Raspi Zero, Zero W & 4 MotionEye not detecting MMAL Camera

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motionEye Version 0.43.1
Motion Version 4.7.
motionEye Version 0.43.1
Motion Version 4.7.1
I updated 3 Raspi to latest Dietpi OS and now MotionEye does not see the Board connected cameras
motionEye Version 0.43.1
Motion Version 4.7.1
OS Version Linux 6.18.34+rpt-rpi-v8
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MMAL support has been removed with the RPi Linux 6.18 update. You need to use the modern libcamera API, which is toggled in dietpi-config display options > RPi Camera since v10.5.

motion however does not support libcamera yet, so you need to use libcamerify as wrapper to emulate a regular V4L2 interface on top of libcamera:

sudo apt install -y libcamera-v4l2 libcamera-tools
sudo sed -Ei 's|^ExecStart=(.*/meyectl)|ExecStart=/usr/bin/libcamerify \1|' /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart motioneye

Then add the RPi camera as V4L2 camera, the “unicam” from the list.

However, on 32-bit systems, we still face issues (segmentation faults) since latest kernel and libcamera package. Still need to investigate. But on 64-bit above should work fine.

For reference: Upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4 breaks MotionEye cameras · Issue #8168 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub