raspberry camera on new firmware version

Tinchus

Hello. I have update since some weeks to 3.5.4 version. I ahve a duet3, sbc raspberry 3 b+
I have a raspi camera attached. I really use it from time to time, jsut to check sometime if print is ok from remote. It used to work very well on previous version, on this one I know raspbian has changed to bookworm (I say it like if I really know what it is jajajaj)
To my surprise doing the sudo raspi-config in order to activate the camera no longer exist. Si I dont know if the camera is there or not,
Can somebody point on how to activate de camera please?
Thanks inadvance

droftarts

@Tinchus In RRF 3.5 and later, use the Spyglass camera plugin for cameras connected to the RPi via the CSI connector, and Motion for USB-connected cameras. Unfortunately we currently don't have documentation for Spyglass, but as far as I understand it is straightforward.

Ian

the_K

I've been put a fresh Bookworm DuetPi 32-bit lite image on my Raspberry Pi 3B+ and its the first time ive tried using a Pi cam ( on the CSI connector) but the spyglass plugin only rund for a few secconds.

I'm not sure if the DSF package has what i need to run the camera?

Could anyone point be to a guide that is a little more helpfull than plugins.duet3d. com /plugins/SpyglassWebcamServerPlugin ?

doese hostename in this "[HOSTNAME]:8080 " mean duet3.local?

Tinchus

Sorry for the late update. In my case problem is solved. I used the spyglass plugin. I got it from here: https://plugins.duet3d.com/plugins/SpyglassWebcamServerPlugin.html

The build instructions... never used them. I just downloaded the pluging, intalled through DWC interface, on the general settings I completed the url http://printer2.local:8080/stream (later I noticed theat hostname was automatically replaced by the internal ip number)
And it works perfect.

The raspi image I have is a brand new one, nothing extra installed or removed but userland in order to have some commands to verify the cam that seems to not be installed by default:

sudo apt install cmake
git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland
cd userland
./buildme
sudo cp build/bin/* /bin/
sudo reboot
and then tested camera with raspistill -o image.jpg

I really dont know if userland had any effect on camera installation but since bookworm removed any easy way to activate/deactivate the camera (to the level of knowledge I have at least) I installed userland in order to have some debugging on the camera. With raspistill at least I knew the camera was there and detected and then I just installed the pluging
I hope it helps

stuartofmt

Just a quick note: I am putting some finishing touched to a plugin that supports USB cameras. It should be ready in a few days . I've always found motion can be somewhat heavy in terms of CPU load (its got a lot built into it).
This plugin is fairly minimal: http endpoint, scaling(8 resolutions), rotate (90, 180, 270) and format choices (most will use the default MJPEG).
Its based on an earlier streamer I wrote so it should be pretty robust on day-one.
I'll post details when I'm done.
It won't be for everyone - but I think it has enough for many (and its a plugin )

My test platform is Bookworm and DWC 3.6.0-beta.4

Tinchus

@the_K Im not able to replicate the installation on another printer. The same as you it is happening to me: plugin just runs for 1 second. Looking at the logs I can see an error about a camera module, so I installed:

sudo apt -y install python3-picamera2

With this I can start the plugin and stays active. Still, I cant see the camera on DWC

the_K

I'm going to try different versions of the pi duet when I have time to see if that has any effect.

stuartofmt

@Tinchus said in raspberry camera on new firmware version:

@the_K Im not able to replicate the installation on another printer. The same as you it is happening to me: plugin just runs for 1 second. Looking at the logs I can see an error about a camera module, so I installed:

sudo apt -y install python3-picamera2

With this I can start the plugin and stays active. Still, I cant see the camera on DWC

I’ve always found it useful to prove a streamers settings with a browser before proceeding further. There are just sooo many variables …. Having said that, given a pi camera and the pi libraries - it should more-or-less just work (or at least log sensible errors)

I’ve stopped using pi cameras, so I stopped supporting my old pi streamer. However - you may ( or not ) find something useful in my old notes

https://github.com/stuartofmt/Pi-Notes/tree/master