Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy) & Bullseye Camera Support

Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy) is a new version of the operating system for users who require the Picamera Python library, the Raspicam apps, or the OMX media player. This video demonstrates camera access in Pi OS (Legacy), as well as the new option to use the legacy camera interface and Raspicam apps in Bullseye.
My previous “Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye Update” video is here: • Raspberry Pi OS Bullse...
My previous video on “Raspberry Pi Time Lapse Photography” is here:
• Raspberry Pi Time Laps...
The news article from Raspberry Pi announcing the developments covered in this videos is here: www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-...
Raspberry Pi OS can be downloaded from: www.raspberrypi.com/software/...
More videos on SBCs and wider computing and related topics can be found at:
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You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: / explainingthefuture
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Bullseye Legacy Camera Support
05:57 Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)
11:37 OS Expectations
#RaspberryPi #Legacy #Picamera #ExplainingComputers

[@lastinline1958]

Thanks for the update, Chris. Funny things going on over there. My solution was to simply use the last version of Raspi OS Buster, which I'll be using until this clusterupgrade is settled.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Pi OS Legacy is now the last version of Pi OS Buster! But I totally get what you mean. :)

[@ronaldmullins8221]

I was thinking of using the former last version of Buster for my camera projects. Seeing that high resolution was messed up that might still be something to consider, not that I need anything above 1080p really

[@NewAgeDIY]

I have a bet of a advantage have a number of Pi’s in my collection of SBC’s. I’m running Bullseye on one of my Pi 4’s and playing with all the features. But on 2 older models I’m running buster. I believe the raspberry pi corp made on of the biggest upgrade mistakes in their history. Now we will have users from different camps all trying to get the best performance out of their boards.

[@ozzymandius666]

@@ExplainingComputers I believe a case can be made for the cost of upgrades being baked into the price for the hardware; the cost of the hundreds of hours of coding all the upgrades being distributed among all the hardware owners in the form of a 10% or what have you increase in the up-front cost. Perhaps a new form of "open-source" will come about in which the ledgers of the companies are made public. I shan't hold my breath, though.

[@ferfromla]

Thank you, Chris, for another informative video. I think you make a salient point about our expectations for free software. Nevertheless, the Raspberry Pi is not free. It is a piece of hardware that comes with software, much like how we buy our computers now. Very few people buy a bare-bones computer these days. So if the hardware is sold with software, it seems that there is a responsibility for the hardware vendor that loads the software to ensure that it works for the essential functions most will use. A camera is one of those. The Pi folks did respond quickly with a fix, but it is far from ideal. The other issue here has to do with expectations. If the vendor labels the OS as an upgrade, then the expectation is that it is improved and better in some way from the previous version. The lesson I suppose is that if your computer is working well, don't upgrade unless absolutely necessary. Breaking your machine is never an upgrade.

[@davidglenn6468]

Mobile phones & their OS’s are another example where this applies.

[@JakobPapirov]

Fully agreed. And windows10 updates, which is probably why MS forces updates (yes yes I'm aware of the security argument).

[@alanthornton3530]

Wishing you a happy Christmas & New year! Thank you for another interesting video and the hard work put in over the years, I'm looking forward to what'll happen in 2022 and beyond :) The interesting thing is that we don't pay a penny for the OS, updates or patches. Making donations to a Linux distro of choice does help the developers to maintain it, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

[@BeOurBee]

Really glad to learn about that resolution limit in the Legacy OS, and the feature give/take between Legacy and the mainline "compatibility mode" options. The whole camera situation is a rare misstep on the part of the OS team. But even with the snafu, the foundation still has the absolute best software support among all the SBC offerings. Hopefully something a little more elegant will slip out of the pipeline soon, but if not, well, it's not the end of the world. Old APIs break all the time and legacy code will have to keep up or fall by the wayside at some point, regardless of how well the transition is/n't handled by the vendor.

[@kelikmasters]

Great video, with excellent explanation of the major differences in Pi OS / Legacy. Just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas! Looking forward to your videos in the new year.

[@Paddy_Roche]

Thank you Chris, I am learning a great deal from your Channel. I cannot thank you enough for the great knowledge you are sharing.

[@lsav1085]

Thanks for all the great information this year!

[@ErikZarth]

Good point about software support. Most of the time you only get one or two kernel updates on an Android phone. I gotta say I was impressed with the support on my QNAP Nas from 2012. 10 years later and still getting software updates.

