Camera Things

Code for the raspberry pi that takes pictures from a raspberrypi camera HQ, and tags images with metadata via mavlink

Dependencies

pymavlink picamera2 pyserial (NOT serial)

Installation

First create a python virtual enviroment python -m venv .venv

Then activate it source .venv/bin/activate

Then install the needed packages

pip install pymavlink pyserial picamera2

Configuration

Raspberry Pi Configuration

sudo raspi-config

Select "Interfacing Options" -> "Serial"

Select no to "Would you like a login shell to be accessible over serial?". Select yes to "Would you like the serial port hardware to be enabled?".

The Pi's serial port will be on /dev/serial0

Ardupilot configuration

TODO

Running

Run main.py to start taking photos

Command line arguments

--binning Enable 2x2 binning
--save Save the photos
--time Enable time logging
--location Sets the file location
--file-format The file format to save the files (jpg, png, dng) Default: jpg
--number The number of photos to take. Default 1, 0 for infinite photos
--verbose If enabled, print the time data
--mavlink If enabled send mavlink messages to request attitude and GPS data