New "New Camera Stack" rpi images?

What is the problem?

My raspberry-pi cam v3 stopped working after upgrade (and I think I know why).

As per the health-check notice I got on my octoprint/octopi server, that my python version is out of date and soon to disappear, I dutifully upgraded using the Raspberry Pi Imager. I noticed that that 'stable' image was much newer than the last time I looked, and also much newer than the 'new camera stack' image. So I (wrongfully) assumed that the new camera stack was now in the stable release. And there was much rejoicing.

Alas, not: sudo service camera-streamer status
Unit camera-streamer.service could not be found.

I couldn't find any place that listed the progress or timeline for the new camera stack, especially wrt the python warning. But I guess my only choice now is to reflash with the (older) "new camera stack" rpi image?

What did you already try to solve it?

Verified I don't have the new camera stack.

Have you tried running in safe mode?

Nope.

Did running in safe mode solve the problem?

Nope

Systeminfo Bundle

octoprint-systeminfo-20250930085941.zip (34.5 KB)

I wasn't yet able to compile the bits and pieces of the new camera stack against Debian Bookworm, which OctoPi 1.1.0 is based off. The new camera stack was and is experimental as there have been some stability issues with its camera server.

I'll see if maybe the compilation situation has resolved itself, but so far it looks bad for the new camera stack sadly.

Oh, that's too bad. It's been working great for me (though I hate that rpi-camv3 ribbon cable)! I haven't done any octopi development, but if I find time, I'll see if I can jump in in some way.

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Maybe see Camera streamer stops sending frames (octoprint multicam setup) Β· Issue #144 Β· ayufan/camera-streamer Β· GitHub

I know nothing of cameras and streaming, so take with a grain of salt.

Good news. I was finally able to build camera-streamer again thanks to some upstream fixes, and have just built and tested a new image that should soon also be available on the imager.

For now you can get it here:

And the corresponding feedback ticket is here:

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