Camera LED Pi3

[raspigeorge]

I have controlled the camera led light (on/off) in the Rasperry (B+) Pi1 by using gpio5 commands. In the Pi 3 (B+) this does not work. Has something changed in the gpio hardware?

[6by9]

Yes, the overall Pi hardware has changed. It had also changed on all B+, A+, and Pi2's, although that was only to another GPIO (32).
For discussion on controlling the Pi3 camera LED see viewtopic.php?f=43&t=109137&start=100#p989832 and the 4 posts that follow it.

[raspigeorge]

Thank You very much for Your quick and friendly answer. My technical knowledge concerning this issue is quite poor. Working with gpio commands was quite feasible for me, but it doesn't work any more. Is there any easy to implement workaround for controlling the led of the Pi-Cam? As far as I understand the posts referred by You, one must use a virtual driver for controlling the gpio in Pi 3?

[6by9]

You don't say what language you're using or why you're trying to control the LED.
I've just cleaned up the code from the other thread and pushed it to https://github.com/6by9/rpi3-gpiovirtbuf

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git clone https://github.com/6by9/rpi3-gpiovirtbuf.git
cd rpi3-gpiovirtbuf
make

and providing I haven't made any typos, you should get an executable (otherwise you're missing build dependencies - "sudo apt-get install build-essentials" will probably solve most issues)
You can then use "./ rpi3-gpiovirtbuf 134 1" to turn the LED on, and "./ rpi3-gpiovirtbuf 134 0" to turn it off.

The code is simple enough that you should be able to pull out the relevant bits if you're working in C.

edit Due to nitpicking on the other thread, I've amended the app. So the correct command line is now
"./ rpi3-gpiovirtbuf s 134 1" for on, and "./ rpi3-gpiovirtbuf s 134 0" for off.

[bensimmo]

Picamera for python has a command and you can put it in the config.txt boot file if it's just to turn it off.

[6by9]

Picamera for python has a command

Ahem https://github.com/waveform80/picamera/issues/265

and you can put it in the config.txt boot file if it's just to turn it off.

Which is hardly controlling it. I'm assuming the OP wants more than just "disable_camera_led=1"

[bensimmo]

Picamera for python has a command

Ahem https://github.com/waveform80/picamera/issues/265

and you can put it in the config.txt boot file if it's just to turn it off.

Which is hardly controlling it. I'm assuming the OP wants more than just "disable_camera_led=1"

I guess i've not noticed it on my Pi3, well nobody has complained to me anyway.
and I guess the docs need a side note adding ?
http://picamera.readthedocs.io/en/relea ... ng-the-led

I'm not assuming anything about what the OP wants
It is controlling it, if off is what you want.

[raspigeorge]

Thank You very much for Your valuable help!