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For this test I am using Adafruit's VC0706 TTL serial camera. These are intelligent and impressive little cameras. The interface consists of just 3 wires; Tx, Rx and Gnd. Although the camera itself requires +5V, the interface functions at +3.3V levels making it ideal for connecting to a RPi. The default baud rate is 38400.

Its default and maximum image size is 640x480, which it can produce at 30fps. It produces a pretty good image. Its command set is extensive with many options, including motion detection. It also has a NTSC connection should someone want to connect it to a TV or recorder.

Here's picture of it mounted to a small tripod and connected to my Gertboard. As usual the RPi's GPIO pins are protected by running Tx and Rx through the Gertboard's buffers. This might be a good time to provide more details on these particular Gertboard connections, since Tx and Rx are going in opposite directions. Camera Tx (blue) >BUF1 (J10), B1 IN jumper installed, B1 (J3) >GPIO15 (J2) >Rpi (RxD) Camera Rx (green). Code: #!/usr/bin/python # python code for interfacing to VC0706 cameras and grabbing a photo # pretty basic stuff # written by ladyada. MIT license # revisions for Raspberrry Pi by Gordon Rush import serial BAUD = 38400 # this is the port on the Raspberry Pi; it will be different for serial ports on other systems.

PORT = '/dev/ttyAMA0' # PORT = 'COM8' TIMEOUT = 0.5 # I needed a longer timeout than ladyada's 0.2 value SERIALNUM = 0 # start with 0, each camera should have a unique ID. The Gertboard isn't required at all. I have one so I try to use it to protect the RPi's GPIO pins. But sometimes I don't bother to connect it, if it's not already hooked up.

Not sure about video. Haven't tried that on the RPi yet. It did work ok when I had the camera connected to my regular laptop. The camera has a buffer, but I'm not sure how many frames it can hold before it gets full.

I suppose that might be an issue using the RPi. Something to put on my to do list. As far as using 2 of these for stereo video, the RPi just has 1 UART. But maybe other pins could be setup as a pseudo serial input. Haven't tried that yet. Something else for my to do list.

Hello, I have the same TTL camera hooked up to my Raspberry Pi and I have having trouble running the Python script. Here is what I have done. Have Python installed Installed PySerial.

Download the raspi_camera.py script from ladyadas github in lxterminal I typed: chmod +x raspi_camera.py - to make the file executable then sudo./raspi_camera.py When I run it I get IndexError: list index out of range and it lists certain lines of code. I this error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File '*./raspi_camera.py', line 153, in reset() File './raspi_camera. Download Gta San Andreas Player Mods Installer. py', line 47, in reset if checkreply(r, CMD_RESET): File './raspi_camera.py', line 38, in checkreply if (r[0] == 0x76 and r[1] == SERIALNUM and r[2] == b and r[3] == 0x00): IndexError: list index out of range What is the issue? Ok so I powered the ttl camera with my arduino while keeping the data connections to the Raspberry Pi because I thought it might be a power issue.

Now I am getting different results. When I run sudo./raspi_camera.py It says Camera Not Found. So the script is running perfectly right now. By the way I had to enable the serial connection by using this link: Now I am thinking it must be a connection error but I dont get it, it should work.