TOF cam work on raspberry Pi 5

tf123

Hello, I just bought TOF cam and it works on my own windows PC, I'm using the code from this https://discuss.luxonis.com/blog/5021-box-measurement-with-ai-and-tof link.

When I run, it will pump depth and IR windows to streaming the video, it looks good.

After that I have to run this on my rasberry pi 5. The python lib environment is same and ip address has been changed. the code is also running good, no error, but the output windows will be one fully blue window and fully black window. NO any streaming output. I asked ChatGPT to give me some image shot, but it also struck when running the code. however, i can detect the ip, camera name, and

MxID: 1944301061CF762E00

Name: OAK-D-SR-POE

IPv4: 169.254.1.222

Thanks for replying.

OskarSonc

Hi @tf123 - to me this looks like an environment / display issue on the Pi, not a camera / pipeline issue, since the same code + device works on Windows. Could you chech which DepthAi you installed etc?
Did you follow our guide for Raspi?
Also are you using PoE switch or Injector for powering or how?

Can you try running some easier examples like cam_test.py

Thanks,
Oskar

tf123

OskarSonc

Hello, I didn't follow the guide for Raspi. Should I download OAKCM4V1164bt.img.xz ?

I', using PoE switch which was shipped with the camera together to me.

Also, I used DepthAi 2 not 3.

I tried to follow this: luxonis/depthai-pythonblob/main/utilities/README.md. but has a lot of issue on the code always give me error .

For example: (venv) paal@raspberrypi:~/depthai-python/utilities $ pyinstaller -w cam_test.py --hidden-import PyQt5.sip

126 INFO: PyInstaller: 6.16.0, contrib hooks: 2025.9

126 INFO: Python: 3.11.9

127 INFO: Platform: Linux-6.12.47+rpt-rpi-2712-aarch64-with-glibc2.41

127 INFO: Python environment: /home/paal/depthai-python/utilities/venv

128 INFO: wrote /home/paal/depthai-python/utilities/cam_test.spec

130 INFO: Module search paths (PYTHONPATH):

['/usr/local/lib/python311.zip',

'/usr/local/lib/python3.11',

'/usr/local/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload',

'/home/paal/depthai-python/utilities/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages',

'/home/paal/depthai-python/utilities']

497 INFO: checking Analysis

497 INFO: Building Analysis because Analysis-00.toc is non existent

497 INFO: Looking for Python shared library...

ERROR: Python was built without a shared library, which is required by PyInstaller. If you built Python from source, rebuild it with the `--enable-shared` option.

(venv) paal@raspberrypi:~/depthai-python/utilities $ python3 cam_test.py

DepthAI version: 3.1.0

DepthAI path: /home/paal/depthai-python/utilities/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/depthai.cpython-311-aarch64-linux-gnu.so

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/home/paal/depthai-python/utilities/cam_test.py", line 253, in <module>

success, device = dai.Device.getDeviceByMxId(args.device)

                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

AttributeError: type object 'depthai.Device' has no attribute 'getDeviceByMxId'. Did you mean: 'getDeviceById'?

I'm using the code from https://discuss.luxonis.com/blog/5021-box-measurement-with-ai-and-tof; It works fine which can capture RGB, depth, IR image. Also, I can calculate the distance, and I think it's great. However, it only works on my windows personal PC but raspi5. I have no idea which method should I follow…….. should I keep trying on pi5? or i have to change to depthAI V3?

Thanks a lot for helping.

OskarSonc

Hi @tf123

tf123 Hello, I didn't follow the guide for Raspi. Should I download OAKCM4V1164bt.img.xz ?

no, that one is for CM4 devices and has depthaiv3...

tf123 DepthAI version: 3.1.0

Here it says that you have depthai v3.1.0. installed on Raspi and the example you are running are for v2, that's why you get those errors...

Just install the right depthai on you Raspi and it should work. I think you can also use this image, though I think that is for raspi4, but I think it should work. Or you can install on your own:

Once you do this check that you have DepthAi v2.3.0 installed...

Thanks,
Oskar