Using camera fails

Troubleshooting
1

Hi,

for a couple of months my camera on the raspi was working properly. But since a couple of days I am seeing this error when using raspistill

root@schuppi:~# raspistill -v
mmalipc: mmal_vc_init_fd: could not open vchiq service
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to initialise mmal ipc for 'vc.camera_info' (7:EIO)
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.camera_info' (7)
mmal: Failed to create camera_info component

I already applied the following commands:

Usermod -a G video olaf

and

Chmod 666 /dev/vchiq

Unfortunately the error is still there :frowning:

Any idea?

Regards,
Olaf

2

Hi,

Could be a camera failure, happened to me once. Power off and re-check ribbon + sunny connections are flush.

Failing that, just double check GPU memory split is 128MB (dietpi-config > display options)

3

Hi,

a reboot and checking all wires solved that issue… strange…

Best regards,
Olaf