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Jco
Jco

Reputation: 3

Raspberry Pi Camera Tutorial Issue

I am working through a short tutorial (see link below) to publish an image stream in ROS Raspberry Pi camera: https://www.theconstructsim.com/publish-image-stream-ros-kinetic-raspberry-pi/.

I have ignored the steps to install Ubuntu mate OS on the raspberry pi as I have already completed this when completing the Turtlebot3 tutorial from Robotis (see link below): https://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/platform/turtlebot3/setup/#setup

I have completed the steps to "Get the LCD screen up and running" with no issues.

I was unsure if I should install the Full ROS Kinetic, as I completed this during the Turtlebot3 tutorials (link above). Am I incorrect in saying this? The Turtlebot tutorial set up both the Remote PC and the Turtlebot robot (including the raspberry pi and the OpenCR setup).

I am running into issues on the "Setting up raspberry pi camera" section.

This is the following code and error I am receiving;

sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi-dev
sudo pip install picamera


start_x=1
gpu_mem=128<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span>

sudo reboot

There are no errors/issues here.

import picamera

Error here

bash: import: command not found

Am I doing something incorrect? I am pretty new to Linux, Ubuntu and robotics in general so I apologise if this is a stupid question or easy fix.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 683

Answers (1)

Johan
Johan

Reputation: 26

You need to run the import command inside a Python script. So you create a file called camera-test.py for example and enter the following lines:

import picamera
camera = picamera.PiCamera()
camera.capture('mytest_image.jpg')
camera.close()

Save this file and run it in your terminal with

python3 camera-test.py

I hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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