Hi,
I have a Raspberry V3B+ v1.3 with OctiPi V0.17 and a Raspberry Pi Cam V2.1 (with 3 flat ribbon cables to be sure the cable is not faulty)
Fresh install (actually 2 times after these problems).
I am working with Windows 10 (Bonjour is installed)
OctiPrint is working good, I can connect easy to it through the IP adress.
I just can't get the cam to work in OctoPrint. I can connect to OctoPrint easily via the IP adress in Chrome.
I tried the octipi.local:8080 page and see if I could see a picture on the mjpg streamer test page
This failed, nothing to see.
In Putty (SSH) I have also enabled the connection to the camera in the raspi-config menu.
I have tried within Putty (SSH) to see if the localhost:8080 was returning something, see below:
pi@octopi:~ $ curl -v http://localhost:8080/
- Expire in 0 ms for 6 (transfer 0x1a80880)
- lost of these more
- Trying ::1...
- TCP_NODELAY set
- Expire in 149998 ms for 3 (transfer 0x1a80880)
- Expire in 200 ms for 4 (transfer 0x1a80880)
- Connected to localhost (::1) port 8080 (#0)
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
User-Agent: curl/7.64.0
Accept: /
It seems there is something working, I don't know really?
I have also tried the following:
pi@octopi:~ $ raspistill -o cam.jpg
mmal: No data received from sensor. Check all connections, including the Sunny one on the camerboard
I also tried: http://192.168.178.95:8080/?action=stream
Nothing came back in the picture.
I am beginning to expect that my brand new camera is not working and I should get a new one.
Is there any visual way I can see this on the camera ?
Not sure though what this could be, anybody got an idea to assist ?
Hi, thanks for reply
Checklist answers:
Is the CSI cable inserted the right way ? Yes, the blue part if the ribbon cable is facing the Ethernet connector, silver line parts going to the back facing the HDMI/power connector.
Is the CSI cable fully seated ? Yes, checked it several times, on both sides.
I did not put into the Display connector, I indeed inserted it in the connector right behind the Ethernet connector.
I inserted the CSI cable in the slot with the blue side facing away from the printboard and the silver lines to the camera lens.
I activated indeed the camera as shown in the linked page.
I have now reinstalled OctiPi again on a SD card through Etcher with Octi V0.17 image of 2.8GB
Is this boot section supposed to be so small ? I get boot section of about 250MB, not sure if there is anymore data written on the SD card ? I got no errors with Validation in Etcher. Probably should be good.
I tried it again following that link, last thing on that page I tried also, got back:
pi@octopi:~ $ sudo raspistill -o myimg.jpg
[sudo] password for pi:
Camera control callback cmd=0x4f525245mmal: No data received from sensor. Check all connections, including the Sunny one on the camera board
I have a feeling this camera is dead on arrival. I am not sure, could be something else ?
Ok, it just got weirder..I found an old Logitech webcam and connected it to the PI through USB..guess what? It worked...
I have been pulling my hair all day not getting it to work and now a old webcam works right away.
Sigh...I want this Pi cam to work.
Maybe it's a power issue.
Try it without any usb devices connected
On my new Raspberry Pi V4+ with the latest OctoPi Image (installed everything today) and a Pi Cam V2.1 the camera works out of the box. I just had to do some adjustments to the camera solution in the octopi.txt file
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The OPI default camera is set to 16/1, the Picam uses 4/3 ratio.
It is in OPi as a camera setting, click on the wrench, look for camera settings.