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

[Ed K. <ed...@ka...>]

Hi Tosiara, The motion log file is attached as requested. The only way i 
can get motion to work is to use 640x480 as the width/height. [1] is a 
picture, taken with libcamera-still, that shows the complete FOV [2] is 
a picture from motion, which only has a small FOV. Do you have a 
raspberry pi (3B+) with a V2 camera module? (2B should be good too) If 
you do, you could download the official raspberry pi OS from [3] and use 
a fresh SD card to try the new libcamera setup with motion. [1] 
http://www.kapitein.org/pictures/libcamera-still.jpg [2] 
http://www.kapitein.org/pictures/motion.jpg [3] 
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_armhf/images/raspios_lite_armhf-2021-11-08/2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-armhf-lite.zip 
Kind regards, Ed

On 11/15/21 12:45 PM, tosiara wrote:

> 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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