Camera board • Re: Camera supported and detected but not working

What to do if your camera is not detected

Make sure you're using an up to date and modern camera stack

You should be running the Bookworm (or later) release, or the Bullseye release with the legacy (Broadcom) camera stack disabled (which is the case by default; you would have to enable it explicitly). The modern camera stack, which has been recommended for several years now, is based on libcamera. Please make sure your software is up to date using "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt full-upgrade".

You can tell if a tutorial is talking about the obsolete camera stack if you see the following:

Command line applications such as: raspistill, raspivid
Use of "vc_gencmd get_camera"

If you must use the legacy stack, then I suspect you have a power issue. If it is one of the modules like https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry ... era-ir-cut with IR LEDs on the side, then you're putting a fair sized load on the 3.3V supply rail that isn't designed to take it. Changing the ribbon cable may well have increased the voltage drop along the length, and now the sensor has insufficient power to work. Try disconnecting one (or both) of the LEDs and see if that solves the issue.

Thank you for your reply, 6by9.
I indeed have the camera model similar to the one you've mentioned, and I tried removing the IR LEDs as you said, but it still didn't work. I also tried updating and upgrading the software, but I had no luck. I am currently using the Buster release since it allowed me to conveniently livestream video using my camera over a local network. It was working fine too, just that it mysteriously stopped working after changing the ribbon cable. I tried using the old ribbon cable again, but it didn't do any good.

If it's an OS problem, is there a way to livestream video on the releases that are based on libcamera? When I first set up my Raspberry Pi, I had installed the Bookwork release, but I was unsuccessful in enabling a live stream, so I switched to Buster.

Statistics: Posted by illumic01 — Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:15 pm

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