RPi4 B Camera

1parkerj1

I have installed the latest version of Emteria with a RPi camera connected, via ribbon cable to the board. When I enter the camera app it crashes and when I use any video calling software the camera is not accessed. I submitted a bug report already but I can provide logcat log. Any help?

smieschek

@1parkerj1 Which RPi model and which emteria.OS version? What date did you submit the bugreport?

1parkerj1

Raspberry Pi 4B, Latest version. I think 26/01/24 in the afternoon if that helps

smieschek

hi @1parkerj1
Sorry, I need to ask again about the version, cause latest is somewhat ambiguous. Is it v14.2.0 or what's the latest for you?
The bugreport didn't come through - no bugreport for rpi4 that day. Can you try resending or uploading the logcat?

1parkerj1

sorry, it was v14.2.0. I just resubmitted a bug report after trying it again. Reinstalled v14.2.0 and still having the same problem. (it isn't a hardware problem because the camera works on lineage os)

logcat_output5.txt

smieschek

@1parkerj1
I can see the camera app crashing, but not really why. Can you also provide the "dmesg" log?
Which RPi Camera model is it? - there are at least 4 different and you might need to adjust to the correct overlay.

1parkerj1

@smieschek thanks for getting back! I don't know the exact model but the silkscreen says "Raspberry Pi Camera Rev 1.3" I think I got it on amazon. Anyways, I've tried multiple of the same camera and different ribbon cables.

The dmesg:

dmesg_output.txt

smieschek

@1parkerj1 I think that's an Omnivision 5647 sensor. Take a look into the config.txt on the boot partition. There should be an overlay entry which loads imx219. Change that imx219 to ov5647 and try if it works.

Afterwords you can to it in config-override, but for testing it's okay to change config.txt directly. You just need to be aware that any changes to config.txt are gone after an update.

1parkerj1

changing the overlay in the config file worked, you were very helpful
Thank you :smile:

smieschek

Glad it worked, thanks for the feedback 🙂

Staverous

I have a similar issue but don't see a line in my config file that says what camera it is trying to use. What is the exact text I should add to be able to set the OS to use a specific camera?

Mine only has the following(system version v15.6.0):

add overlay for camera sensor and use firmware with codecs

camera_auto_detect=1
start_x=1