Webcamd stopped working

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Camera model Pi HQ

What is the problem? Webcamd isn't streaming

What did you already try to solve it? Restart service, reboot, re-seat camera cable

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

Webcamd.log:

Starting up webcamDaemon...

--- Configuration: ----------------------------
cfg_file:      /boot/octopi.txt
camera:        raspi
usb options:   -r 640x480 -f 10
raspi options: -fps 10 -awb tungsten -sh 50 -ex auto -quality 100 -x 2592 -y 1944 -rot 180
http options:  -w ./www-octopi -n --listen 127.0.0.1

Explicitly USB device:
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Found video devices:
/dev/video0
/dev/video10
/dev/video11
/dev/video12
/dev/video13
/dev/video14
/dev/video15
/dev/video16
/dev/video18
/dev/video19
/dev/video20
/dev/video21
/dev/video22
/dev/video23
/dev/video31
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sudo systemctl status webcamd.service

● webcamd.service - the OctoPi webcam daemon with the user specified config
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/webcamd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (start) since Mon 2023-02-06 09:42:06 GMT; 43s ago
Cntrl PID: 1106 (webcamd)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 3597)
   CGroup: /system.slice/webcamd.service
           ├─1106 /bin/bash /root/bin/webcamd
           └─1117 sleep 120

Feb 06 09:42:06 octopi systemd[1]: Starting the OctoPi webcam daemon with the user specified config...

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

RasPi 4B, latest stable release of octopi/octoprint, fully updated via apt

Camera confirmed to be working via both raspistill and raspivid.

Configuration in octopi.txt:

camera="raspi"
camera_raspi_options="-fps 10 -awb tungsten -sh 50 -ex auto -quality 100 -x 2592 -y 1944 -rot 180"

This was working previously, I've made no change to the camera configuration in the meantime.

http://octopi.local/webcam/?action=stream reports "The webcam server is currently not running"

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System bundle attached
octoprint-systeminfo-20230206093919.zip (177.9 KB)

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This is getting even weirder. I tried octopi 1.0-RC3 and the camera was working again.

...Right up until I edited octopi.txt.

Even with camera_raspi_options commented out it breaks when I specify camera="raspi" but works for camera="auto"

4

Did you choose 32 or 64 bit version of OctoPi 1.0.0? I suspect I know why the 0.18 stopped working for RPi cams after it was fully updated with apt, but I think this should be fixed with 1.0

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I tried both 32 and 64 bit, same problem with missing input_raspicam.so as reported here:

I've come to the same conclusion that something must have broken following an apt update.

Re-flashing with the latest stable has fixed it, so I'm avoiding updates for the time being.

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I oddly enough have the same issue. I might try a complete reflash of octopi.

The odd thing is that mjpg_streamer works fine. But it just doesn't seem to start it at all?

Setting the camera to "auto" makes it work, but it's using the "usb=" options and not the "raspi" options, even though it's a raspi camera.

I guess something switched the raspi camera to work like a USB camera?