can keep your stuff. There is a backup and restore feature in the options :slight_smile:

Ok! Will do and will update whenever I have the chance (hopefully today).

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Ok, I’m running into another problem. I can’t go to octopi.local or ender3pro.local as there is no website listed for me to go to so I can’t setup octopi.

Notice on my screenshot that just before the "https is also available..." are the addresses to use and your screenshot doesn't have any!

I'm not sure what needs to be fixed but I think that is the problem.

Yeah it’s super frustrating! I tried both OctoPi stable and the new camera stack version with the same results. I even tried deleting all the partitions on my SD card with the same result. I even tried using the text file to configure WiFi but that didn’t do anything ether. I will say that I know it’s not connected to Wi-Fi as it doesn’t have an IP address. So that could be the reason why. I’m not sure what to do anymore to fix it.

The Raspberry Pi Imager (I have 1.7.5) allows you to setup the WiFi before you flash the image. This has worked for me on a Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B+, and 4B (and Zero 2W) with multiple versions of OctoPi including the ones with the new camera stack.

Options for troubleshooting include using an ethernet wire or using a keyboard and an HDMI monitor. Need to verify that your WiFi hardware is working. Another option would be to install the base Raspberry Pi OS but if the hardware is broken, then that won't work either.

Once you have access to the command line there are various commands that can be used to troubleshoot the WiFi.

Ok i figured it out. I believe its something with not applying the correct wifi country setting. Heres what i did.

  1. Configure installer settings to be on 2.4 ghz wifi and install
  2. startup PI and SSH into it and do sudo raspi-config
  3. Set 5ghz Wifi and wifi country
  4. do sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
  5. remove 2.4 ghz wifi and change "country=" to what country your in
  6. save and reboot

And after ALL of that, the new camera stack did make the Pi Camera Module 3 work so thankfully it was worth it the quality is amazing!

UPDATE:

Found a better solution to Wi-Fi problem:

  1. Use installer to set Wi-Fi settings and install OctoPi
  2. After installing, open octopi-wpa-supplicant.txt
  3. Remove comments and add SSID/Password (Don’t forget about country code!)
  4. Save and put SD card in Pi