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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon gdombiak

Cameras on Apple Watch is empty

Open DeastinY opened this issue 4 years ago • 9 comments

Works fine within the app

DeastinY avatar Mar 12 '20 11:03 DeastinY

Hi @DeastinY, thanks for reporting this. Could you share your watchOS version, iOS version and Apple Watch model? Is there anything else you could provide to reproduce this issue? (e.g. does it work when iPhone is reachable from Apple Watch but not when Apple Watch is directly connected to LTE? Or are you using Wifi when not iPhone is not reachable?) What is the resolution of the camera?

Thanks, Gaston

gdombiak avatar Mar 15 '20 01:03 gdombiak

Apple Wath Series 5: watchOS 6.1.3 iPhone XR: iOS 13.3.1 Camera is an Logitech C920 OctoPi (Version 1.4.0) is on a Raspberry Pi 4 OctoPod Plugin (0.2.4)

I did not find any setup where it works. App in foreground, reachable, connected to wifi. The camera works within the app without issues. Would gladly try any other ideas, thanks for looking into this!

DeastinY avatar Mar 15 '20 08:03 DeastinY

Thanks for sharing all those details. Are you running the camera at 1920 x 1080 pixels? If the answer is yes then I would try reducing the resolution to see if that is the cause so I know what to fix. :)

Thanks, Gaston

gdombiak avatar Mar 15 '20 16:03 gdombiak

it's running at 720p 15fps

DeastinY avatar Mar 16 '20 12:03 DeastinY

That's great to hear! I guess it has to do with picture size and maybe timing out. I do not have a way to reproduce this unless I purchase a 1080p camera. :(

Does it work if you use 720p at a fps greater than 15? My guess is that it will. BTW, were you seeing any lag on the phone at 1080p and a higher 15fps? My guess is that the phone was slowly running behind from what was actually happening on the printer due to so much image processing. Now that OctoPrint supports H264, I want to see how/if we can leverage that rather than mjpeg.

Thanks, Gaston

gdombiak avatar Mar 16 '20 15:03 gdombiak

octoprint support h264 :scream: brb need to check that!

Edit:

Additionally to the somewhat anachronistic MPEG2 format, OctoPrint now also supports to create timelapse recordings in H264. Special thanks to @koenkooi for this!

DeastinY avatar Mar 17 '20 11:03 DeastinY

The h264 support is for encoding timelapes only, for cameras it takes whatever mjpeg-streamer puts out, octoprint itself doesn't do anything to that stream.

koenkooi avatar Mar 17 '20 12:03 koenkooi

thanks @koenkooi for clarifying that.

gdombiak avatar Mar 17 '20 15:03 gdombiak

I have the same problem. At my Iphone X (15.1) is all fine. Camera work fine. At my Apple Watch 7 (8.1) the Camera is not showing. What can i try?

CommanderDer avatar Nov 11 '21 09:11 CommanderDer