Camera mirror over RealVNC
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:51 pm
One of the first things I did when I got the Pi configured was connect to it over RealVNC and try to fire up the camera.
The built-in raspistill utility will not be mirrored over RealVNC, since it renders directly to GPU.
However the QV4L2 utility will work fine, it will render video from the Pi Cam to a window, and it can be mirrored over RealVNC. It has a bunch of handy settings, including vertical flip of the camera image.
Try this:
sudo apt-get install qv4l2
sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2
qv4l2
If you want to permanently add the bcm2835-v4l2 driver, edit /etc/modules and add "bcm2835-v4l2" to the file. The camera driver module will be installed at boot time.
The built-in raspistill utility will not be mirrored over RealVNC, since it renders directly to GPU.
However the QV4L2 utility will work fine, it will render video from the Pi Cam to a window, and it can be mirrored over RealVNC. It has a bunch of handy settings, including vertical flip of the camera image.
Try this:
sudo apt-get install qv4l2
sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2
qv4l2
If you want to permanently add the bcm2835-v4l2 driver, edit /etc/modules and add "bcm2835-v4l2" to the file. The camera driver module will be installed at boot time.