HI3516CV100 + IMX322 ethernet and majestic issues

[Moose-Gaming]

Hi,

so I have just successfully installed OpenIPC on a chinese HI3516CV100 + IMX322. There are two problems that I have sort of found a solution to already but don't know how to make it work on boot.

Firstly, the IP101GR chip connection issues.
To fix this I need to add setenv extras hieth.mdioifu=0 hieth.mdioifd=0 hieth.phyaddru=1 hieth.phyaddrd=2 to U-Boot on startup and then run run bootcmd. After that I could access the camera no problem. The thing is that I need to do this every time the camera boots. I know that there's probably a simple way to make this run automatically, but I'm quite new to this ;).
I found this here.

Secondly, majestic issues.
I don't expect much from this camera - just a simple rtsp stream. However, after booting the stream cannot be accessed. When looking at the majestic logs in the WebUI, I get this:

majestic[761]: Majestic Lite for HiSilicon, version master+67ed493, built on 2025-05-09
majestic[761]: Detected Hisilicon Watchdog
majestic[761]: Watchdog timeout set to 300 seconds
majestic[761]: Set server path: /var/www
majestic[761]: HTTP server started on :::80
majestic[761]: Loading main configuration: /etc/majestic.yaml
majestic[761]: SENSOR=imx323
majestic[761]: matched sensor config: imx323_spi_dc_1080p.ini
majestic[761]: Using /etc/sensors/imx323_spi_dc_1080p.ini sensor configuration file
majestic[761]: App was built with MPP version: Hi3518_MPP_V1.0.B.0.
majestic[761]: Current MPP version: HI_VERSION=Hi3518_MPP_V1.0.B.0 
majestic[761]: sensor imx222
majestic[761]:   dev [1920x1080]@200x20 30fps, RGGB
majestic[761]: trying to load /usr/lib/sensors/libsns_imx222_spi_dc.so
majestic[761]: Free MMZ mem before allocation: 97404KB
majestic[761]: VB configuration:
majestic[761]:   [0]: 3133440 x 10
majestic[761]:   [2]: 608256 x 1
majestic[761]: Free MMZ mem after allocation: 66188KB
majestic[761]: Sensor driver loaded
majestic[761]: -------Sony IMX122 Sensor Initial OK!-------
majestic[761]: h264 1920x1080@20fps 4096kbit 20gop
majestic[761]: Loading IQ profile /etc/sensors/iq/default.ini
majestic[761]:   venc_chn: 0, vpss_grp: 0, vpss_chn: 0
majestic[761]:   venc took 9184KB of MMZ [3037]
majestic[761]: h264 704x576@15fps 1024kbit 15gop
majestic[761]:   venc_chn: 1, vpss_grp: 0, vpss_chn: 1
majestic[761]:   venc took 1808KB of MMZ [594]
majestic[761]: MJPEG 1920x1080@5fps 50q 
majestic[761]:   venc_chn: 2, vpss_grp: 0, vpss_chn: 2
majestic[761]:   mpeg_enc took 2056KB of MMZ [2040]
majestic[761]: HiSilicon SDK started
majestic[761]: Free MMZ mem finally: 44180KB
majestic[761]: RTSP server started on port 554
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: UDP RTSP SETUP done, stream_id=0 from 10.0.0.201:61430
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 0
majestic[761]: Timeout from venc channel 1
majestic[761]: RTSP connection closed.

I can fix this simply by clicking restart majestic. After that everything works and I get this log:

