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

[Malcolm Durie BT]

Matthew,

Thanks for these links I will try them to see if I can get the camera working on my pi in Ubuntu. 

Regards

Malcolm

> On 11 Nov 2020, at 18:34, Matthew Rankine <matthew at mrankine.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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