Software Setup
At present, we support using libcamera and raspistill to capture images with IMX378 camera, please refer to the following messages:
Modify the confix.txt file
sudo vi /boot/configg.txt
Add dtoverlay=imx378 to the end line
- Using libcamera to access the camera
The Raspberry Pi Bullseye system support using libcamera to capture images. Please make sure you have downloaded the official Bullseye as follows:
Raspberry Pi Bullseye system
List all cameras:
libcamera-still --list-cameras
Open a preview window:
libcamera-still -t 0
Save a jpg file in your pi after 5s preview:
libcamera-still -t 5000 -o test.jpg
For more commands for using libcaemra, please refer to Github-libcamera apps
- Using raspistill to access the camera
The raspberry pi Bullseye system support using raspistill command to capture image too, you need to run the raspi-config to enable legacy, please see the following:
- Run raspi-config
Open your terminal and input sudo rapi-config
sudo raspi-config
2. Move to interface option
3. Enable the legacy
4. Save and reboot
sudo reboot
5. Detect the camera
vcgencmd get_camera
If the camera is detected, the output will be the follows:
6. Run the camera
Preview:
raspistill -t 0
Save a file:
raspistill -t -5000 -o test.jpg
For more usage of raspistill or previous command, please refer to the following messages:
