Unable to open Video Camera #2548

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opened 2026-02-28 01:14:25 -05:00 by deekerman · 1 comment

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Originally created by @martbrad11 on GitHub (Jun 30, 2024).

Pi4B Bullseye
Arducam 'Night Day' (OV5647)
I can capture jpg with libcamera-jpeg and I can stream raw h264 to a VLC player so I know my camera is connected and working.
However when I try to add it in MotionEye I get this in the logs vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open
I'm trying to add it as a Local V4L2 camera. If I try as MMAL I just get 'An error has occured try refreshing@
Can someone point me in the direction to get my camera working in MotionEye?

Originally created by @martbrad11 on GitHub (Jun 30, 2024). Pi4B Bullseye Arducam 'Night Day' (OV5647) I can capture jpg with libcamera-jpeg and I can stream raw h264 to a VLC player so I know my camera is connected and working. However when I try to add it in MotionEye I get this in the logs vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open I'm trying to add it as a Local V4L2 camera. If I try as MMAL I just get 'An error has occured try refreshing@ Can someone point me in the direction to get my camera working in MotionEye?

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@MichaIng commented on GitHub (Jun 30, 2024):

motion does not support libcamera. Hence you need to either switch to legacy camera support, and use MMAL driver, or use libcamerify to start motionEye with libcamera=>V4L2 API. See some examples here: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+libcamerify

@MichaIng commented on GitHub (Jun 30, 2024): `motion` does not support libcamera. Hence you need to either switch to legacy camera support, and use MMAL driver, or use `libcamerify` to start motionEye with libcamera=>V4L2 API. See some examples here: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+libcamerify

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