Hi - been around computers for years but very new to raspberry pi and linux.
Help please - going in circles.
I have mounted the public folder on a wired network Windows PC as PiPics The folder has read/write access.
On the Pi I can browse the contents of the PC folder by cd /mmt/PiPics and see the contents ok.
Nano can write a text file to the windows folder with no problem.
I can't get raspistill to save to it.
Using raspistill -o //mnt/PiPics/test.jpg
or raspistill -o /mnt/PiPics/test.jpg from the root
or if I change to the mmt/PiPics directory and use the same or
raspistill -o test.jpg I get the same error
The error generated is;
mmal: main: error opening output file: test.jpg
Very odd as Nano saves to the drive and raspistill works great on the Pi.
I must be missing something very obvious.
Re: issue with raspistill (&vid) saving to mounted network d
two lines in a shell script
capture the image with raspistill locally
then copy the image to your mounted device
capture the image with raspistill locally
then copy the image to your mounted device
Re: issue with raspistill (&vid) saving to mounted network d
Thanks for the prompt reply.
I could do as you suggest but I don't understand why raspistill can't save directly to the drive as other apps can.
I could do as you suggest but I don't understand why raspistill can't save directly to the drive as other apps can.
Re: issue with raspistill (&vid) saving to mounted network d
maybe it´s because accessing the user-space filesystem SMB is not implemented within raspistill.
At least I can tell:
I have an sshfs filesystem mounted on my pi. And I just tried it with raspistill.
Works flawless
At least I can tell:
I have an sshfs filesystem mounted on my pi. And I just tried it with raspistill.
Works flawless
Re: issue with raspistill (&vid) saving to mounted network d
problem solved .... !
I thought I was at the root but wasn't.
sudo raspistill -o /mnt/PiPics/Testpic.jpg
works fine and saves the image directly to the mapped drive on the networked PC.

I thought I was at the root but wasn't.
sudo raspistill -o /mnt/PiPics/Testpic.jpg
works fine and saves the image directly to the mapped drive on the networked PC.