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  • Re: headless Pi zero + NOIR Picam + Bookworm + motion

    From nev young@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 26 09:50:50 2024
    Resolved.

    I have simply reverted back to Buster using an SD card image I made last
    March.

    Everything works reliably again.

    (as long as I never run apt)!

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    Nev
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    that so many people are unable to understand what I write.

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  • From nev young@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 13 09:30:30 2024
    In summary, I have upgraded to bookworm.

    After much trouble I have finally been able to get images from the NOIR
    camera but I am at a loss as to how to set the AWB to greyworld.
    As a result the images, when lit by IR leds, are very dark blue.

    Does any one here know the magic incantation I need to add to the /etc/motion/motion.config file to get the AWB set to show useable images?

    i.e. the bookworm equivalent of the old buster parameter of: mmalcam_control_params -awb greyworld

    TIA.

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    Nev
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  • From druck@21:1/5 to nev young on Thu Sep 26 21:13:56 2024
    On 26/09/2024 09:50, nev young wrote:
    Resolved.

    I have simply reverted back to Buster using an SD card image I made last March.

    Everything works reliably again.

    (as long as I never run apt)!

    Buster is very old, Bullseye is the predecessor to Bookworm, and is
    still receiving updates.

    ---druck

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  • From nev young@21:1/5 to druck on Fri Sep 27 11:24:13 2024
    On 26/09/2024 21:13, druck wrote:
    On 26/09/2024 09:50, nev young wrote:
    Resolved.

    I have simply reverted back to Buster using an SD card image I made
    last March.

    Everything works reliably again.

    (as long as I never run apt)!

    Buster is very old,
    so am I :-) 71 next month.

    Bullseye is the predecessor to Bookworm, and is
    still receiving updates.
    I was running Bullseye when the wifi started to fail.
    AFAICT there was something about wps being deprecated and replaced with
    nm. But the confs were not converted. Other reasons have also been
    given. I wasn't amused to have to pull 21 SD cards and re-flash them
    especially as quite a few require ladders and a team of 3 guys to do it
    under current H&S rules.

    So I'm sticking with and old, probably unsupported, o/s that just works.

    Reminds me of an old engineering saying.
    "If it's not broke, don't fix it" :-)

    --
    Nev
    It causes me a great deal of regret and remorse
    that so many people are unable to understand what I write.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to nev young on Fri Sep 27 12:18:20 2024
    On 27/09/2024 11:24, nev young wrote:
    On 26/09/2024 21:13, druck wrote:
    On 26/09/2024 09:50, nev young wrote:
    Resolved.

    I have simply reverted back to Buster using an SD card image I made
    last March.

    Everything works reliably again.

    (as long as I never run apt)!

    Buster is very old,
    so am I :-) 71 next month.

    Bullseye is the predecessor to Bookworm, and is
    still receiving updates.
    I was running Bullseye when the wifi started to fail.
    AFAICT there was something about wps being deprecated and replaced with
    nm. But the confs were not converted. Other reasons have also been
    given. I wasn't amused to have to pull 21 SD cards and re-flash them especially as quite a few require ladders and a team of 3 guys to do it
    under current H&S rules.

    So I'm sticking with and old, probably unsupported, o/s that just works.

    Reminds me of an old engineering saying.
    "If it's not broke, don't fix it" :-)


    I have to agree. I have a version of something nasty from the woodshed*
    of expired Linux distros running one Pi Zero...and its simply not
    possible to add any new code to it as its repos are extinct.

    Hence the development on a fresh PI with bookworm...

    *Cold Comfort Farm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZdcsfmpTHg

    Apart from security, the only reason I have to upgrade is to get other
    peoples new applications to run



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