Pink image returned by test? about howdy HOT 5 CLOSED

That's a linux driver issue i'm afraid, there's no formal support for IR webcams in linux so we just use generic drivers. You could open a bug report for the affected driver but i don't think that'll help you much.

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The Video4Linux preview also returns a usable image. It seems this camera offers two modes: Motion-JPEG and YUYV raw. Motion-JPEG is the one that works. The mode is not set at the level of this software?

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Could you try replacing line 22 (a white line) in /lib/security/howdy/cli/test.py with the following:

video_capture.read()
print(video_capture.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FOURCC))
video_capture.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FOURCC, 1196444237.0)

And see if that fixes anything or throws any errors? I'm not at my PC right now so it might be a little off.

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I was just a few minutes behind you! I added the following line after initialization of video_capture (in add, test, and compare):
video_capture.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_FOURCC, 1196444237)
and it is now working (after I raised the dark threshold).

Thanks!

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Great! I'll add it as a setting in a later release

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