Open andi34 opened 2 years ago
Looks like it's nothing we can solve on Photobooth side. Someone need to fill a bug report for Chromium and/or Raspberry Pi foundation.
Keep the issue open as information. A workaround is mentioned in first Post of the issue.
So, I just conducted some research with the following setup:
- Raspberry Pi 3
- Raspberry Pi Cam v2
- fresh and unmodified installation latest Raspbian (Debian Bullseye-based), just installed all available updates via
apt-get
Here are my findings:
- By default, the new Raspbian distribution comes with
libcamera
as a replacement forraspistill
(libcamera
is incompatible with the wayraspistill
works).- When I started Chromium with a fresh updated installation relying on
libcamera
, Chromium asked for permission to access the camera but I couldn't get video from the camera to be displayed. So I went a more basic approach and tried to uselibcamera-hello
as test preview to see if the camera is detected and works in general. This fails with an error something likefailed to import fd 19
-- same forlibcamera-still -o test.jpeg
. Yet,libcamera-still -o test.jpeg -n
(-n
is for no preview) works. I googled the error but couldn't find any solution which worked to resolve the issue. It seems this is something related to the video driver because it does work without displaying (previewing) the camera image(s).- I switched to legacy camera interface via
sudo raspi-config
and got it working in Chromium instantaneously. Alsoraspistill
works. However,raspistill
and its variants are deprecated. So this does not seem to be a very future-proof way.I can't understand why
libcamera-hello
does not work out-of-the-box with a fresh and clean installation of Raspbian using the original Raspberry Pi Camera v2.Anyways, I you can live with the legacy interface for the camera, you're good to go with Raspbian (Bullseye) and the current version of Chromium.
Describe the bug
Original issue here https://github.com/andreknieriem/photobooth/issues/296
The device preview (Raspberry Camera v2) does not longer work in Chromium on buster based Pi OS.
Steps to reproduce the behavior
Try to take a picture in Chromium with exception in unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure. (preview picture not displayed, only countdown, no asking for permission to access webcam by Chromium).
Expected behavior
A preview from the device cam is displayed. Chromium asks for permission to access webcam.
Photobooth Version
Latest
Browser and browser version
Version: 90.0.4430.212 (Developer Build)
Operating System
Pi OS based on Debian Buster
Did it work before?
Yes
Latest working version
Chromium 88
Additional context
Workaround Using pi apps to downgrade chromium. Take a look at these links below:
Downgrade to Chromium v88 to get asked again for camera access.
Bullseye. For bullseye, legacy camera Interface should be enabled.
raspistll
will also be used again for taking pictures.