MotionEye - Unable to Open Video Device after Resolution Change

Troubleshooting
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Hello folks,

Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I hope you can help with this strange issue.

Hardware : Pi Zero W with a wide angle IR camera with 2 IR lights bolted to the side
Software : DietPi, then MotionEye using their automated process.

Issue :
Logged into the MotionEye web interface
Added the MMAL camera
Camera worked perfectly first time
Upped the resolution to 1024x768
The interface hung & I was unable to Putty onto the Pi Zero W
Rebooted the Pi Zero W
Logged back into the MotionEye web interface
Video window was showing a grey screen saying “Unable to open video device”
I tried reducing the resolution back to 640x48 (and even options below) but it still shows the grey screen
Tried rebooting again – still the same

Please tell me how I can revive the connection to the camera.

If I’ve missed out any important info, please let me know.

Thanks muchly.

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as far as I can see you opened an issue Motioneye Github as well https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/issues/2476
This is already the best place as you have the guys developing Motioneye over there.

3

Yes, I posted there to but I thought I’d post here to in case:

  1. They say it’s a DietPi issue
  2. Someone here has seen the problem before

Hope you don’t think this is spamming, just trying to cover the most sensible bases.

4

don’t worry. Our developer is part if the MotionEye project as well :wink:
But good to have it on the MotionEye GitHub.

5

Ha ha, awesome. Clever guy!!

DietPi is the best environment I’ve ever used. So easy to set up and use. Makes the Pi such a useful tool.

This is the first issue I’ve had when using it, and I suspect that it’s something daft which I’ve done that caused the problem!