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General discussion • Re: PiCamera Version Compatibility

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Will upgrading my picamera to v2 solve this Legacy issue or is v2 already considered Legacy at this current moment in time.
If the question relates to replacing camera hardware then the short answer to this part of your question is no. Purchasing a Raspberry Pi Camera Module V2 or even V3 is not required. The Legacy 'switch' in raspi-config refers to the underlying software that drives the cameras, not to the hardware.

The original but now discontinued Raspberry Pi Camera Module V1 is still fully supported by the latest versions of the Operating System (OS) and by The Picamera2 Library camera software,. The Picamera2 library is a replacement for the legacy Picamera library.

Your Python code is not running because the Python library Picamera is no longer supported by the latest version of the OS.
To 'future-proof' your code it's probably easiest to use a recent OS and write/re-write your code with Picamera2 commands.

(Though if you're tied in some way to the older Picamera software then viewtopic.php?p=2192390#p2192800 suggests a way to still use it).

Statistics: Posted by sandyol — Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:27 am



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