Camera not working on Pinephone

[AndyM48]

I am running CoBang on a Pinephone with Arch Linux and Phosh.
Starting CoBang from the command line (SSH) shows:
$ cobang

(main.py:12121): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 08:43:05.970: gst_element_message_full_with_details: assertion GST_IS_ELEMENT (element) failed

(main.py:12121): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: 08:43:05.971: gst_element_message_full_with_details: assertion GST_IS_ELEMENT (element) failed

There is no video and it seems that only one of the cameras has been identified

According to the wiki

The PinePhone has two cameras, OmniVision OV5640 with 5MP (up to 2592 x 1944 pixels) as rear camera and GalaxyCore GC2145 with 2MP (up to 1600 x 1200 pixels) as front camera.

Both cameras work with Megapixel.

[hongquan]

Hi @FDServices

According to MegaPixel author https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/megapixels, this camera is not supported by higher-level library (GStreamer), he has to do low-level stuff to access this camera video stream. Doing like this requires to have a real device. I don't have a real device so I cannot do it. Hopefully the camera is supported by some higher-level libraries someday.

[rafael2k]

Libcamera does support the cameras and gstlibcamera gstreamer source does provide support for them.

[smm9509]

I tried running the flatpak on Mobian on pinephone and I got an error PyList_GET_SIZE: Assertion 'PyList_Check(op)' failed. and no window shows.

[hongquan]

@smm9509 Could you enable debug logging like this:

G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=cobang cobang

and give me the logs?

[hongquan]

@rafael2k Are you still interested in this issue? If yes, can you run CoBang v1.7.1 with G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=cobang so that we can see if GStreamer + libcamera reports something useful?

[rafael2k]

Hi @hongquan ! I'm without time to with the pinephone, but it is here in my table.
: )