camera almost takes a picture
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 8:25 pm
Hi,
I'm using a pi model B rev. 1. Today I tried to attach the cam and make it work, but it hangs up. Here's what I did and what happens:
I ran sudo apt-get update, then
sudo apt-get upgrade
and rebooted and powered off.
I watched the video on hooking up the camera and peeled the little blue plastic bit off the cam then attached it to the CSI connector and fastened the clamp back down.
I activated the camera module.
I typed in: raspistill -o cam.jpg
the program hangs at that point. After waiting for five minutes or so I gave up and typed ^C.
ls -l shows a file called cam.jpg~ with the size shown as 0 bytes.
I've read the --help file and rerun this test several times to no avail. There's a little red led on the camera board that's illuminated. I'm assuming this indicated power on rather that some error condition. Yes?
Ideas? Tutorials? Will rtfm if pointed to it.
Dave
I'm using a pi model B rev. 1. Today I tried to attach the cam and make it work, but it hangs up. Here's what I did and what happens:
I ran sudo apt-get update, then
sudo apt-get upgrade
and rebooted and powered off.
I watched the video on hooking up the camera and peeled the little blue plastic bit off the cam then attached it to the CSI connector and fastened the clamp back down.
I activated the camera module.
I typed in: raspistill -o cam.jpg
the program hangs at that point. After waiting for five minutes or so I gave up and typed ^C.
ls -l shows a file called cam.jpg~ with the size shown as 0 bytes.
I've read the --help file and rerun this test several times to no avail. There's a little red led on the camera board that's illuminated. I'm assuming this indicated power on rather that some error condition. Yes?
Ideas? Tutorials? Will rtfm if pointed to it.
Dave