No camera image during initialisation

[fowleyc]

I originally posted this as an issue but I guess the QnA discussion is the best place.

I can flash the eso32cam fine. I avnset the sd card fine. However when i reach the initial setup stage things stop working
properly. The I click next step i get to the camera image/focus page. but i cannot see a camera image. if i click "next step" again i go back to the initial setup page, and the entire thing goes in a bit of a loop and then the website can't be loaded anymore

logfile (1).txt
. i attach a screenshot to show what i mean. i also include the logfile.

this also seems to crash the webserver, as reloading the page results in a "page not found" error.

i have been trying in the evenings to get this working for close to a week, i have tried it on three separate ESP32 cam boards, one had only 2MB RAM but the other two are fine, i thought the issue was the board, but now i am thinking i am simply making a mistake somewhere. hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

i am totally new to this kind of thing, but am confident to try to fix it, but i am at a loss right now.

[SybexX]

How did you proceed exactly? Did you use the webinstaller or flash with the ESP tool, which files did you use for the SD ......
Have you tried the current main, a lot of bugs have been fixed there?
manual-setup remote-setup update

There are many mistakes you can make. Check again whether the connector of your camera is correctly sits, is your power supply sufficient/stable.......

[fowleyc]

Thanks for the the reply. I used the web install whatever was the latest version a few weeks ago, and the matching files for the SD card transferred via wifi. I had an issue that the version didn't match the firmware, so I had to do it again. Power supply was usb port of the laptop. Will try again. And reseat the camera in the connector.

[SybexX]

The webinstaller installs version 15.7.0 (because version 16.0.0 is still RC), so you must also take the SD files from this version.

[fowleyc]

yeah i did that. i initially made the mistake of downloading v16, but this didnt work at all and said so in the serial console

[fowleyc]

i didnt do the OTA update tho, but i am trying that now.

[SybexX]

Since you used the SD files from version 16.0.0 beforehand, you would probably have had to delete the browser cache and the cockies.

[fowleyc]

looks like that was it! i got the camera to take a reference image. will play more tomorrow :)
thanks. in the end i should have loaded the update over the air.