[@NewAgeDIY]

Happy new year Chris. Great follow up video. Very fast turnaround from Raspberry Pi corp. I’m sure your last video on Bullseye problems had something to do with the quick fix!

[@ExplainingComputers]

A happy new year to you too -- the turnaround as fast indeed . . . :)

[@anthonymccarthy4164]

I make a distinction between running my computer when I need it to be secure and when I don't and when I can do what I want to do with one off line with some stable, simple programs, using old junkers instead of relying on one newer computer makes that possible. I like using Puppy Linux with a read-only optical disc as a live boot when I really need security - though who knows how long that's going to work. It is true that the current model of having enormously complex operating systems maintained for free is probably not sustainable in the long run. Very sensible commentary, one of the things I depend on from you. I hope you have a happy New Year.

[@markanderson2904]

Over the decades things that started out as freeware or shareware have morphed into payware in order to remain sustainable. Like you, I think it's inevitable that operating systems will do the same.

[@wanyman]

Thanks for another great video. I hope you had a happy Christmas!

[@kevinshumaker3753]

As a commercial enterprise, I understand wanting to limit their exposure to a single version of an OS, however, as an educational foundation, unless they want to really toss the whole of all the legacy educational material out the window, I believe they had to come up with this 'patch' to the new Bullseye. Since they 'borrowed' Debian in the first place, most of the argument that they 'create' and 'support' the OS is specious at best. The Debian programmers and groups that create the base ARM-HF and ARM-64 images are the ones doing the 'heavy lifting'. RPiFoundation and RPiCommercial only need to support their shims and patches that fit the software to their hardware. In the future I hope they have learned at least one lesson from this issue.

[@counterspace]

Merry Christmas and a very happy new year. Thanks for all you've done this year and I look forward to what 2022 brings for EC and ExplainingTheFuture.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks -- and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Next weekend we have both an ETF and an EC video. :)

[@techman2471]

@@ExplainingComputers YAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

[@mikiethebikie]

Good comments about operating systems in general.

[@darnell8897]

Chris, fantastic closing remarks at the end. A recent _Computerphile_ video about the Log4J Java vulnerablity also touches on this topic. That nearly every government, educational institution, open source project, and billion dollar company depends on software libraries that 2 guys maintain in their spare time speaks to the sorry state of open source funding and its long term sustainabilty. I don't think that many great solutions that really scale are available yet, but love that the dialogue is being started by folks like yourself Computerphile, Jeff Geerling and hopefully soon many more. Keep up the great work!

[@edsteenhorst6484]

Thank you for this always relevant information. I wish you a belated Merry Christmas and I look forward to absorbing much more information in 2022.

[@exartemarte]

Season's greetings, Christopher, and thank you for the ongoing stream of informative videos. You make a fair point about funding software support, but people will always find ways to rip off proprietary software whereas hardware, by and large, has to be paid for, so funding software from hardware profits seems to me to be a viable option. The profit on a Raspberry Pi may be small but they shift vast quantities and sell everything they can make - try buying a Pi 4 today (Boxing Day 2021), they're like hens' teeth!

[@ahah8797]

Chris, as usual, very helpful video for us who try to keep up. A couple of things about Bullseye... The new windowing system is incompatible with most VNC servers. It appears to work but it's in the details that you notice missing close buttons, icons that disappear when selected and other tortures for the user. Also, most python libraries do not seem to have been updated. Can't get PIL to install, for example.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for this -- very interesting (and worrying) on Python libraries more generally.

[@paulj2383]

Thank you very much for this critical information. I follow your channel and have been very please the time lapse of Growing Cress Seeds, clouds, and ice melting. I would have been lost over this new OS without your help. I fortunately new not to upgrade to the Bullseye OS. Thank you

[@srtcsb]

Thanks for another great video Chris.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks Steve. :)

[@Kw1161]

Chris: Thanks for another great video, with brain filling information....have a Happy New Year...a safe year too!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Happy new year!

[@Ian_Carolan]

Merry Christmas Christopher, I hope Mr Scissors had lots of fun 😁

[@MicrobyteAlan]

Thanks for another informative year. See you next year. 👍

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks my friend -- until 2022 then . . .

[@poppabearskitchen1769]

Excellent job, thank you for your time and effort.

[@DigitalMentorGroup]

Excellent comment about support of Raspberry Pi, and other OS support, Christopher! As only a few Linux distros have paid for support, it’s about time that the developers were compensated.