Loading main configuration: /etc/majestic.yaml
majestic[761]: SENSOR=imx323
majestic[761]: matched sensor config: imx323_spi_dc_1080p.ini
majestic[761]: Using /etc/sensors/imx323_spi_dc_1080p.ini sensor configuration file
majestic[761]: App was built with MPP version: Hi3518_MPP_V1.0.B.0.
majestic[761]: Current MPP version: HI_VERSION=Hi3518_MPP_V1.0.B.0 
majestic[761]: sensor imx222
majestic[761]:   dev [1920x1080]@200x20 30fps, RGGB
majestic[761]: trying to load /usr/lib/sensors/libsns_imx222_spi_dc.so
majestic[761]: Free MMZ mem before allocation: 97404KB
majestic[761]: VB configuration:
majestic[761]:   [0]: 3133440 x 10
majestic[761]:   [2]: 608256 x 1
majestic[761]: Free MMZ mem after allocation: 66188KB
majestic[761]: Sensor driver loaded
majestic[761]: -------Sony IMX122 Sensor Initial OK!-------
majestic[761]: Loading IQ profile /etc/sensors/iq/default.ini
majestic[761]: h264 1920x1080@30fps 4096kbit 30gop
majestic[761]:   venc_chn: 0, vpss_grp: 0, vpss_chn: 0
majestic[761]:   venc took 9184KB of MMZ [3037]
majestic[761]: h264 704x576@15fps 1024kbit 15gop
majestic[761]:   venc_chn: 1, vpss_grp: 0, vpss_chn: 1
majestic[761]:   venc took 1808KB of MMZ [594]
majestic[761]: MJPEG 1920x1080@5fps 50q 
majestic[761]:   venc_chn: 2, vpss_grp: 0, vpss_chn: 2
majestic[761]:   mpeg_enc took 2056KB of MMZ [2040]
majestic[761]: HiSilicon SDK started
majestic[761]: Free MMZ mem finally: 44180KB
majestic[761]: RTSP server started on port 554
majestic[761]: RTSP chn 0 sps_len 21
majestic[761]: RTSP chn 0 pps_len 3
majestic[761]: RTSP chn 0 profile_level_id 002a95
majestic[761]: UDP RTSP SETUP done, stream_id=0 from 10.0.0.201:61646

and all the streams work! This is also a matter of automating on boot. I suspect the issue is that majestic is getting initialized to early at boot.

Some technical info from the status page:

Device Status
Hardware Processor: hi3516cv100
Family: hi3516cv100
Sensor: imx323 (this is what is detected by OpenIPC - the actual sensor is the IMX322)
Flash: 16 MB
Firmware Version: 2.5.05.16-lite
Build: master+134387d, 2025-05-16
Majestic: master+67ed493, 2025-05-09
U-Boot: U-Boot 2010.06 (Nov 14 2022 - 19:25:49)

Filesystem  Type  Size  Used  Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root          squashfs      4.6M  4.6M       0  100%  /rom 
devtmpfs             devtmpfs       13.9M         0     13.9M   0% /dev
/dev/mtdblock4       jffs2           2.7M    220.0K      2.5M   8% /overlay
overlayfs            overlayfs       2.7M    220.0K      2.5M   8% /
tmpfs                tmpfs          14.0M         0     14.0M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                tmpfs          14.0M     24.0K     14.0M   0% /tmp
tmpfs                tmpfs          14.0M     32.0K     14.0M   0% /run

total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          28.0M       12.7M        2.0M           0       13.3M           0
-/+ buffers/cache:        12.7M       15.3M
Swap:             0           0           0

So those are the issues I'm facing. I'd also like to quickly say how cool this project is - I guess through more optimized code I could go from ~21fps on stock firmware to a smooth 30fps on OpenIPC! Not to mention the security benefits...

Thanks in advance

[Moose-Gaming]

After a couple of weeks, I found an answer.

For Ethernet, I just needed to use saveenv after running
setenv extras hieth.mdioifu=0 hieth.mdioifd=0 hieth.phyaddru=1 hieth.phyaddrd=2.
Now the Ethernet works automatically!

The Majestic issue was a bit more difficult, but armed with the power of ChatGPT, I got it working. ;)

The simplest way to fix my issue was to write a custom script that kills all Majestic instances and restarts it after a delay.

To create the script, run vi /root/restart_majestic_delayed.sh and paste this in:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Delaying Majestic restart by 20 seconds..."
sleep 20

echo "Killing Majestic and restarting now..."
killall majestic

sleep 2

/usr/bin/majestic &

To save and exit, press Esc and type :wq.

You can play around with the first sleep command — I got mine down to 3 seconds, and it works fine.

Now make the script executable with:
chmod +x /root/restart_majestic_delayed.sh

To make it run at boot, run vi /etc/rc.local and add the following line before the exit 0 line:
/root/restart_majestic_delayed.sh &

Reboot your camera, and you should be good to go!

I know this is a bit janky, but it gets the job done, and I’m sure as hell not skilled enough to properly fix the issue.