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Running multiple cameras on raspberry

Open brendhow-done3d opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

I need to run multiple cameras simultaneously on raspberry

Message error:

Insufficient buffer memory. Unable to use mmap. Using read instead. Unable to use read.

brendhow-done3d avatar Jan 26 '21 21:01 brendhow-done3d

which two cameras are you using?

prashants1 avatar Feb 19 '21 06:02 prashants1

Im using the camera ELP, i can use up to 6 cameras using a ** USB HUB **, but I have to put an interval of 0.1 seconds between each capture, using it as follows:

fswebcam -r 3264x2448 -S 3 --no-banner --jpeg 95 -d /dev/video0 cam_01.jpeg & sleep 0.1;fswebcam -r 3264x2448 -S 3 --no-banner --jpeg 95 -d /dev/video2 cam_02.jpeg

But even using it that way, but some photos are totally dark, as if they were corrupted.

brendhow-done3d avatar Feb 19 '21 12:02 brendhow-done3d