Camera has stopped working

[Atari Boy]

Can anyone help please?

I am new to code and Pi's so please be gentle.

I have a B+ and got it up and running over Christmas, I even managed to take a photo although I can't seem to.

Its running remotely now and I have checked that I have the RPI software up to date and I have checked the ribbon cable is correctly fitted too.

This is the last message I got, it basically goes back to the command prompt after I try and use 'raspistill -o image.jpg'



Help.

[DougieLawson]

That means the camera has done its job and the photo is ready for whatever you want to with it next.

The normal thing with command line programs is they are silent when things work normally and generate lots of error messages when things go wrong.

[Atari Boy]

Okay, thank you, that makes more sense.

So why am I not getting a saved image as the command requests?

[DirkS]

Okay, thank you, that makes more sense.

So why am I not getting a saved image as the command requests?

So there's no 'image.jpg' after raspistill finishes?

Try

raspistill -v -o image.jpg

to get the 'verbose' output. It shows a lot of diagnostic information.

Gr.
Dirk.

[ghans]

The picture won't display until you request it do be displayed.

On the commandline , the philosophy is as follows :

1) YOU tell the computer what to do , because only YOU know
what is best for you. A lot of nasty things can be said about
software which tries to be "helpful" ...
2) Commandline programs shall do only one thing at once so they
can be programmed to that thing very well.

That said , you can simply open the file browser and see the
picture in your home directory


ghans

[Atari Boy]

Okay, fabulous, thank you, I didn't realise about checking the home directory.The part that confused me was that when I took the first image, I got a 'preview' and it ended up on my desktop.

Can anyone recommend a good book to teach me about the basics that I'm struggling with?

Thanks again.

[ghans]

http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/

ghans

[RaTTuS]

the preview will not show up on a remote conection