# Node-red-contrib-camerapi issue

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [3 May 2020 10:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983 "2020-05-03T10:38:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![leeg77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@leeg77](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/leeg77)\
**Post date:** [3 May 2020 10:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/1 "2020-05-03T10:38:41Z")

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I am playing with the node-red-contrib-camerapi node but I am getting the following error:

 ![2020-05-03-113422_1280x1024_scrot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/b/3/b397e1bacb397faa4baabc3f2ce43d3982ee60cb.png)  
My camera works fine when using my pyhton script and it looks like the node-red-contrib-camerapi is in the .node-red directory

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [3 May 2020 13:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/2 "2020-05-03T13:32:25Z")

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I just verified and get the same error. You should open an issue on the node's [GitHub page](https://github.com/O-Hahn/node-red-contrib-camerapi/issues) but the node hasn't been updated in almost 2 years, so you might want to try a workaround and use an `exec` node to execute raspistill

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [25 May 2020 10:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/3 "2020-05-25T10:07:19Z")

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@leeg77 - what version of Raspbian are you running and did you install the pre-req's? (see [https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-camerapi](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-camerapi))

To let you know, I have gotten it to work using Stretch.

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**Author:** ![leeg77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@leeg77](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/leeg77)\
**Post date:** [26 May 2020 13:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/4 "2020-05-26T13:15:50Z")

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Hi, I haven't had time to look at this again due to other time pressures but I am hoping to in the next few weeks. I am running Buster.

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [26 May 2020 21:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/5 "2020-05-26T21:27:15Z")

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I just fininshed flashing a SD card with Buster (2020-02-13) and I now have the same problem.

I've just opened an issue in githug about this

> <https://github.com/O-Hahn/node-red-contrib-camerapi/issues/27>
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> RPI 3B
> 26 May 17:22:16 - \[info\] Node-RED version: v1.0.6
> 26 May 17:22:16 - \[info\] Node.js version: v12.13.0
> 26 May 17:22:16 - \[info\] Linux...

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2020 11:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/6 "2020-05-28T11:15:15Z")

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This has been fixed in node-red-contrib-camerapi v0.0.39  
You can get it by stoppng Node-RED and running the following

```auto
cd .node-red
npm install node-red-camerapi@0.0.39

```

Big thanks to the author of the node for addressing this so quickly!

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2020 11:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/7 "2020-05-28T11:52:07Z")

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Version 0.0.40 now in the Flows library

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**Author:** ![leeg77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@leeg77](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/leeg77)\
**Post date:** [29 May 2020 11:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/8 "2020-05-29T11:45:48Z")

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Fantastic! I have just managed to get 5 minutes on the raspi and it's working for me, thank to the author for fixing and zenofmud for your persistence

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [12 June 2020 11:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-camerapi-issue/25983/9 "2020-06-12T11:45:48Z")

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