Camera works with OMV on Raspberry Pi

roy77399 · Mar 29th 2019

OMV on Raspberry Pi seems to lack drivers for the on-board camera port. Can anyone confirm this either way? If true can the drivers be installed?

crashtest · Mar 30th 2019

What are you trying to do?

OMV is designed to be a file server - specifically as a NAS for homes and small businesses. If you're looking for direct support of an R-PI, with an R-PI camera module, perhaps Diet-Pi may be what you're looking for. There are other distro's (Raspbian) that support R-PI camera modules as well.

roy77399 · Mar 30th 2019

i didn't ask for a moral judgement. I asked a simple question and expect a simple answer.

crashtest · Mar 30th 2019

Moral judgement?
Perhaps someone else will chime in with what you're looking for.

tkaiser · Mar 30th 2019

The camera should work. If not most probably you missed the readme.txt at the download location pointing out that the installation will be finished on first boot and needs Internet access for this: https://sourceforge.net/projec…/Raspberry%20Pi%20images/

The 'drivers' needed for camera access are part of ThreadX living on the FAT partition, the interface to access the closed source ThreadX domain are part of the kernel we use and the userland applications like raspivid or raspistill get installed on first boot if I remember correctly.

roy77399 · Mar 30th 2019

"if I remember correctly", famous last words!

RASPIVID and RASPISTILL both exist in the RASPIAN OS (i've used both) but so far have been unable to find either in DEBIAN os (which OMV is built on).

ryecoaaron · Mar 30th 2019

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RASPIVID and RASPISTILL both exist in the RASPIAN OS (i've used both) but so far have been unable to find either in DEBIAN os (which OMV is built on).

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root@raspberrypi:~# apt-get install libraspberrypi-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libraspberrypi-bin is already the newest version (1.20190215-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
root@raspberrypi:~# whereis raspistill
raspistill: /usr/bin/raspistill /opt/vc/bin/raspistill
root@raspberrypi:~# whereis raspivid
raspivid: /usr/bin/raspivid /opt/vc/bin/raspivid
root@raspberrypi:~# whereis raspiyuv
raspiyuv: /usr/bin/raspiyuv /opt/vc/bin/raspiyuv

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tkaiser · Mar 30th 2019

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apt-get install libraspberrypi-bin

This is part of what gets installed on first boot: https://github.com/ThomasKaise…ter/overlay/firstrun#L160

Most probably this here is again just the usual issue of RPi users not able to read and/or understand...

tkaiser · Apr 2nd 2019

@roy77399 since you upvoted @'ryecoaaron''s last post and downvoted mine I guess we're really talking about 'the usual issue of RPi users not able to read and/or understand'.

Back at post #5 above. If you would've followed the readme.txt at the download location you would have both raspivid and raspistill installed and working.

roy77399 · Apr 3rd 2019

i down vote your posts simply because the majority of them have a critical tone. these boards are so full of this type of post, it's difficult for us newbys to find helpful answers.

sorry but that's the truth of it as i see it.

tkaiser · Apr 3rd 2019

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i down vote your posts simply because the majority of them have a critical tone

Great!

But what about being constructive instead? What about your issue? Did you get raspivid and raspistill working?

roy77399 · Apr 3rd 2019

btw, i've read the readme. i see no instructions other than the initial sd card setup.

roy77399 · Apr 3rd 2019

yes, i got it working. i found the clue i needed on another board.

tkaiser · Apr 3rd 2019

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i got it working

Great, so let's close this bizarre thread now.

For the record: OMV on Raspberry Pi allows to use the camera since the OMV image takes care of installing the necessary drivers (both ThreadX and kernel) and also the necessary userspace tools. Everything works out of the box for users able to follow the simple steps outlined at the download location, especially this part

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On first boot the installation will be finished. REMAIN PATIENT PLEASE since
this can take up to 20 minutes with a slow SD card and slow internet
connection (needs internet access to update all packages to latest version).

@ryecoaaron: in case I ever touch the OMV image for the most shitty NAS device under the sun again I will remove the necessity to update all packages on first boot. These unnecessary threads are so annoying...

ryecoaaron · Apr 3rd 2019

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in case I ever touch the OMV image for the most shitty NAS device under the sun again I will remove the necessity to update all packages on first boot. These unnecessary threads are so annoying...

With all the updating, wifi, and docker installation issues on the RPi, I would rather there not be an image. But if you do decide to torture yourself, maybe we should pre-install the docker-ce package as well.

roy77399 · Apr 3rd 2019

just for the record, what i did to get the camera working was to manually install raspi-config and use it to turn on the camera. the camera device(s) didn't exist before I did this!

tkaiser · Apr 3rd 2019

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manually install raspi-config and use it to turn on the camera

All the raspi-config script is doing is adjusting the contents of the ThreadX configuration file /boot/config.txt which needs a reboot for changes taking effect:

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start_x=1
gpu_mem=128

OMV default is gpu_mem=16 for a reason: Since the more RAM you assign to ThreadX the less OMV/Linux has available which can slow down NAS operation. With gpu_mem=128 you loose more than 10% of available RAM to ThreadX (check free output).

BTW: Based on the screen contents you showed here your RPi suffers from underpowering (voltage drops). Have fun with data corruption!

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