[@jamesdecross1035]

Really useful explanation. I am only now encountering this problem in 2024.

[@joeldoyle6359]

Christopher, Happy New Year I sincerely hope 2022 is a good year for your business and continued growth for your channel.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks Joel -- and a Happy new year!

[@insanemainstream3633]

Another great video Chris keep it up.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks 👍

[@deanharrysmith718]

Happy new year everyone, great videos as usual Chris

[@ExplainingComputers]

Happy new year! :)

[@deanharrysmith718]

@@ExplainingComputers I think we met once many many years back at an early computer show at Perdiswell Sport Centre. I remember that day as I bought a Voodoo 3dfx video card and I sure you were standing next to me.

[@brick6347]

Missed a chance to make it an unboxing day! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and that 2022 will fulfill your dreams.

[@gelfling6]

Chris, just got the v2.1 camera and latest version (23-02-23) seems like a whole new ballgame. just took its first picture with the libcamera-jpeg command. ouch! new commands to learn (and putting the old v1.2 camera in the box.) thanks for at least including the command for libcamera-jpeg, just a matterof learning the new interface.

[@John.0z]

Thank you for the update Chris. The problem I have had with the HQ camera has been when using a Zero, and controlling it through VNC. There is no image appearing on the remote screen image. The process of taking a photo, and saving it to a file works, but when trying to get the focus sorted that is "inconvenient". As I want to use my camera to take long series for astrophotography (powered by a phone charger battery), I have not yet worked out a satisfactory solution for outside or field focussing.

[@rikprince8414]

Nice one, Sir! Unfortunately, my Pi has sat unused for a good long while. Life getting in the way.

[@DiyEcoProjects]

Hi Chris, Got my first Raspberry Pi 4 B+ Today :) ... fan of your for years, not time to join in lol. Have a great year ahead, all the best Kieron

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings Kieron! :) Enjoy your new Pi -- you have so many things ahead to try with it. Happy experimenting.

[@DiyEcoProjects]

@@ExplainingComputers Hi there. Can i ask you something please? I was just wondering, ive looked at your video of other OS programs to run on the PI but it was made in 2020. Im considering the "Ubuntu-mate" as my first OS, which looks cool. Do you have a favourate in 2022 for PI 4 +B 64 ? What id like is to be able to run crypto "nodes" and earn passive income from it. So id need to able to put windows based programs on it. Do windows progs work on pi's? Also theres ones where you can earn through lending out your spare bandwidth to vpn services, and get rewards that way. It allows me to have up to 10 ip's per my single account, so laptop, mobile, work and others. They dont allow proxies Vpn's. So i was thinking of getting a business internet connection that lets me have 10 static ip's that i can connect to vm's on the PI, and in that way id have 10 connections running down my single home internet cable, just a thought 🙂 Also... Im thinking of creating my own web server so that i can have a backup ssd drive 🙂 and maybe try and create my own crypto token EEEEeee!

[@alexlandherr]

I’m not doing a “sudo apt dist-upgrade” until there’s proper Python support for the cameras. By that I mean a new Python library for Bullseye and Python 3.9.3. Great video as always Chris.

[@raymondlines5404]

Do we have any word on who is working on the python fix and what progress they are making?

[@pottytrained4233]

Merry Christmas Chris and have a great new year and all the best :o)

[@horseradishpower9947]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Chris!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Same to you!

[@ericblenner-hassett3945]

This reminds me of how bad some drivers were between Windows 3.11 and XP for Microsoft mice. The agrivation of hunting down the expanded drivers from the instalation disc and copying prior to the self deleting it would do before trying to actually install the drivers. On the Pi side, I am suprised that the equivalent of drivers for the cameras do not have a way to download/install in the new OS utilising the old name calls ( think Direct X naming convention and draw routines thet MSBasic let us use ) along side the 'new ' call convention. The only way I have coded this kind of thing ( over 10 years ago, so don't try this unless you like a DOS prompt ) was to do it the really old fasioned way and use Make command as well as " Make install " and be verry prepared to restore a complete drive image if it did not work.

[@MrPlutoUSA]

Happy Holidays Chris!

[@OffGridAussiePrepper]

MC and I hope we have a better new year ahead and I wish u wud do 2 vids a week.

