Re: [Motion-user] raspberry pi libcamera motion bulseye

[tosiara <to...@gm...>]

Can you attach the full motion log with -d 9 when running your Pi camera?


On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 1:10 PM Ed Kapitein <ed...@ka...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tosiara,
>
> The new raspberry pi OS ( bullseye ) uses libcamera and that is very
> different from the old way of using the camera.
>
> The FOV is the Field Of View and in the attached pictures you can see
> that motion is using a small part of the picture,
>
> and i can not get the complete FOV with motion.
>
> It would be nice if someone with knowledge of motion and libcamera,
> could make a (per camera) table of working settings
>
> something like this:
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | raspberry pi camera module V2 NOIR |
> +--------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
> | device |v4l2-ctl |motion.conf |
> +--------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
> | /dev/video0 |set-fmt-video=width=1640,height=1232
> |with=1640,height=1232,input=-1 | | /dev/video14
> |set-fmt-video=width=640,height=480 |with=640,height=480,input=8 |
> +--------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
> I assume that many wildlife camera's are build around motion and will
> start to fail if people upgrade to the new raspberry pi OS Kind regards, Ed
>
> On 11/15/21 11:00 AM, tosiara wrote:
>
> > Maybe it is not motion, bet Raspberry changed something in the new OS
> > image I don't know what is FOV on pi camera and how motion can control
> > it On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 6:32 PM Ed Kapitein via Motion-user
> > <mot...@li...> wrote:
> >> Hi, I own a raspberry pi 3B+ and a camera v2 NOIR and use motion.
> >> After upgrading to bullseye i had and have some difficulties to use
> >> motion. For me it does not work "out of the box" I needed to rename
> >> the existing cameraX-dist.conf to something else then .conf to get
> >> motion working. And when using /dev/video0 the FOV is smaller than it
> >> should be. I assume the documentation needs an update. Motion *is*
> >> working, but i assume that with libcamera there is need of working
> >> examples of config files with the available raspberry pi camera's.
> >> Could someone please add a dedicated section for the raspberry pi and
> >> the well known camera's, so we can continue to use motion with the
> >> new setup? Let me know if i can test anything! Kind regards, Ed
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