working on a libcamera workarround

[GenerallyClumsy]

I'm trying to get some cameras working that only support libcamera. I thought I'd create a stream with libcamera-vid and add a network camera under motion eye. I've managed to create a network stream that's accessible under vlc. The command I'm using the create the stream is: libcamera-vid -t 0 --width 1920 --height 1080 --inline --listen -o tcp://0.0.0.0:8888

while this stream works fine in vlc it doesn't work in motioneye

FYI this is the URL used to connect to the camera in VLC tcp/h264://192.168.0.228:8888

On another note, the libcamera stream is working incredibly well. No dropped frames and CPU utilisation is low too. PI 3A

EDIT: So motion looks like it can run if it's called using libcamerafy. Is there any way this can be integrated into motioneyes?

[zagrim]

Libcamera support is still "under construction", and that applies to the yet unreleased ME 0.43 with Python3 support. The topic has been discussed here: #2425 (and here: #2683).

As far as I've understood things correctly, there are some workarounds mentioned in #2683, but no complete solution yet. There is a PR (https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/pull/2765) linked to the other issue and it is waiting for testing, with some instructions on how that could be done (but I admit they might not be good instructions in case one is not that tech-savvy).