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A library to make it easy for beginners to use the Raspberry Pi camera

Project description

Pi camera zero (picamzero)

picamzero is a Python 3 library designed to allow beginners to control a Raspberry Pi camera with Python.

Installation

  1. Open a terminal window on your Raspberry Pi.

Open a terminal window

  1. Install packages required from apt:

    sudo apt install -y libcap-dev python3-libcamera
    
  2. Create a virtual environment (venv)

    python3 -m venv --system-site-packages venv
    
  3. Start the virtual environment. You will need to do this each time you want to use picamzero.

    source venv/bin/activate
    
  4. Install picamzero

    pip3 install picamzero
    

Documentation

Full, beginner-friendly documentation is provided at http://raspberrypifoundation.github.io/picamzero.

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