Template: RPI Camera Quick Start
Hardware Connection
To test the Camera, you need to connect a HDMI display or a DIS display for previewing.
The connectors of the DSI interface (display) and the CSI interface (camera) look the same, please take care of it when you connect the camera. The CSI interface is placed between the Audio jack and the HDMI port. the CSI connector of Pi zero is beside the Power interface. If you use Compute Module, please check the actual place of the carrier board.
- Connect ot Pi Zero Series
- Other Raspberry Pi boards
- The metal surface of the flexible cable is toward the HDMI interface, then connect to the CSI interface.
About the model
Photosensitive chip model | Supported Raspberry Pi motherboard model | Supported driver type |
---|---|---|
OV5647 | All Raspberry Pi boards | libcamera / Raspicam |
OV9281 | All Raspberry Pi boards | libcamera |
IMX219 (Raspberry Pi official) | All Raspberry Pi boards | libcamera / Raspicam |
IMX219 (third party) | Raspberry Pi Compute Module | libcamera |
IMX290/ IMX327 | All Raspberry Pi boards | libcamera |
IMX378 | All Raspberry Pi boards | libcamera |
IMX477 (Raspberry Pi official) | All Raspberry Pi boards | libcamera / Raspicam |
IMX477 (third party) | Raspberry Pi Compute Module | libcamera |
IMX519 | All Raspberry Pi boards | libcamera (needs to install driver) |
Enable Camera Interface
If you are using the latest bullseye image, the camera interface has been enabled by default, so you can skip the modification steps.
- Open the Raspberry Pi terminal and use the command to enter the setting interface
sudo raspi-config
- Set up the camera
Select Interface Options -> Camera -> Yes -> Finish -> Yes
- Reboot the Raspberry Pi
Test Camera(Bullseyes OS)
Configure
If you use OV9281, IMX290, IMX378, or non-Raspberry Pi official IMX219 and IMX477 cameras, you need to configure the config.txt file separately.
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
Find "camera-auto-detect=1" and modify it to "camera_auto_detect=0"
At the end of the file, add the following setting statements according to the camera model.
model | set statement |
---|---|
OV9281 | dtoverlay=ov9281 |
IMX290/IMX327 | dtoverlay=imx290,clock-frequency=37125000 |
IMX378 | dtoverlay=imx378 |
IMX219 | dtoverlay=imx219 |
IMX477 | dtoverlay=imx477 |
- Open the Raspberry Pi terminal and enable the camera preview
sudo libcamera-hello -t 0
If you want to close the preview window, you can directly combine the keys Alt-F4, or click x to close. You can also go back to the terminal interface and terminate the program with Ctrl+c.
Test Camera(Buster OS)
Open a terminal and test the camera with the following command:
sudo raspistill -t 0
If you want to close the preview windows, you can use Ctrl-C to stop the appliation.