Update to 0.9 not offered

The raspicam is now supported but until we create a flashable image there are a few extra steps that you need to do:

Enable the raspicam in the raspberry pi with:

sudo raspi-config

Add the v4l2-driver

sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2

This should allow you to detect your camera. This won’t be needed when the image itself enables the support.

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The camera works fine standalone, I can run raspistill and get an image. Astroprint is still unable to find the camera even after running modprobe.

v4l2-ctl --overlay=1
Failed to open /dev/video0: No such file or directory

camera works before print starts. after print starts, camera stops working. says “gst-stream-error-quark: Internal data flow error. (1)”

This is likely due to lack of memory and or processing power. Which platform do you run?

raspberry pi 3, pitft and a raspicam

Daniel it has been a couple weeks, Are you saying that the Rasp 3 does not have enough memory and or processing power to run Astroprint and the Pi Camera?

sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2

returns

FATAL: Module bcm2835-v4l2 not found.

What image are you using? The 0.9(2) already loads the driver on startup so attempting to load it again might fail

I am using 0.9(2)
I only tried loading the driver after the camera failed to load from startup.
No matter what I get No Camera Found

raspstill works though

Are you sure the driver is not loaded? can you run

sudo lsmod

to see if you see the driver loaded. The “Not Camera Found” error might be something else.

It works perfectly on v0.10(0) with my Raspberry Pi Camera v2 :slight_smile:
Thanks for your help !

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