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Questions tagged [camera]

Use the Camera tag for any questions related to how to use a camera or webcam with the Raspberry Pi.

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How to change focus on Raspberry Pi camera?

I'm having trouble getting the camera to loosen. I need to change the focus so I can attach an external wide angle lens to remove the blurriness. However, no amount of prodding seems to work. Has anyone done this and how did you do it?
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RPi OCR or how to read a number from the camera

Tried googling first but could not find any interesting hits relevant to what i am looking for. The wild idea is to put a camera in front of an energy meter or watt meter display and read the accumulated total in the display, and process it down to…
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Enable camera without Raspi-config

I would like to enable the raspberry pi camera without using raspi-config, as I need to do this in an automated bash script. Anyone know how? ended up pulling this out of raspi-config #!/bin/bash set_config_var() { lua - "$1" "$2" "$3" <…
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Uncompressed Video recording

Picamera records by default at 1920*1080 resolution (Full HD) and it is very clear. But all the videos are compressed using h264 (MPEG-4) codec. Can I get the uncompressed video recording since the experiment that I'm doing might not work if the…
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Camera Module Turn LED Off

I've made the disable_camera_led=1 change to the sudo nano /boot/config.txt and rebooted my Pi. The issue is the LED has stayed on? How do I turn it off?
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Capture Photos while Streaming

At the moment, i have Pi Camera > Pi > Ethernet Cable > Pi > Display, and using the codes from, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r80dcfzClD4 i am able to stream video from one Pi to another. What i was wondering, how would i need to change these…
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Homebrew Security Camera Network

I've been experimenting with my pi and the camera module designed for it. So far with a single camera things have been great. I started with my own code in python using the 'picamera' interface. Over time I realized that others had done alot of the…
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Camera modules v2.1 - what's new?

There are new versions (v2.1) of both the standard and NoIR camera modules on sale as of this morning (see http://raspi.tv/2016/new-8-megapixel-raspberry-pi-camera-2-1-launches for some brief coverage). The new modules use the Sony IMX219 sensor…
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CCTV housing that fits the Raspberry PI

I'm looking for a CCTV housing that fits the Raspberry PI and the camera board in for under £10 (or very near to £10). It needs to be: waterproof / made waterproof with silicon sealant at least 160mm x 70mm x 30mm (to incorporate the SD card and…
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Is the camera module present?

Is there a way to tell whether the camera module is present without actually trying to record a video or take a photo? I thought maybe i2cdetect would show it up since the camera uses the i2c, but it doesn't show anything on the bus
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mmal_vc_component_enable: failed to enable component: ENOSPC

I know this is a common error, but I can now add another instance to the (rather long) list of people with this issue. The camera module isn't initialising the ENOSPC driver. raspistill -o test.jpg mmal: mmal_vc_component_enable: failed to enable…
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Chicken Coop Egg Monitoring

My kids and I are new to the Pi scene and are looking for some direction. Our project is as follows: We would like to be able to see if any eggs have been laid by our hens in their chicken boxes from our house. We are also curious as to what time of…
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Will a Raspberry Cameramodule v2.1 work with a Raspberry Pi Zero W board?

I am brand new to Raspberry Pi and I today purchased my first board, a Raspberry Pi Zero W. This one: https://www.electrokit.com/en/raspberry-pi-zero-w-board.54741 I also purchased a camera to go with this, the Raspberry Pi Cameramodule v2.1. This…
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Capturing Video in Low light?

I want to capture in low-light and have NoIR picamera. I change the exposure_mode to off and set shutter_speed and iso. import picamera with picamera.PiCamera() as camera: camera.resolution = (1280,960) camera.exposure_mode = 'off' …
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Can the Exposure or Brightness of a Pi-cam be adjusted without interrupting a running process

If I have a running process using the camera (recording, streaming, motion detection or whatever), is it possible to adjust the brightens from a 2nd SSH session or from a different deamon process running in the background? I have tried stuff like…
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