{"id":429,"date":"2014-08-03T04:47:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T04:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalchild.info\/?p=429"},"modified":"2014-08-03T04:47:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T04:47:24","slug":"raspberry-pi-failed-open-vchiq-instance-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomadult.local\/raspberry-pi-failed-open-vchiq-instance-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi &#8211; failed to open vchiq instance [Solved]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on my timelapse camera setup with my raspberry pi and when trying to run my python script I got the following error.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n* failed to open vchiq instance\n<\/pre>\n<p>This is a permissions error because I had created a new user that wasn&#8217;t in the video group.<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is make sure that your new user is added to the video group. My username is <strong>timepi<\/strong> so I had to run the following command.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update from Chris&#8217; comment below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><del>usermod -G video timepi<\/del><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nusermod -a -G video timepi\n<\/pre>\n<p>This allows the <strong>timepi<\/strong> user to use\u00a0the video camera device and it should all be working now.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Don&#8217;t forget to log out and log back in for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on my timelapse camera setup with my raspberry pi and when trying to run my python script I got the following error. This is a permissions error because I had created a new user that wasn&#8217;t in the video group. 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