Very magenta picture from NOiR camera when only light source is infrared

[cleveridiot]

I'm looking at a weird situation with my NOiR camera v2. It behaves as it should unless any light source other than my IR flood light is present.

It seems to try to find an exposure but mostly (95%) of the time shows a fully magenta screen, where I can still make out movement but it's completely overblown.



This is my backyard where you can see the leaves of the trees and they will be moving at the correct fps.

When I turn on a secondary non-IR light then it snaps back to a normal view, the IR is helping illuminate my yard just fine. But when I turn off the normal light the camera just keeps cycling some ranges of exposure (I guess) with the magenta image prodominatly in view.

I don't think this is a -awb greyworld issue, as I have tried that and all it seem to do is color the pink hue to a more black and white image. Not making the full magenta image go away.

[DougieLawson]

Run sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo reboot to get the latest stable firmware, bootcode and kernel.

[cleveridiot]

Thanks but already did that, didn't solve it unfortunately

[6by9]

Sticky at the top of the forum - New AWB algorithm - NoIR camera support

[HermannSW]

Sticky at the top of the forum - New AWB algorithm - NoIR camera support

I did point out exactly that two days ago, but my response got deleted ...

[cleveridiot]

I did not delete any posts for sure.

But the sticky post is known, I did do the update, but it didn't solve the issue.

To clarify what happens:

My NOIR image is fine when a normal light source is present, it picks up the infrared illuminated scene plus some yellowish light from a normal source.
When I turn off the normal light source the camera goes into crazy mode and shows this full magenta screen most of the time, it cycles through some exposure levels it seems, one or two frames look good and then bam, this magenta version again. This happens over and over.

When I did the distro update and use the -awb greyworld setting, it simply colors the pink hue to a more back and white version. It does not prevent this magenta overexposure from happening.

But it seems nobody recognises this problem? So I guess my camera might be broken then?

[jamesh]

I did not delete any posts for sure.

But the sticky post is known, I did do the update, but it didn't solve the issue.

To clarify what happens:

My NOIR image is fine when a normal light source is present, it picks up the infrared illuminated scene plus some yellowish light from a normal source.
When I turn off the normal light source the camera goes into crazy mode and shows this full magenta screen most of the time, it cycles through some exposure levels it seems, one or two frames look good and then bam, this magenta version again. This happens over and over.

When I did the distro update and use the -awb greyworld setting, it simply colors the pink hue to a more back and white version. It does not prevent this magenta overexposure from happening.

But it seems nobody recognises this problem? So I guess my camera might be broken then?

This is a known thing - there should be loads of threads around with the fix. You need to set the greyworld AWB mode.

[cleveridiot]

I am going to assume I have done something wrong with the update then, and try to do it again.

Because as it seems nobody is reacting to what I am describing about what the update does and what my experience is, I am left to assume my update didn't work.

[jamesh]

You update will have been fine - but you need to specify the greyworld AWB algorithm when taking pictures.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... p?t=245994

[cleveridiot]

Ohh maybe that's the issue.

I am using raspiVID not the raspiSTILL as described in your sticky post, would that be the issue?

More specific, I'm outputting raspivid to VLC and streaming it in as an rtsp stream

[jamesh]

Ohh maybe that's the issue.

I am using raspiVID not the raspiSTILL as described in your sticky post, would that be the issue?

More specific, I'm outputting raspivid to VLC and streaming it in as an rtsp stream

AWB is the same for vid and stills, so you still need the appropriate runes for greyworld.

[cleveridiot]

Right.. So, what could be the issue when I did all the things (upgrade and use of awb greyworld parameter) and the magenta screen still happens?

Could it be my flood light is too bright? Could it be that I have a wrong color infrared?