Terrible camera quality on raspberry pi zero

[chris-hinds]

I have run through these steps in this issue, but still have pretty terrible video quality.

I am running on v0.0.9

This is running on anew PI Zero with the official 1080p camera module.

Originally posted by @hindsc52 in https://github.com/brutella/hkcam/issues/4#issuecomment-508107871

[chrismarquardt]

This doesn't seem to be an issue of the Raspberry or of the software, it looks very much like your camera is out of focus. Does your camera have something in the front that turns on a thread? If yes, turn it while viewing the live stream and see what that does.

[chris-hinds]

This doesn't seem to be an issue of the Raspberry or of the software, it looks very much like your camera is out of focus. Does your camera have something in the front that turns on a thread? If yes, turn it while viewing the live stream and see what that does.

It looks like it dos turn on . thread but it seems very difficult. almost like turning it would break the camera :/

[chris-hinds]

Just ordered a tool from PiHut todo this.

[chris-hinds]

My run file:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/sv/hkcam/run
#!/bin/sh -e
exec 2>&1
v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=rotate=90
v4l2-ctl --set-fmt-video=width=1280,height=720,pixelformat=YU12
v4l2-ctl -c video_bitrate=1000000
exec hkcam --data_dir=/var/lib/hkcam/data --verbose=true

[brutella]

I currently working on a lens adjustment tool which can be 3D-printed #36

[chris-hinds]

Gotta buy a 3d printer now ;) although as this is the only item I need to right now its way.... way cheaper to buy the one for Adafruit for me :)