It's libcamera, not libcamera2.Sometime recently, the Raspberry Pi OS team introduced breaking changes to the camera subsystem. While retaining some parts of the older infrastructure under a "legacy" banner, the team standardized on libcamera2 and a set of Python bindings through a library called picamera2.
Not true! Picamera2 can be installed on the Lite image if you choose to add the required dependencies. Picamera2 is perfectly fine running without a GUI on the command line. In addition, our C++ based camera applications (rpicam-apps) also run on the Lite OS without a GUI on the command line.Due to the above, picamera2 is completely unusable in Raspberry Pi OS Lite. Unfortunately, all camera infrastructure depends on this library, even including cutting-edge devices like the Sony AI Camera (see: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-camera/). All of those devices are consequently unusable in Raspberry Pi OS Lite and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
If you really don't want to install the additional dependencies of Picamera2 on a Lite image, feel free to use the native libcamera python bindings.
Not true, see above - and we have been recommending against using the legacy infrastructure for many years.Where does that leave Raspberry Pi OS Lite developers whose projects need a camera? They can only use the "legacy" infrastructure, which will likely be removed in some future version of Raspberry Pi OS.
Soon, Raspberry Pi OS Lite will have no working camera support, which is a doomsday scenario for a lot of computer vision applications.
Statistics: Posted by naushir — Fri Dec 06, 2024 11:55 am