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| ====== Running the Raspberry Pi camera utilities ====== | ====== Running the Raspberry Pi camera utilities ====== | ||
| - | If you have experience with Raspberry Pi's and Raspberry Pi cameras, you're probably familiar with raspivid, raspistill, and raspiraw. As of January 2021, these utilities have been deprecated and replaced with libcamera utilities libcamera-vid, libcamera-still, libcamera-raw and others. | + | If you have experience with Raspberry Pi's and Raspberry Pi cameras, you're probably familiar with ''raspivid'', ''raspistill'', and ''raspiraw''. As of January 2021, these utilities have been deprecated and replaced with libcamera utilities ''libcamera-vid'', ''libcamera-still'', ''libcamera-raw'' and others. |
| ===== What is libcamera? ===== | ===== What is libcamera? ===== | ||
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| sudo systemctl stop vizy-server | sudo systemctl stop vizy-server | ||
| - | This will stop the Vizy server. (To run the server again either reboot, or run ''%%sudo systemctl start vizy-server%%''). You'll also want to [[wiki:connect_monitor_etc|hook Vizy to a monitor]], as most utilities preview the video through the monitor. The libcamera utilities are installed on Vizy and in the shell search path: | + | This will stop the Vizy server. (To run the server again, either reboot or run ''%%sudo systemctl start vizy-server%%''). You'll also want to [[wiki:connect_monitor_etc|hook Vizy to a monitor]], as most utilities preview the video through the monitor. |
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| + | The libcamera utilities are installed on Vizy and in the shell search path: | ||
| * [[https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/accessories/camera.html#libcamera-vid|libcamera-vid]] | * [[https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/accessories/camera.html#libcamera-vid|libcamera-vid]] | ||
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| ==== Running the legacy utilities ==== | ==== Running the legacy utilities ==== | ||
| - | If you want to go back to the legacy utilities, you can change /boot/config.txt by commenting out the line that says ''%%dtoverlay=imx477%%'' and rebooting. You can then run raspivid, raspistill, etc., which are also installed. But when you make this change to config.txt, the Vizy server/software will no longer be able to get camera data and will likely give up and exit. | + | If you want to go back to the legacy utilities, you can change ''/boot/config.txt'' by commenting out the line that says ''%%dtoverlay=imx477%%'' and rebooting. You can then run ''raspivid'', ''raspistill'', etc., which are also installed. However, when you make this change to config.txt, the Vizy server/software will no longer be able to get camera data and will likely give up and exit. |
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