RPi Cam Control v6.0.37 keeps crashing when recording via motion

[valki2]

I am using a RPI 2 with a RPICam and latest Raspian "Linux raspberrypi 4.1.19-v7+" running on it. RPi Cam Control Version is v6.0.37.

The little raspi runs pretty stable when just using as a webcam (1 week is no problem)... but as soon as I turn on motion to capture some videos - then the system is crashing within some hours.

More details:

• raspian itself remains reachable via SSH
• Apache keeps running
• its even possible to reboot the raspi via RPi Cam Control webinterface
• Image is not visible of course as soon as the problem occurs
• After the reboot, the last recorded video is "stuck"/Broken - seems to be the result of a interrupted writing process

I tried an older version of Raspian, different SD cards and am running out of good ideas now... Any advices are highly appreciated :-)

[roberttidey]

Internal or External motion detection? I now use internal all the time as it is simpler and uses less resource.

The schedule log will have some details in leading up to a crash.

[valki2]

Hi! I was using external and the whole config very "out-of-the-box". I changed now (2016 04 02) to internal and it seems more stable but I need play with it and figure out now new motion values...

Nevertheless the crashes with external motion remain strange - for interested and better skilled folks I allowed myself to put my full schedule log here: http://ul.to/k6mdtz28

Most promising parts are like this: {2016/04/01 22:38:52} Capturing started {2016/04/01 22:38:52} Finished boxing /var/www/media/vi_0304_20160401_223847.mp4 from Box Queue at pos 17 {2016/04/01 22:38:52} Removed item from Box Queue [2016/04/01 22:38:59] Stop capture requested [2016/04/01 22:39:01] Send ca 0 {2016/04/01 22:39:01} Error: Could not send buffers to port, h264 callback [2016/04/01 22:39:03] Start capture requested from Pipe [2016/04/01 22:39:03] Send ca 1 {2016/04/01 22:39:03} Executing macro /var/www/macros/error_hard.sh "Could not send buffers to port, h264 callback" {2016/04/01 22:39:08} RaspiMJPEG Version 5.4.2 {2016/04/01 22:39:08} Error: Could not enable camera {2016/04/01 22:39:08} Executing macro /var/www/macros/error_hard.sh "Could not enable camera" {2016/04/01 22:39:13} RaspiMJPEG Version 5.4.2 {2016/04/01 22:39:13} Error: Could not enable camera {2016/04/01 22:39:13} Executing macro /var/www/macros/error_hard.sh "Could not enable camera" [2016/04/01 22:39:15] Stop capture requested [2016/04/01 22:39:15] Send ca 0 {2016/04/01 22:39:18} RaspiMJPEG Version 5.4.2 {2016/04/01 22:39:18} Error: Could not enable camera {2016/04/01 22:39:18} Executing macro /var/www/macros/error_hard.sh "Could not enable camera" {2016/04/01 22:39:24} RaspiMJPEG Version 5.4.2 {2016/04/01 22:39:24} Error: Could not enable camera {2016/04/01 22:39:24} Executing macro /var/www/macros/error_hard.sh "Could not enable camera"