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decentropy / SentryTurret

A robot to visually track and target an object. (RaspberryPi2 + RaspiCam + OpenCV + Dlib + servos/driver)
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picam activation #2

Closed sinnfeinn closed 8 years ago

sinnfeinn commented 8 years ago

Hi, First: Thanks for sharing this project. Second: I have a problem with adding the camera as described:

Camera: For using raspicam with opencv, add bcm2835-v4l2 to /etc/modules (more).

I can access the camera via terminal but dont know what to do with this part: add bcm2835-v4l2 to /etc/modules Can you elaborate on this?

Thanks, andi

decentropy commented 8 years ago

I linked some articles I read which helped me on the readme: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=62364 https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=94381

Reviewing those links... it think all I did to load the module in Linux is: $ sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2

You may need to install these packages as well (for the picam) $ sudo apt-get install uv4l uv4l-raspicam

The setup above is simply letting you use the picam with opencv. You can run some simple python opencv script to test that works. (perhaps something like this: https://gist.github.com/tedmiston/6060034 )