Camera model: unsure (bought off ebay) but dedicated raspberry pi camera "1080p camera module board 5pm webcam video for raspberry pi 2/3"
What is the problem? Camera not working after migrating from Raspberry Pi 2 to 3B (plus leaving it for almost a year).
What did you already try to solve it?
I've done a complete update of Octoprint to 1.7.3, updated to Python 3, Octopi 0.18.0. In SSH I've gone into sudo raspi-config and turned on the webcam. Webcam is turned on in the webcam settings on the Octoprint page. I tried installing the fswebcam package within SSH and tried the fswebcam command but it comes back as "no such file or directory" (referring to /dev/video0).
When I try to view the webcam on the Octoprint page, I get the error: Webcam stream not loaded
It might not be configured correctly or require authentication. You can change the URL of the stream under "Settings" > "Webcam & Timelapse" > "Webcam" > "Stream URL". If you don't have a webcam you can also just disable webcam support there.
Currently configured stream URL: webcam/?action=stream
Under webcam settings, the stream url test comes back with a broken link. The light on the webcam is on so it's at least getting power. I suppose it could have broken but I'm thinking there's a wrong setting somewhere.
In octopi.txt I've set it to raspi camera only in an attempt to fix it but didn't solve the problem.
I was hoping someone had a solution to this. I upgraded to OctoPi 0.18.0 with OctoPrint 1.8.0rc3 (build 20220329115556) and this issue popped up. . My webcamd.log has the same file not error but I don’t know where the file should be.
Here you go. I included haproxy.log as I see 404 and 503 errors related to the webcam. I was going to sleuth down where ./www-octopi was but life happened. I suspect file locations changed and my config needs to be updated (I never touched it before - it just worked, lol).
It is showing in the webcamd.log that there is no such file or directory for mjpg-streamer. Could you check what the results of ls -l /home/pi/mjpg-streamer/ are?
Not sure how that could have got changed/deleted on your install, but we will debug it I guess...
Edit: This is actually a different issue to the one @zdallin has - they have no detected video devices on the Pi, yours has issues with the software. It may be wise to continue in a different thread to avoid confusion.
I'm sorry...I didn't meant to hijack this thread. I'll start a new one (or move this once I figure out how to move a group of posts to a new thread).
pi@DJango:~/mjpg-streamer $ ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 7 pi pi 4096 Mar 29 19:19 mjpg-streamer-experimental
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4034 Feb 27 19:30 README.md
. My webcamd.log has the same file not error but I don’t know where the file should be.