64 bit Bookworm and HQ camera fails about indi-allsky

[aaronwmorris]

I am testing on a Pi4, just on bookworm. This appears to be an issue with with bookworm.

[aaronwmorris]

Opened raspberrypi/rpicam-apps#603 . Lets see where that goes.

[aaronwmorris]

I have experienced similar behavior on bookworm, but have not done much testing to see what could be causing the issue. Give me a few days to dig in and see what I can find.

[warwound]

OK, if I can help then please let me know.
Meanwhile I plan to uninstall the Arducam Hawkeye 64mp camera driver and Arducam version of libcamera, revert back to official Pi libcamera and then test again.

[warwound]

Uninstalling the Arducam Hawkeye 64mp camera driver and Arducam version of libcamera appears to be undocumented, I found no way to do so.
So I instead reinstalled 64 bit Bookworm with desktop and fully updated it.
I then installed indi-allsky.

So my setup is now as before except I do not have the Arducam Hawkeye 64mp camera driver and Arducam version of libcamera installed.
The result is the same, no image is captured and eventually an error dialog appears:

[quote]
Notification: Camera
Date: 2023-11-20 16:23:28

Camera last ready 600s ago. Camera might be hung. Aborting exposure.
[/quote]

Again I can execute say 'libcamera-still -t 0' via a VNC session and my HQ camera works fine.

[aaronwmorris]

The problem seems to revolve around the --immediate flag. If I remove this flag, an image is captured. The problem is without the --immediate flag, the "viewfinder" mode is activated and two images are captured, one lower resolution first, then the second full resolution image is returned.

[warwound]

I just executed this command three times in a terminal on my Pi 5 desktop:

[code]
libcamera-still --immediate -o my_pic.jpg
[/code]

Each time the preview window appears and then the libcamera command seems to hang.
I needed to kill the libcamera process each time using task manager.

So the preview window should not appear when the --immediate flag is set, but on my Pi 5 (and your's?) it does.

[edit]
I'll add the terminal output from my libcamera-still command:
[quote]
WARNING: v3d support for hw version 71 is neither a complete nor a conformant OpenGL implementation. Testing use only.
Made X/EGL preview window
[0:16:20.929739627] [3188] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:284 libcamera v0.1.0+99-4a23664b
[0:16:20.953327738] [3198] INFO RPI pisp.cpp:652 libpisp version v1.0.0 ce5624ed8726 23-10-2023 (07:41:40)
[0:16:20.976531998] [3198] INFO RPI pisp.cpp:1106 Registered camera /base/axi/pcie@120000/rp1/i2c@88000/imx477@1a to CFE device /dev/media0 and ISP device /dev/media2 using PiSP variant BCM2712_C0
[0:16:20.976938608] [3188] WARN V4L2 v4l2_pixelformat.cpp:336 Unsupported V4L2 pixel format RPBP
Mode selection for 4056:3040:12:P
SRGGB10_CSI2P,1332x990/0 - Score: 10552.2
SRGGB12_CSI2P,2028x1080/0 - Score: 8179.84
SRGGB12_CSI2P,2028x1520/0 - Score: 7096
SRGGB12_CSI2P,4056x3040/0 - Score: 0
Stream configuration adjusted
[0:16:20.978315958] [3188] INFO Camera camera.cpp:1181 configuring streams: (0) 4056x3040-YUV420 (1) 4056x3040-BGGR16_PISP_COMP1
[0:16:20.978477772] [3198] INFO RPI pisp.cpp:1390 Sensor: /base/axi/pcie@120000/rp1/i2c@88000/imx477@1a - Selected sensor format: 4056x3040-SBGGR12_1X12 - Selected CFE format: 4056x3040-PC1B
./hawkeye.sh: line 3: 3188 Killed libcamera-still --immediate -o my_pic.jpg > my_log.txt
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[aaronwmorris]

A fix has been merged for rpicam-apps. After rebuilding libcamera and rpicam-apps from source, I can confirm I am receiving images on bookworm

[warwound]

Great...
How long will it be before the fix is available to me via an 'apt update', any idea?
Can you share your fix or point me to a guide build a fix myself?
Thanks.

[aaronwmorris]

I have been waiting on new libcamera updates for a couple of months for some other fixes as well. I do not know when a new version will be released.

The docs for building libcamera and rpicam-apps is pretty decent.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/camera_software.html#building-libcamera

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/camera_software.html#building-rpicam-apps

[warwound]

Will the instructions of both of those pages - where 'git clone' is used - get the version that contains today's fix?
Or do I need to specify some version in order to get it?

[aaronwmorris]

It should, yes. All of the fixes should be available in HEAD.

I followed those instructions pretty much to the letter.

[warwound]

The instructions are clear and easy to follow and my HQ camera now works.
Anyone else with the same problem can do as I did or wait patiently for the official fix.
Thanks for your help.

[warwound]

I just wanted to add to this issue that capture without 'immediate' is now broken!
I run the simple command:

[code]
libcamera-still -t 0
[/code]

No preview window appears, this is the terminal output:

[quote]
martin@pi5:~ $ libcamera-still -t 0
[0:03:23.137200149] [2315] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:284 libcamera v0.1.0+117-99b177b3
[0:03:23.152331420] [2319] INFO RPI pisp.cpp:653 libpisp version v1.0.1 5652744a74d7 21-11-2023 (18:43:28)
[0:03:23.170270853] [2319] INFO RPI pisp.cpp:1112 Registered camera /base/axi/pcie@120000/rp1/i2c@88000/imx477@1a to CFE device /dev/media2 and ISP device /dev/media0 using PiSP variant BCM2712_C0
Preview window unavailable
Mode selection for 2028:1520:12:P
SRGGB10_CSI2P,1332x990/0 - Score: 3456.22
SRGGB12_CSI2P,2028x1080/0 - Score: 1083.84
SRGGB12_CSI2P,2028x1520/0 - Score: 0
SRGGB12_CSI2P,4056x3040/0 - Score: 887
Stream configuration adjusted
[0:03:23.172669970] [2315] INFO Camera camera.cpp:1183 configuring streams: (0) 2028x1520-YUV420 (1) 2028x1520-BGGR16_PISP_COMP1
[0:03:23.172894844] [2319] INFO RPI pisp.cpp:1396 Sensor: /base/axi/pcie@120000/rp1/i2c@88000/imx477@1a - Selected sensor format: 2028x1520-SBGGR12_1X12 - Selected CFE format: 2028x1520-PC1B
#0 (0.00 fps) exp 32987.00 ag 8.00 dg 1.00
#1 (30.01 fps) exp 32987.00 ag 8.00 dg 1.00
#2 (30.01 fps) exp 32987.00 ag 8.00 dg 1.00
#3 (30.01 fps) exp 32987.00 ag 8.00 dg 1.00
#4 (30.01 fps) exp 32987.00 ag 8.00 dg 1.00
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Those numbered lines #0, #1 etc just continue to appear until I halt the command.
See the line 'Preview window unavailable'?

[aaronwmorris]

This could have something to do with the options you passed to the meson build commands when you built the libcamera projects from source.

[warwound]

This could have something to do with the options you passed to the meson build commands when you built the libcamera projects from source.

Not quite but you pointed me in the right direction...
I had not installed all of the recommended packages on the 'build libcamera and rpicam-apps' page that you linked to.
With all the packages installed, I recompiled both libcamera and rpicam-apps and my preview window now appears.

Thanks again for your help.