Closed kbingham closed 3 years ago
It seems the Camera itself is not faulty, and when the Pi 7" touch screen is disconnected, then the camera will work again.
My initial suspicion is that the unicam driver is not propagating the stream-on failure up ?
And the solution to the camera and display working at the same time is to add the following to /boot/config.txt: "disable_touchscreen=1"
This prevents the VPU from starting the touchscreen driver.
With an either faulty or incorrectly connected IMX219 (RPi Camera v2) the failure case is not handled well.
When the In the event that the IMX219 can not be communicated with (perhaps loose cable, or faulty camera module) I experienced the following:
Which just hangs, and of course never receives frames.
dmesg shows:
And that failure should have been propogated up to report the failure.
Then pressing ctrl-c on the 'hung' cam capture, adds this to the kernel logs:
My initial suspicion is that the unicam driver is not propagating the stream-on failure up ?