Hi There
We have a new camera issue that is different to anything we have encountered previously and wondered if anyone had any ideas?
We have tried powering the camera down and remotely rebooting the pi all without success.
If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
craig
April 11, 2023, 4:41pm
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I have not seen this problem before and unfortunately cannot think of a solution.
likely unrelated, but I’ve had problems with gvfs in the past.
If it is running, you can try and kill it:
In the past, I needed to uninstall gvfs-backends
to get gphoto2 working properly. However, that was many versions of Raspberry OS ago.
See this post:
Using gphoto2 on a Raspberry Pi to control the RICOH THETA Over a USB Cable
I have gphoto2 working on the Raspberry Pi. This is installable with apt and is easier to use than ptpcam.
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In the example below, I set the shutter chirp to 30% of sound volume and then verify that the setting in correct.
pi@raspberrypi ~/Development/libptp2-1.2.0 $ gphoto2 --set-config=502c=30
pi@raspberrypi ~/Development/libptp2-1.2.0 $ gphoto2 --get-config=502c
Label: PTP Property 0x502c
Type: MENU
Curren…
Are you using the Python bindings for libghoto2?
RICOH THETA Z1 with firmware 1.50.1
craig@cube:~$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-11.1.0ubuntu2-noarch:security-11.1.0ubuntu2-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
craig@cube:~$
craig@cube:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 60
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3258 @ 3.20GHz
craig@cube:~$ gphoto2 --version
gphoto2 2.5.23
This version of gphoto2 is using the following software versi…
Thank you Craig will give it a try
Best wishes
Drew
craig
April 11, 2023, 5:02pm
4
There are several people on this forum using the USB API in long-term use, if you don’t get a solution here, you can also try direct message individual people to see if they’ve had any long-term usage issues.
I’ll also try and look into this.
You’re using a THETA Z1 with the Raspberry Pi 4, right?
Hi Craig
Thank you for your very kind offer
We have 3 cameras running on a very interesting long term project-when completed it will be for 3 months.
Reliability is pretty good overall-until now
Regards
Drew
craig
April 11, 2023, 8:24pm
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Are all three cameras Z1 units? I remember that you were trying the X for a while, right?
Hi Craig
All Z1’s
We found the X a challenge with power (over a very long term)
The issue was intermittent , but just often enough to make us ‘play it safe’ with Z1’s
Regards
Drew