Running detetctnet with usb camera shuts down TX1

Autonomous Machines Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX1
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Hello,
I have compiled the jetson-inference successfully . but when i run the detectnet-camera in the jetson-inference/build/aarch64/bin directory using USB camera (econ usb cam) it immediately shuts down the machine . Any suggestion how to overcome this situation
to be noted: i did change the default camera as 0 as suggested in the instructions.

Best regards

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Hi,

Did you do this change to enable usb camera?

note: by default, the Jetson’s onboard CSI camera will be used as the video source. If you wish to use a USB webcam instead, change the DEFAULT_CAMERA define at the top of imagenet-camera.cpp to reflect the /dev/video V4L2 device of your USB camera. The model it’s tested with is Logitech C920.

Mentioned in [url]https://github.com/dusty-nv/jetson-inference#running-the-live-camera-recognition-demo[/url]

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I have changed the DEFAULT_CAMERA defined at the top of detectnet-camera,however,the usb camera I used is econ usb cam .

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I am curious, if you use a serial cosole, does anything show up on dmesg or the console at the moment of the shutdown? Also, can you try powering the camera through a powered HUB if the camera is not already independent of the Jetson’s power?

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Hi,

Not all the v4l2 camera connect to ‘/dev/video0’.

For example, my camera is connected to ‘/dev/video1’.
(You can check this via connecting and dis-connecting usb-camera)

So I change it into

#define DEFAULT_CAMERA 1
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hi,linuxdev
I provide the power for usb camera with a powered HUB,tx1 still shut down without any error message.

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This phenomenon only appears when I run the detectnet-camera,if I delete those codes about detecting in detectnet-camera.cpp,it works well.

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Hi,

Just want to confirm that:
The camera works if only capture and display without inferencing?

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yes

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Hi,

We will try to reproduce this on our side.
Do you have another camera could help us give it a try?

And could you share some log information, like ‘/var/log/syslog’?

Thanks

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Hi,

We try to reproduce this issue with three different brands of web cameras. But none of them met this shutdown problem.

It looks like camera-dependent.
Could you share /var/log/syslog and v4l2-ctl device info to us?
Thanks.

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Hello,

I have the same problem with my TX1 and Auvidea J120. I tested with another board and I have the same result: a shutdown only if I use CUDA (with USB camera or not).

I use Jetpack 3.2 but with 3.1 the problem is the same.

The problem only occurs in exhibitions. At my office the only time I had the problem is with a 3A power supply (I consume ~2A in operation).

The logs are empty, no errors.

Do you have an idea of how to solve this problem?

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Please check the usb camera with ‘v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext’ You may see prints such as:

ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT 
Index : 0 
Type : Video Capture 
Pixel Format: 'YUYV' 
Name : YUYV 4:2:2 
Size: Discrete 640x480 
Interval: Discrete 0.033s (30.000 fps) 
Interval: Discrete 0.042s (24.000 fps) 
Interval: Discrete 0.050s (20.000 fps) 
Interval: Discrete 0.067s (15.000 fps) 
Interval: Discrete 0.100s (10.000 fps) 
Interval: Discrete 0.133s (7.500 fps) 
Interval: Discrete 0.200s (5.000 fps)

In this example it can run 640x480p30 YUYV formats. In this case, the launch string should be

v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw, width=(int)640, height=(int)480, format=YUY2 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=RGB ! appsink name=mysink

You can run the launch string via ‘gst-launch-1.0’ to ensure its correctness.