[libcamera-devel] How to use this library
Kieran Bingham
kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com
Fri Mar 26 23:17:18 CET 2021
Hi Jason,
On 26/03/2021 20:55, Jason H wrote:
> So I can't find any good getting started guide on how to use this, and there isn't a
> liubcamera-users email list that I can find. But my own attempts have resulted in frequent crashing.
>
> I am trying to use the libcamera-apps fom RaspberryPi:
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/libcamera-apps
>
> However my efforts have been not successful in adapting their code.
> I don't want any preview - I just want to get images (memory access ok, if it
> is RGB888, BGR888, or I'll also accept file output as well) I don't want a preview,
> window, and I only want/need one frame per second (a sequence of stills). The code
> is already written against another library with a timer to acquire frames.
It sounds like the simple-cam might help you...
https://git.libcamera.org/libcamera/simple-cam.git/tree/simple-cam.cpp
>
> My instant problem is on my pi (with a camera) it does not find any cameras: (cameras().size() == 0)
>
Can you confirm that you are able to capture with the
raspberrypi/libcamera-apps?
> camera_manager_ = std::make_unique<CameraManager>();
> int ret = camera_manager_->start();
> if (ret)
> throw std::runtime_error("camera manager failed to start, code " + std::to_string(-ret));
>
> if (camera_manager_->cameras().size() == 0)
> throw std::runtime_error("no cameras available");
>
> There is stuff in the v4l tree:
> /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-bcm2835-codec-video-index0
> /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-bcm2835-isp-video-index1
> /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-bcm2835-isp-video-index3
> /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-bcm2835-isp-video-index0
> /dev/v4l/by-path/platform-bcm2835-isp-video-index2
Is this all that you have in /dev/v4l/by-path ?
I would expect more ...
>
> I don't know what to do next.
> Help?
My first thoughts would be to verify that you have the Raspberry Pi set
up for use with libcamera.
This is very raspberry-pi specific, but you need to make sure you have
enabled the relevant camera dt-overlay in /boot/config.txt such as:
dtoverlay=imx219
If you have done that, you can enable full logging of the library to
really see what's going on underneath, and report the full traces.
LIBCAMERA_LOG_LEVELS=*:0 cam -l
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Kieran
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