Error Configuring security camera

[djmgrant]

Kerberos.io not displaying camera output.

Kerberos Log :

• stream = Mjpg
• streams.Mjpg.enabled = true
• streams.Mjpg.fps = 20
• streams.Mjpg.password =
• streams.Mjpg.quality = 75
• streams.Mjpg.streamPort = 8889
• streams.Mjpg.username =
• timezone = Europe-London
  15/11/2020 11:11:15.228 INFO [trivial] Logging is set to info
  15/11/2020 11:11:15.229 INFO [trivial] Capture: Start capture device: RaspiCamera
  15/11/2020 11:11:15.229 ERROR [trivial] Kerberos : Factory : Could not create an instance of message:

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Running Balena v2.61.3 on Raspberry Pi 4 - Camera is Longrunner Raspi Pi4 Model B+ Camera module with switching.
   Installed using Balena etcher
2. On Balena I've set BALENA_HOST_CONFIG_start_x = 1 plus also set GPU Memory settings as suggested in other posts.
3. On the Raspi command line i can see the camera is now working :

vcgencmd get_camera
supported=1 detected=1

3. In Kerberos.io System is running and ive set the config as follows.
   

Here is the content of my config. (this has not been edited)

<instance>
    <name type="text">hall</name>
    <logging type="bool">false</logging>
    <timezone type="timezone">Europe-London</timezone>
    <capture file="capture.xml">RaspiCamera</capture>
    <stream file="stream.xml">Mjpg</stream>
    <condition file="condition.xml" type="multiple">Enabled</condition>
    <algorithm file="algorithm.xml">DifferentialCollins</algorithm>
    <expositor file="expositor.xml">Hull</expositor>
    <heuristic file="heuristic.xml">Sequence</heuristic>
    <io file="io.xml" type="multiple">Video</io>
    <cloud file="cloud.xml">S3</cloud>
</instance>

Here are the capture settings.

<IPCamera>
    <url type="text">rtsp://admin:[email protected]/tcp/av0_1</url>
    <frameWidth type="number">640</frameWidth>
    <frameHeight type="number">480</frameHeight>
    <delay type="number">500</delay>
    <angle type="number">0</angle>
</IPCamera>

<USBCamera>
    <frameWidth type="number">640</frameWidth>
    <frameHeight type="number">480</frameHeight>
    <deviceNumber type="number">0</deviceNumber>
    <fourcc type="text">MJPG</fourcc>
    <delay type="number">500</delay>
    <angle type="number">0</angle>
</USBCamera>

<RaspiCamera>
    <frameWidth type="number">640</frameWidth>
    <frameHeight type="number">480</frameHeight>
    <delay type="number">500</delay>
    <angle type="number">0</angle>
    <framerate type="number">20</framerate>
    <sharpness type="number">0</sharpness>
    <saturation type="number">0</saturation>
    <contrast type="number">0</contrast>
    <brightness type="number">50</brightness>
</RaspiCamera>

<VideoCapture>
    <frameWidth type="number">640</frameWidth>
    <frameHeight type="number">480</frameHeight>
    <path type="text">0</path>
    <delay type="number">500</delay>
    <angle type="number">0</angle>
</VideoCapture>

[djmgrant]

So got this working by selecting IP camera. Not sure why this is specific to Pi4 , Pi3 RPI camera works.

[cedricve]

hey @djmgrant sorry for the late reply, you made it working by enabling IP Camera setting?

[djmgrant]

Yes thats correct. Quite weird really. My friend bought the exact same camera and on raspberry pi 3 his camera worked as an Rpi camera. Not a big deal but took me quite a while to work this out, swapping ribbons and power sources etc etc.