Motion Active but stream show black screen #1751
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Hello, Im having real issue with Motion running on my Rasberry Pi 4 running Debian Bullseye RPI OS Lite (no desktop environment) and Pi Camera Module v2. I have Motion installed and runngingStatus shows it loaded and is active, when logging onto the web control stream with my IP and Port 8080/81, enabled this in the /etc/motion/motion.conf, my laptops browser loads the interface in the page, but the image for the camera shows as pure black, I tested the camera with Motion disabled and it works and takes picture, 
the Motion.Log shows, [1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Feb 10 22:58:07] v4l2_pixfmt_select: (49) Y14 (14-bit Greyscale) |
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interesting if I add code "netcam_url v4l2:///dev/video0" to the Motion.conf file and restart Motion, the stream then shows the image is a green square. The Motion.log also looks better? 
[1:ml1] [NTC] [VID] [Feb 10 23:41:27] v4l2_pixfmt_select: (49) Y14 (14-bit Greyscale) |
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Maybe Rasberry Pi OS Lite is missing some kernel or dependency that the libcamera or v4l requires to run in Motion? |
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Looking at the log output, it does not look like libcamera is being used for the PI camera. The documentation describes how to start Motion so that the PI camera can be used. i.e. |
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@Mr-Dave , Thank you!!!! That worked, after trying with libcamerify, I had to run it as pi@rpi4:~ $ libcamerify motion but with sudo it works and status shows a couple warnings but I think its ok pi@rpi4:~ $ sudo libcamerify motion |
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Looking at the log output, it does not look like libcamera is being used for the PI camera. The documentation describes how to start Motion so that the PI camera can be used. i.e.
libcamerify motion