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
- Open a terminal window on your Raspberry Pi.
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Install packages required from apt:
sudo apt install -y libcap-dev python3-libcamera
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Create a virtual environment (venv)
python3 -m venv --system-site-packages venv
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Start the virtual environment. You will need to do this each time you want to use picamzero.
source venv/bin/activate
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Install picamzero
pip3 install picamzero
Documentation
Full, beginner-friendly documentation is provided at http://raspberrypifoundation.github.io/picamzero.
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