Camera model
2x Raspberry Pi Cam Module v2 (imx219, 3280x2464 max. resolution)
What is the problem?
Some time ago I utilized a camera multiplexer board to connect two pi camera modules to my octopi (for viewing from different angles). The active camera is selected via i2c (short python scripts adressing the correct i2c register) and could be done via the gui (calling the corresponding script).
To make the board useable it needs to be initialized before use (via separate python init script). Until now this has been done by calling the init script from the webcamd init function in /etc/init.d/webcamd:
do_start()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started
#init ivport
python3 /home/pi/ivport/init_ivport.py
is_alive $PIDFILE
RETVAL="$?"
if [ $RETVAL != 0 ]; then
start-stop-daemon --start --background --no-close --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile \
--startas /bin/bash --chuid $USER --user $USER -- -c "exec $DAEMON" >> $LOG 2>&1
RETVAL="$?"
fi
}
Worked like a charm. But since 1.4.x it is broken...
Now if I boot up the octopi I get a "webcamstream could not be loaded" in the control tab. If I go to the stream URL it says that the webcam server is currently not running.
If however I reboot the pi (no coldboot, just a reboot without power cycling) I get an image right after it comes back in the control tab. Something seems to have changed in the process of the webcam init. I checked with a output file that the init script is called by webcamd init. So I suspect it is a timing issue? The script is executed after the raspberry pi tries to detect the cam?
If I issue the commands on first boot I get:
pi@octopi:~ $ sudo vcgencmd get_camera
supported=1 detected=0
pi@octopi:~ $ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
bcm2835-codec (platform:bcm2835-codec):
/dev/video10
/dev/video11
/dev/video12
Failed to open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
After a reboot:
pi@octopi:~ $ sudo vcgencmd get_camera
supported=1 detected=1
pi@octopi:~ $ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
bcm2835-codec (platform:bcm2835-codec):
/dev/video10
/dev/video11
/dev/video12
mmal service 16.1 (platform:bcm2835-v4l2):
/dev/video0
To rule out any funky errors I connected a single raspicam (without the multiplexer) it is recognized on first boot and displays the picture right after bootup.
What did you already try to solve it?
systemctl restart webcamd.service
init script called from webcamd init
init script called by @ reboot cronjob
init script called in rc.local
systemd unit calling init script with:
- multiuser.target (unsuccessful -> OSError: [Errno 121] Remote I/O error)
- graphical.target (successful -> (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) but still no picture on first boot)
Logs (/var/log/webcamd.log, syslog, dmesg, ... no logs, no support)
dmesg.log (20.3 KB) syslog.log (365.2 KB) webcamd.log (989.8 KB)
Additional information about your setup (OctoPrint version, OctoPi version, ...)
OctoPrint Version 1.4.2
OctoPi Version 0.15.1, running on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
###cam1.py###
#!/usr/bin/env python3
try:
import smbus
import RPi.GPIO as gp
gp.setwarnings(False)
gp.setmode(gp.BOARD)
gp.setup(11, gp.OUT)
except:
print ("There are no IIC.py or RPi.GPIO module.")
sys.exit(0)
#init: enable bus
bus = smbus.SMBus(1)
bus.write_byte_data((0x70), (0x00), (0x01))
#redundant?
bus.write_byte_data((0x70), (0x00), (0x01))
gp.output(11, False)
###init_ivport.py###
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import smbus
if __name__ == "__main__":
bus = smbus.SMBus(1)
bus.write_byte_data((0x70), (0x00), (0x01))
with open('/home/pi/ivport/init_log.txt', 'a') as file:
file.write('initialized ivport board...')