[EdLUG] How to access camera on Raspberry pi 4 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[Matthew Rankine]

I don't have a complete answer but do know that in general you interact
with the Raspberry Pi Camera Module using applications such as raspistill
and raspivid which are contained in the libraspberrypi-bin package (the
recent HQ camera is a different beast however). This package is available
for Ubuntu in a PPA -- despite the raspi2 label, this blog suggests it is
valid for a Pi4 as of this year.
https://harry.plus/blog/ubuntu-and-raspberry-pi-4/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi#Optional_PPAs

In case useful, the source code for libraspberrypi-bin is here:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland

Note that if you are using a 64-bit OS then raspistill may not work at all:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=275372&p=1729089&hilit=raspistill#p1729089

If none of this helps, I've always found the Pi forums helpful
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=131

Matthew

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 17:37, Malcolm Durie BT <
malcolm.durie at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> I am running Ubuntu 20.04 Server with the Desktop installed on an
> overclocked pi 4 and trying to access the pi camera but having no success
> as all of the documentation available seems to refer to Raspberry Pi OS.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions of how to access the camera on the pi in
> Ubuntu?
>
> Regards
>
> Malcolm
>
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