[@chrismorgan441]

Interesting video. Hope you had a nice Christmas. Happy New Year, Chris... may 2022 bring us all better times.

[@jamesparker6876]

Merry Christmas EC and viewers. Lots of Love, James

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks James -- and a Merry Christmas to you to! :)

[@RaspberryWhy]

Seasons greetings. Thanks for the interesting video Chris. Best wishes fir the new year

[@ExplainingComputers]

Festive greetings! :)

[@rogerkoh1979]

Merry Christmas and a happy new year. OS are constantly changing. Some device stop working. It is great that a legacy version is released. Thank you for another episode. Looking forward to next year show already.

[@kane100574]

Thank you! this helped my confusion!

[@horusfalcon]

I hear what you're saying about support for one's favorite OS: I'm one of those who makes a small payment each month to support continued development of my favorite Linux distribution. It's the least we can do, and really does help bring greater quality of development, better diversity of available software, and other benefits to the distro. Perhaps, one day, I might move to the Raspberry Pi, but for now I'll stick with the big iron. It is nice to see just how capable a Raspberry Pi 4 is in this video.

[@susancarr9955]

Good job, mate.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks!

[@AMDRADEONRUBY]

Nice a new video hope you had a nice Christmas

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks! You too!

[@jmlineb]

Thank you so much for this Boxing Day gift!

[@JohnStopman]

Happy new year to you Chris :)

[@ExplainingComputers]

Happy new year!

[@mftv3459]

Nice video Merry Christmas y'all

[@davidg5898]

Interesting point about Operating Systems. The big operating systems (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android) are heavily subsidized by their cost partly being hidden in the price of new hardware and ever increasingly also by app store purchases and data collection and aggregation. But most Linux distributions don't have the benefit of having their development subsidized like that and rely heavily on donations and free labor from enthusiasts. Even the paid enterprise distros, like Red Hat, are still on old-school direct payment/licensing models.

[@owendavidmalicsi5900]

Merry Christmas Chris!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks -- you too!

[@Reziac]

Good point on the problem of free software generally... it's not a self-sustaining ecosystem and if it's to be more serious than a hobby, depends on external funding one way or another. Pi has the advantage of selling hardware to support itself.

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

Floor to ceiling. I feel you're in a pinch, but you're not missing any meals. - not on purpose. Much love, brother.

[@BobDoe_69]

Merry Christmas!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Same to you!

[@ronm6585]

Thank you. 👍🏻

[@Tree2Tool]

Sorry to say nothing is truly for free. When the users become the testers of newly released software of any kind, their time is wasted trying to make something defective function. Thank you for the update on the Raspberry Pi OS. Your previous presentation about the lack of backwards compatibility nudged RPi group to release a legacy version of the OS.

[@chrissoskavounis4307]

Thank you Chris ! Another great video for the pi users!!! Have you tried the MX version for the pi? It is based on debian(raspberry pi os) but it is very well putted together. For my pi4 i use this one and the manjaro xfce version . Anyway give a try if you want! You will be amazed!!!

[@joeg3950]

I held off purchasing a rpi camera. I think I will wait until the bugs are settled. Happy Holidays!

[@daveseddon5227]

Getting closer!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Well said.

[@Just_lift_anyone]

Happy Christmas and all the Billy best for the new year! Who knows, maybe we'll be able to buy a CM4 in 2022 🤣

[@ExplainingComputers]

:)

[@pavan13]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@ExplainingComputers]

Same to you!

[@player07441]

about time and shown in this amazing vid, i would also make a joke but it would be legacy when nyou see it

[@Rouxenator]

While my Pi is only used as a home server with no cameras I have not been able to update it to Bullseye. That said, Debian seems to be the only current OS that supports 32-bit processors. I have a couple of Via C7 1ghz thin clients that I successfully installed the latest release of Debian Bullseye on (headless) with no issues and the performance is exceptional.

[@Colin_Ames]

First of all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks for this update, it clarifies the situation. As for your comments about our expectations when it comes to software, you make a good point. Should we really expect everything for free? I don't know the answer.

[@WalterW]

Happy Boxing Day! I hope everyone had a merry/happy Christmas!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks Walter. Season's Greetings to you too.

[@WalterW]

@@ExplainingComputers Thank you, Chris. Always enjoy the videos!

[@sid_gm1949]

Wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year 🎉

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks, and the same to you - and everybody here!

[@pavan13]

Great Video

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks!

