RESOLVED: Webcam works with Raspberry Pi OS not seen by OctoPrint

Jake1 · May 3, 2022, 6:44pm

Camera model
EMEET HD Webcam eMeet C960

NOTE: This webcam worked with OctoPrint on a Pi 4B running OctoPi install. This new Pi 4B is running Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye.

What is the problem?
This is a new install of OctoPrint on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 2G RAM. The Pi has new install of "bullseye". I used this guide to install OctoPrint:

Everything works great except the webcam doesn't work with OctoPrint, it does however take images from the command line.

octoprint-systeminfo-20220503112631.zip (48.1 KB)

What did you already try to solve it?
Google Searches and searching OctoPrint support forum.

I tried URLs in OctoPrint's Stream URL field. My Octoprint is listening on port 5000. I tried:
http://192.186.86.48/?action=stream
http://192.186.86.48:5000/?action=stream
etc.

Logs (/var/log/webcamd.log, syslog, dmesg, ... no logs, no support)

There is no /var/log/webcamd

dmesg.out.zip (11.7 KB)

syslog.zip (291.2 KB)

Additional information about your setup (OctoPrint version, OctoPi version, ...)
OctoPrint 1.7.3 Python 3.9.2

Charlie_Powell · May 3, 2022, 7:18pm

Did you receive any errors when setting up and installing MJPG streamer and testing it? Did it work when you run the command for that manually?

Jake1 · May 3, 2022, 7:47pm

Thanks Charlie. I had not installed MJPG streamer

I installed it using this guide and all is working now.

Cheers,
Jake

Charlie_Powell · May 3, 2022, 8:19pm

For future reference, or anyone else that comes across this thread - there's a whole section of the install guide titled 'Optional: Webcam' that details all of it.