Start SPIFFS before camera module, #214

esp32-cam-webserver.ino

@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ void setup() {
     Serial.println(myVer);
     Serial.print("Base Release: ");
     Serial.println(baseVersion);
+    Serial.println();
 
     // Warn if no PSRAM is detected (typically user error with board selection in the IDE)
     if(!psramFound()){
@@ -511,6 +512,12 @@ void setup() {
         digitalWrite(LED_PIN, LED_ON);
     #endif
 
+    // Start the SPIFFS filesystem before we initialise the camera
+    if (filesystem) {
+        filesystemStart();
+        delay(200); // a short delay to let spi bus settle after SPIFFS init
+    }
+
     // Create camera config structure; and populate with hardware and other defaults 
     camera_config_t config;
     config.ledc_channel = LEDC_CHANNEL_0;
@@ -649,7 +656,6 @@ void setup() {
 
         if (filesystem) {
             delay(200); // a short delay to let spi bus settle after camera init
-            filesystemStart();
             loadPrefs(SPIFFS);
         } else {
             Serial.println("No Internal Filesystem, cannot load or save preferences");

storage.cpp

@@ -185,10 +185,11 @@ void removePrefs(fs::FS &fs) {
 }
 
 void filesystemStart(){
+  Serial.println("Starting internal SPIFFS filesystem");
   while ( !SPIFFS.begin(FORMAT_SPIFFS_IF_FAILED) ) {
     // if we sit in this loop something is wrong; 
     // if no existing spiffs partition exists one should be automagically created.
-    Serial.println("SPIFFS Mount failed, this can happen on first-run initialisation.");
+    Serial.println("SPIFFS Mount failed, this can happen on first-run initialisation");
     Serial.println("If it happens repeatedly check if a SPIFFS partition is present for your board?");
     for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
       flashLED(100); // Show SPIFFS failure
@@ -197,6 +198,5 @@ void filesystemStart(){
     delay(1000);
     Serial.println("Retrying..");
   }
-  Serial.println("Internal filesystem contents");
   listDir(SPIFFS, "/", 0);
 }