[@ShadowzGSD]

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, best wishes for a fantastic new year. Only another 50 or so videos and it will be Christmas again.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks! :) I am already planning the next 50 . . .

[@BharatMohanty]

Greetings from India sir and merry Christmas...i am Too late.. almost forgot that today is Sunday 😂

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings! Festive ones no less. :)

[@parrotraiser6541]

Maybe I'm missing something, but running from the terminal looks as though it could have been fixed with a symbolic link or an alias setting. Python's libraries are a different kettle of frogs. P.S. thanks for keeping on schedule. Not all of us have relatives to fend off. :-)*

[@fbg1907]

Hi Chris, I was expecting to see a video about log4j this week.

[@kurtweber162]

as always well done and presented. May I ask an off topic question? Any advice on books on Linux terminal commands? Thanks in advance, trying to guess is driving me a bit nuts. lol.

[@ExplainingComputers]

I have an intro video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZylXpiIeN-Kf7c

[@pavan13]

I actually have both bullseye and legacy running on different Raspberry Pi but the legacy version has an older version of chromium i.e 92 and the bullseye has chromium 95 i also updated both the os but still it has the older version of chromium in legacy version

[@ratlinuxgamer2855]

Thanks!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your support, most appreciated. :)

[@PatrickConstant]

I used the distro on a new PI W zero 2 W, adding MotionEye package and it's work fine. Thanks

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good to know that worked, thanks for sharing. :)

[@NicoDsSBCs]

Hi Christopher. Good there is a working solution for the camera. And I hope now the RPi foundation will push the main version to arm64. It is a bit silly to be using armhf on a powerful arm64 board. Too bad VPU drivers come in the way. They could also use a way better looking desktop too. Not needed anymore to save that much memory if they sell a 8GB version. I tried Manjaro KDE on the RPi400 and was amazed about how well it looked and ran. It used to be a lot more laggy on RPi4. Overal I like the RPi400 since it's well cooled. But the keyboard ain't very good. And there's still the known problem with non-RPi PSUs that deliver 5V instead of the 5.3V of RPi PSUs. I find that really a shame. I can't run the RPi4/400 from most power banks because of this. Always undervolting and clocked to 600Mhz without even showing it. This is a problem that is easily fixed. And no other SBC/maker has that much problems with this. Having proprietary PSU for USB(-C) is just dumb. There's finally news on the RK3588. First SBCs should come out in 1st quater of 22. I've already bought a voucher for $5 to have $50 off when it's out. I'm still waiting on the RadxaZero after perhaps 6 months. How I hate the shortages. I hope you had a great Christmas. En best of luck for 2022. Greetings. NicoD

[@mc10guru]

Ahoy Chris, Thanks for letting us know about the problems with the new RPi OS. My problem is that I consider an upgrade something that can be applied over my present system. RPi OS 11 cannot do that, it has to be a new install. It took me about 7 months to get my system where it is now and don't relish that process again. I use MIDI keyboards etc and just getting MIDI working well took me almost a month.; anyone who uses Linux can tell you how finicky the sound is. I still can't use Pulseaudio and 2 months ago my Jack server broke. This happened right after a power failure messed with my SSD. I can still run my system but any attempt at a BU fails. My plan now is to get a new Bullseye system setup on a HDD on my RPi 400. When I get it all done and working I'll reformat my SSD and copy the HDD over to my SSD. Ah well, it's a long winter with time to spare here in Ohio USA. Happy Holidays! MC10Guru

[@madmattman5675]

Great video! I just have one quick question: Is there any news on whether the camera will work on a pi02w on bullseye using the new stack? 🙂 Tanks!

[@sid_gm1949]

And here we meet again Greetings

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings! :)

[@philspencelayh5464]

Good rundown on the changes. The cost of OS's is a bit of a paradox, it's why I'm on Linux, got sick of buying Microsoft products, I don't mind paying for them but do mind when a few years down the line you are told to cough up for a new OS because it won't work anymore. I don't use the current free versions because once you're on Linux you realise you don't need it.

[@rpavlik1]

Weird about the resolution quirk, looks like not enough memory assigned to the camera interface as it says "not enough resources". Hopefully it's a simple oops and fix.

[@frozensolidupnorth]

Happy New Year. I get what you mean about endless updates how ever I have an Android tablet that will not let me upgrade and now can't run apps like KZbin, Twitter, etc so a perfectly good tablet will now have to be replaced with a newer one. Planned obselescence IMO.

