RaspBerryPi Camera's not configurable in MotionEye #2687

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opened 2026-02-28 01:17:34 -05:00 by deekerman · 1 comment

deekerman commented

2026-02-28 01:17:34 -05:00

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Originally created by @HansBinBrabant on GitHub (Feb 26, 2026).

Hallo Raspberry Pi- and MotionEye hero's >;-)

To summarize my concerns, discussed below somewhere, I do notice that is anno 2026 difficult or not possible to get the camera's, listed on https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/accessories/camera.html, up and running in MotionEye, following the procedure on https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye.
Searching around in https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues confirms that there are all kind of issues with the camera configuration in the modern RaspBerryPi OS's.

Problem : I have RaspBerryPi's 3B's, from as 2015 and later. When an sd card has to be replaced for whatever reason, I cannot setup a new one. I did get some more. Bougth some Pi cams. Still not working. Some USB webcams do show up immediately.

So I hope it is possible to get this fixed : any RaspBerryPi with a runnig Pi OS (those ones availabe by Raspberry Pi Imager (see https://www.raspberrypi.com/software) should be able to run the mentioned camera's.

Thanks in advance from Hans in the Netherlands !

https://www.linuxzob.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=linux_raspberry:camera
https://www.linuxzob.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=linux_raspberry:software

Originally created by @HansBinBrabant on GitHub (Feb 26, 2026). Hallo Raspberry Pi- and MotionEye hero's >;-) To summarize my concerns, discussed below somewhere, I do notice that is anno 2026 difficult or not possible to get the camera's, listed on https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/accessories/camera.html, up and running in MotionEye, following the procedure on https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye. Searching around in https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues confirms that there are all kind of issues with the camera configuration in the modern RaspBerryPi OS's. Problem : I have RaspBerryPi's 3B's, from as 2015 and later. When an sd card has to be replaced for whatever reason, I cannot setup a new one. I did get some more. Bougth some Pi cams. Still not working. Some USB webcams do show up immediately. So I hope it is possible to get this fixed : any RaspBerryPi with a runnig Pi OS (those ones availabe by Raspberry Pi Imager (see https://www.raspberrypi.com/software) should be able to run the mentioned camera's. Thanks in advance from Hans in the Netherlands ! https://www.linuxzob.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=linux_raspberry:camera https://www.linuxzob.nl/wiki/doku.php?id=linux_raspberry:software

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@Marijn0 commented on GitHub (Feb 27, 2026):

Since Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye, the old proprietary camera stack (MMAL / raspistill / raspivid) was replaced by libcamera. See:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bullseye-camera-system/

You can use libcamerify, which makes the Raspberry Pi camera appear as a V4L2 device that can be added to MotionEye. See this comment for instructions: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues/2683#issuecomment-2207622479

@Marijn0 commented on GitHub (Feb 27, 2026): Since Raspberry Pi OS **Bullseye**, the old proprietary camera stack (MMAL / raspistill / raspivid) was replaced by **libcamera**. See: [https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bullseye-camera-system/](https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bullseye-camera-system/) You can use **libcamerify**, which makes the Raspberry Pi camera appear as a V4L2 device that can be added to MotionEye. See this comment for instructions: [https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues/2683#issuecomment-2207622479](https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues/2683#issuecomment-2207622479)

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