Raspberry Pi Videocore interfaces question - Raspberry Camera [added: picamera port shar]

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi!

Would you please file a PR with what you've found?

That way the uboot-rpi port can be updated and the raspberry pi build
scripts/documentation can also get updated.

Thanks!



-a


On 18 February 2015 at 23:47, Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm at dino.sk> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:04:02 +1100
> Johny Mattsson <johny.mattsson+fbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19 February 2015 at 17:47, Milan Obuch <freebsd-arm at dino.sk> wrote:
>>
>> > ...
>> > raspistill -o test.jpg
>> > mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component
>> > 'vc.ril.camera' (1:ENOMEM) mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could
>> > not create component 'vc.ril.camera' (1) mmal: Failed to create
>> > camera component mmal: main: Failed to create camera component
>> > mmal: Camera is not enabled in this build. Try running "sudo
>> > raspi-config" and ensure that "camera" has been enabled
>> >
>>
>> Put the line
>> start_x=1
>> in your /boot/config.txt, then reboot. That should instruct the GPU
>> firmware to enable the camera.
>>
>> You might also need to ensure you have the start_x.elf/fixup_x.dat
>> files in your /boot; the latest firmware is available here:
>> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot
>>
>> Cheers,
>> /Johny
>
> Yesss! Thank you! It works now! I tested both raspistill from userland
> utilities and simple python script with picamera. Both does produce
> some picture. It needs more testing, some mechanical assembly etc. to
> be usefull, but all that's doable.
>
> Just for fun, maybe someone could use it, I made a port of picamera
> python module - you can find more about it on page I found it.
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/picamera-pure-python-interface-for-camera-module/
>
> Big thanks for everyone's help. It really made my tests much easier and
> less time consumming.
>
> Regards,
> Milan
>
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