[@rivertees]

Thanks

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your support, most appreciated. :)

[@Noxeus1996]

Regarding OS support: recently a German law was passed that requires manufacturers of digital devices to provide software updates for the expected life span of a product because for many products at some point the manufacturer just stops providing updates or shuts down a server that is essential for the product to function.

[@ExplainingComputers]

I very interesting law that I fully support. It is terrible how many tablets, smart phones and TVs stop getting updates after only a few years.

[@perrymcclusky4695]

I buy a computer and get the operating system free. Yet, for many of us, that free system eventually dictates that we buy a new computer. Isn’t technology fascinating. I’m sure Mr. Scissors and Stanley the Knife could cut straight through to a proper solution. Looking forward too your next video!

[@fredflintstone1]

Happy New year, as a new user should I bother with legacy or just use bullseye and progress from there and use the new camera driver??

[@ExplainingComputers]

It depends what you want to do with the camera. If you want to access it using Python code (including doing any of the existing projects or tutorials you may find online), you have to use the Legacy OS.

[@steveoddlers9696]

That screen around the 4-minute-mark looks like it's asking me whether I have Soundblaster or Adlib sound.

[@user-pk8fr8ix6d]

It's kinda weird that they rolled out 'legacy' image but not used it to help to switch mainline OS to 64-bit version. Someone at RPiF started celebrating new year way too early

[@ExplainingComputers]

I agree. If we are (as now) going to have "new" and "legacy", then there seems very little reason not to make the new OS 64-bit.

[@SergiuszRoszczyk]

@@ExplainingComputers I agree! 64-bit OS image still doesn't have Pi Zero 2 device tree file and you have to hack it by copying Pi3B dtb file.

[@sbc_tinkerer]

Happy holidays! Here we are, back again, for another fine videoooo. Trade offs galore by going legacy but nice to see the availability for the legacy needs. “OSes are always a work in progress” as is our “species.” 🙄

[@IncertusetNescio]

Interesting that the crash states "Failed to enable component: Out of resources". I wonder if it's a driver limitation where it tries to allocate more pixel memory space than the driver is able to handle at those higher resolutions (definitely NOT a 4GB limit, my napkin math for a 8-bit depth picture raw at the max res is >256MB,

[@sanjayrevanna8903]

iam currently running the raspberry pi OS and have been coding for the self driving project and now I have a problem with the camera not being working with the current OS and many have insisted to install the legacy OS , but if I need to install the legacy os will the existing work which I have done be erased ?

[@Michael-pw1gc]

I do have problems with the bullseye os. My camera don't get recognised and if I try to youse libcam-hello my os give me a error massage of something, that is documented but the fix don't work

[@Griffon37]

Chris, can I ask where your red Pi base comes from as it looks like a great solution for desk access and stability

[@lorderectus1849]

Rudolf is quite red this time of year!

[@kurtgreter9841]

Very good work, as usual. So far everything is going very well, only the command raspistill -t 0 shows no image. But would be important to focus. Do you have a solution for this? Thanks!

[@IanSlothieRolfe]

I do accept your comments regarding the evolving nature of free OS development, but I am puzzled why they couldn't solve this without needing a "legacy" version of Raspian. Clearly in the raspi-config they are doing some shuffling around of shared libraries, so if the "old" libraries are being substituted why couldn't they allow the pycamera library to work with these old libraries enabled? Perhaps camera support is too tightly linked into the Kernel. It would also have been more "pythonic" to have the new python library backward compatible, so that you just include 'pycamera' as before and python uses the libraries that are installed. That would have meant that all the examples and tutorials out there would still apply, even if they now miss out on new features. Given the educational nature of the Raspberry Pi Iwould have thought that this would have been an important consideration for the foundation.

[@cdl0]

This should be true; however, I suspect that there are some proprietary, close-source, binary blobs involved somewhere, and less than full, open documentation of the hardware, which makes the camera system more difficult to fix than it ought to be. You have no right to repair!

[@cjlowe1650]

Does anyone know how long Pi foundation will support the Legacy version? Before we are force to re-write all our code????

[@pranavpatil1004]

I am having an issue ,i.e. the pictures the camera is clicking are blurry. Can you give any solution to that . We are using Buster OS(Raspberry Pi OS(Legacy). We are using 8MP ptz arducam camera.