green tinted images

[Ringostar1982]

Recently i noticed that my Raspi Cam Images are green tinted.

If i change Brightness to 100% in GUI an back to default(50%) it looks all good again, but after a few hours/days the image/video is green tinted again !

Updating to the newest versions did not help. Video Resolution: 1280x1024

Any ideas? Thanks.

My Versions are: Motioneye: 0.35.2 Motion: 4.0.1

[Ringostar1982]

I noticed that it doesnt happen now with a resolution of 1280x720 Motioneye: 0.36.1 Motion: 4.0.1

[degustator]

Could be that its Infra Red mode effect, I have the same when IR LED is working with Raspi NOIR camera

[Ringostar1982]

I have the normal cam not a NOIR camera...

[wb666greene]

Is auto brightness turned on?

I think it defaults to off and I saw this sometime when restarting after "apply". You generally get bogus motion detection as the auto brightness works, but the image quality is generally better.

[Ringostar1982]

No auto brightness is off! If i turn it on i will get ongoing bogus motion detections and that sucks.

With my latest setup and a less Resolution it works:

Resolution of 1280x720 Motioneye: 0.36.1 Motion: 4.0.1

[bobblkabb]

Same here with version 0.38. As soon as I save any setting picture turns 'normal' again.

-- Edit Right now it changed back to normal by itself. Running Motioneye on dietpi system (Raspberry Pi).

[dword1511]

Same problem here. Everything below 1024x768 (4:3) and 1280x720 (16:9) are fine, once above all green and overexposed. Does not seem to be related to either width or height alone.

NOTE: raspistill worked just fine, so it is not a hardware problem.

$ uname -a
Linux pi3 4.14.30-v7+ #1102 SMP Mon Mar 26 16:45:49 BST 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux
$ dpkg --list | grep motion
ii  motion                         4.0-1                            armhf        V4L capture program supporting motion detection
ii  motioneye                      0.38.1-dmo1                      all          web-based frontend for motion

[bobblkabb]

[ghost]

I also gets the same problem... All programs are up to date :(

[bobblkabb]

Once you change anything and press the apply button everything's getting normal again.

[MalFrance]

I had the same problem and found elsewhere adding the following 2 lines to the "extra motion options" did the trick.

mmalcam_control_params -ex night -awb incandescent -co 10 -sa 20 mmalcam_name vc.ril.camera

Apply the changes, wait a few seconds for the camera to re-initialise (or whatever) and works fine (for me). I can't tell you what these line do precisely, but can guess a little.

Mal

[bobblkabb]

What does "name value" mean for the extra motion options?

I insert those two lines but only the first one is kept..

[MalFrance]

Until i rebuilt a camera this weekend with motion 4.1.1 i had no idea. Now i can see it changes the "camera device" setting to the named value. But interestingly not for every device - i have another pi using older versions of raspbian, motion and motioneye and the line is still shown and no change. To be honest, i just used copy and paste...

[sfgabe]

Thanks for this @MalFrance - was having the same problems, though i had better luck getting the green out with setting awb to tungsten

My extra line in thread-1.conf: mmalcam_control_params -ex night -awb tungsten -co 30 -sa 30 -sh 50

[bobblkabb]

Used motioneyeos (v 0.40) for while without problems. Now I'm back to motioneye 0.40 on dietpi and I'm having greenish pictures again. The settings are the same I had on motioneyeOS.

[Ringostar1982]

Thanks for this @MalFrance - was having the same problems, though i had better luck getting the green out with setting awb to tungsten

My extra line in thread-1.conf: mmalcam_control_params -ex night -awb tungsten -co 30 -sa 30 -sh 50

@sfgabe : did this line solved the problem? Where must i insert this line exactly ? thx