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Rydgel

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Registered: 2008-09-04

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High battery usage from camera in idle (camera is not in use)

Hello everyone,

Did anyone noticed a change related to camera since a few days ago?
Powertop is reporting a high usage of it, even tho it's not in use. Switching off the hardware switch fixes the issue, but it was fine a couple of days ago.
A `lsof` is reporting the camera being used by pipewire/wireplumber.
I dowgraded to an older kernel (6.0.5) and the issue is still here, and I also checked if the device was in autosuspend mode and it is.

So it's kinda like the camera is always in use and can't go in suspend mode anymore or something like that.

Rydgel

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From: France

Registered: 2008-09-04

Posts: 166

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Re: High battery usage from camera in idle (camera is not in use)

Seems to be this issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/2669