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ESP32-CAM Locking up #42

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janetpoague opened this issue Jun 5, 2024 · 9 comments
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ESP32-CAM Locking up #42

janetpoague opened this issue Jun 5, 2024 · 9 comments

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@janetpoague
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First let me start by letting everyone know I am novice with the ESP32-CAM. Purchased 2 from Amazon. Espressif used to install firmware. Been experiencing lock ups. Several times had to reflash the firmware as no service ap started after power cycle. I can't quite put my finger on the specifics to make it die every time using same steps. Seems to be this scenario. Connect to the camera config page. Ping to service ip 192.168.0.1 -t. This is to watch when cam dies. Click start stream which starts the stream. Go back to camera config and click scan wi-fi for example. Camera loses pings. Happens in probably less then 2 min. Sometimes it drops 3 - 6 then reconnects but other times its dead. Rebooting camera by pulling usb cable and reconnecting does not bring it back in all cases. In this situation flashing firmware resurrects it. Over past 10 days probably flashed firmware 10 times. I am currently on 1.0.3. Few screen shots below of settings. Have experienced same with 2 other firmware version. Ideas recommendations?

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@johnyHV
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johnyHV commented Jun 27, 2024

Hello @janetpoague Is this problem still persisting?

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janetpoague commented Jun 29, 2024 via email

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johnyHV commented Jun 30, 2024

@janetpoague Can you try new FW version ? And send me logs from devices ?

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janetpoague commented Jul 2, 2024 via email

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johnyHV commented Aug 22, 2024

Hello @janetpoague . Yes, stream funcionality is too complicated in the FW. The stream is using too many hardware resources, and sometimes the RAM can run out when uploading photos to PrusaConnect while simultaneously sending photos via the stream. Are you still experiencing this issue?

@muesli
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muesli commented Oct 20, 2024

Maybe the uploading to PrusaConnect could be paused while an mjpeg stream is active?

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johnyHV commented Nov 20, 2024

@muesli yes, this is one option how to solved this issue.

@Morcegolas
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Hello, I've this problem but I don't activate streaming. I bought 5 cameras on AliExpress at least one year ago, and had this problem on all of them, thought it was a problem with the cheap cameras and moved on. Yesterday I bought a new camera with WiFi antena from Amazon, exact same problem. I'm using my Mac and Arduino IDE to flash it.
I'm only adding my WiFi name and pass, add the camera token, and change the resolution to 800600 or 1024768 and nothing else.
I cannot understand what I'm missing here :/

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I had the same problem, I just max the trigger interval and problem solved, stream is solid now, no frezee anymore.

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