Enable flash with Picamera

[Theshepherdmatt]

Hi, I can't work out how to enable the flash through GPIO with Picamera. Can anyone point me in the write direction?

[asandford]

Hi, I can't work out how to enable the flash through GPIO with Picamera. Can anyone point me in the write direction?

The Pi camera has no flash only a status LED

[Theshepherdmatt]

Thanks, I worked that one out. But I'm trying to add an external flash?

[6by9]

viewtopic.php?f=43&t=83484

http://picamera.readthedocs.org/en/rele ... the-camera
Minor update needed in there as it says
"wget http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio ... t-blob.dts"
when the official dt-blob.dts has moved to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raspb ... t-blob.dts. Otherwise you won't have the config for Pi3.

[Theshepherdmatt]

Thanks for the links. The bit I'm getting stuck on it the 2 files dts and dtb. One has the information that needs to be edited and the other (blob) file appears to be blank but has a couple of symbols or code on it. When I copy this file to boot does it need to have all the information copied to it? Or do those 2 small bits of code do something? Apologies for my vagueness.
Cheers