Low Camera Framerate

[Grea5eMonkey]

I just installed the add-on camera module from FlashForge on my AD5M and getting very low framerate (1-2 FPS). Using the adaptive mjpeg option on Mainsail. Any suggestions on getting a better framerate, or is this just a limitation of processing power on the main board? On port 8080/status it's reporting 1280x720 resolution but I don't see any config files I can modify to try lowering it. Thanks!

[consp]

or is this just a limitation of processing power on the main board

That would be my guess, does it actually support mjpeg in hardware (as in the camera)? Maybe try different encoding options?

1-2fps would be my guess the hardware supports encoding in software 720p. (thought it needed too much memory for it to be sustainable, apperantly it doesnt)

[xblax]

The Mainboard can easily support the full framerate. I don't think that's the issue. I had this problem when the the Wifi connection was very bad. Either high latency or low throughput (leading to high latency).

You can try if the 'UV4L-MJPEG' option works better, but there might be some build-up of delay.

[Grea5eMonkey]

Update to this. I replaced the printer's WiFi antenna with an external antenna from Amazon, hoping to get a little better reception in my garage where the printer lives. Using the UV4L-MJPG option before and after, there's still some delay but it's significantly less. Unless there are other factors I'm not considering and it's just a placebo effect! I did notice a decrease in ping time. ~100-160ms before the new antenna, and now hovering around 60ms with the new antenna. I'll also note that using the Adaptive MJPEG option with framerate displayed it was reporting the same as before, around 2 FPS.