Camera board • Re: errors on starting motion

$ libcamerify motion
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load: Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup: Logging to file (/home/paul/motion.log)
[0:53:27.651113919] [1908] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:340 libcamera v0.6.0+rpt20251202
[0:53:28.115924363] [1909] INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:180 Using tuning file /usr/share/libcamera/ipa/rpi/vc4/imx708.json
[0:53:28.166059980] [1909] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:223 Adding camera '/base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx708@1a' for pipeline handler rpi/vc4
[0:53:28.167044972] [1909] INFO RPI vc4.cpp:445 Registered camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx708@1a to Unicam device /dev/media1 and ISP device /dev/media0

$ cat /home/paul/motion.log
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:34] motion_startup: Motion 4.7.0 Started
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:34] motion_startup: Using default log type (ALL)
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:34] motion_startup: Using log type (ALL) log level (NTC)
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Jan 04 13:32:34] webu_start_strm: Starting all camera streams on port 8081
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Jan 04 13:32:34] webu_start_strm: Unable to start stream for camera 0
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Jan 04 13:32:34] webu_start_ctrl: Starting webcontrol on port 8080
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Jan 04 13:32:34] webu_start_ctrl: Unable to start MHD
[0:motion] [NTC] [ENC] [Jan 04 13:32:34] ffmpeg_global_init: ffmpeg libavcodec version 61.19.101 libavformat version 61.7.100
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:34] translate_init: Language: English
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:34] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:34] motion_start_thread: Camera ID: 0 Camera Name: (null) Device: /dev/video0
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:34] main: Waiting for threads to finish, pid: 1479
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:34] motion_init: Camera 0 started: motion detection Enabled
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Jan 04 13:32:34] vid_start: Opening V4L2 device
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Jan 04 13:32:34] v4l2_device_open: Using videodevice /dev/video0 and input -1
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Jan 04 13:32:35] v4l2_device_capability: Not a V4L2 device?
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Jan 04 13:32:35] vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:35] motion_init: Could not fetch initial image from camera
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:35] motion_init: Motion continues using width and height from config file(s)
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:35] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
[1:ml1] [NTC] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:35] image_ring_resize: Resizing pre_capture buffer to 4 items
[1:ml1] [WRN] [ALL] [Jan 04 13:32:40] mlp_retry: Retrying until successful connection with camera
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Jan 04 13:32:40] vid_start: Opening V4L2 device
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Jan 04 13:32:40] v4l2_device_open: Using videodevice /dev/video0 and input -1
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Jan 04 13:32:40] v4l2_device_capability: Not a V4L2 device?
[1:ml1] [ERR] [VID] [Jan 04 13:32:40] vid_start: V4L2 device failed to open

$ rpicam-vid --height 480 --width 640 -t 2000 -o test.h264
[0:13:47.546482326] [1755] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:340 libcamera v0.6.0+rpt20251202
[0:13:47.894706265] [1758] INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:180 Using tuning file /usr/share/libcamera/ipa/rpi/vc4/imx708.json
[0:13:48.084642141] [1758] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:223 Adding camera '/base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx708@1a' for pipeline handler rpi/vc4
[0:13:48.093166090] [1758] INFO RPI vc4.cpp:445 Registered camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx708@1a to Unicam device /dev/media1 and ISP device /dev/media0
[0:13:48.093587088] [1758] INFO RPI pipeline_base.cpp:1111 Using configuration file '/usr/share/libcamera/pipeline/rpi/vc4/rpi_apps.yaml'
Made X/EGL preview window
Mode selection for 640:480:12:P
SRGGB10_CSI2P,1536x864/0 - Score: 1486.67
SRGGB10_CSI2P,2304x1296/0 - Score: 1786.67
SRGGB10_CSI2P,4608x2592/0 - Score: 2686.67
[0:13:51.498892933] [1755] INFO Camera camera.cpp:1215 configuring streams: (0) 640x480-YUV420/SMPTE170M (1) 1536x864-SBGGR10_CSI2P/RAW
[0:13:51.511862856] [1758] INFO RPI vc4.cpp:620 Sensor: /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx708@1a - Selected sensor format: 1536x864-SBGGR10_1X10/RAW - Selected unicam format: 1536x864-pBAA/RAW
Halting: reached timeout of 2000 milliseconds.
paul@camerapi:~ $

$ rpicam-vid -t 0 --libav-format mpegts --inline --listen -o tcp://0.0.0.0:4567
[0:45:40.147819921] [1888] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:340 libcamera v0.6.0+rpt20251202
[0:45:40.831990844] [1891] INFO IPAProxy ipa_proxy.cpp:180 Using tuning file /usr/share/libcamera/ipa/rpi/vc4/imx708.json
[0:45:41.059903820] [1891] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:223 Adding camera '/base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx708@1a' for pipeline handler rpi/vc4
[0:45:41.080416638] [1891] INFO RPI vc4.cpp:445 Registered camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx708@1a to Unicam device /dev/media1 and ISP device /dev/media0
[0:45:41.080804634] [1891] INFO RPI pipeline_base.cpp:1111 Using configuration file '/usr/share/libcamera/pipeline/rpi/vc4/rpi_apps.yaml'
Made X/EGL preview window
Mode selection for 640:480:12:P
SRGGB10_CSI2P,1536x864/0 - Score: 1486.67
SRGGB10_CSI2P,2304x1296/0 - Score: 1786.67
SRGGB10_CSI2P,4608x2592/0 - Score: 2686.67
[0:46:07.019613623] [1888] INFO Camera camera.cpp:1215 configuring streams: (0) 640x480-YUV420/SMPTE170M (1) 1536x864-SBGGR10_CSI2P/RAW
[0:46:07.023240591] [1891] INFO RPI vc4.cpp:620 Sensor: /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx708@1a - Selected sensor format: 1536x864-SBGGR10_1X10/RAW - Selected unicam format: 1536x864-pBAA/RAW
Received signal 13
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what(): failed to send data on socket

$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="13"
VERSION="13 (trixie)"
VERSION_CODENAME=trixie
DEBIAN_VERSION_FULL=13.1
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
$ getconf LONG_BIT
32

Statistics: Posted by pcooper — Mon Jan 05, 2026 11:52 am