I just purchased a Sony IMX500 "AI camera" to run inference on some video. I'm using this camera on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit Bookworm) because it's a kiosk-mode project that just runs a single app in PyGame 1.9.6 and nothing else.
I'm disappointed to learn that the only available Python interface for this camera is via picamera2. Unfortunately, picamera2 has a fatal error for Raspberry Pi OS Lite. The picamera2 GitHub page (https://github.com/raspberrypi/picamera2) includes some instructions for installing it "without GUI dependencies" such as OpenGL and Qt, but the instructions are just flat-out wrong: the install process attempts to install PyQt5 and then fails.
I raised an issue about this on the developer's GitHub that was ignored. Further searches revealed that this problem first occurred in 2022 and has either resurfaced or was not fully addressed: viewtopic.php?t=338639 . So it appears that this issue is not a priority for the developer and I don't expect it to be resolved any time soon.
It is really a shame that virtually all Raspberry Pi camera infrastructure now requires a library that is absolutely not installable on Raspberry Pi Lite OS. It appears that Raspberry Pi OS Lite continues to be quietly neglected and to slide into disrepair as the community increasingly focuses on GUI-heavy and bloated environments as the future of the Raspberry Pi. (See also: pygame 2.x and SDL2 are uninstallable on Raspberry Pi Lite OS.)
I'm disappointed to learn that the only available Python interface for this camera is via picamera2. Unfortunately, picamera2 has a fatal error for Raspberry Pi OS Lite. The picamera2 GitHub page (https://github.com/raspberrypi/picamera2) includes some instructions for installing it "without GUI dependencies" such as OpenGL and Qt, but the instructions are just flat-out wrong: the install process attempts to install PyQt5 and then fails.
I raised an issue about this on the developer's GitHub that was ignored. Further searches revealed that this problem first occurred in 2022 and has either resurfaced or was not fully addressed: viewtopic.php?t=338639 . So it appears that this issue is not a priority for the developer and I don't expect it to be resolved any time soon.
It is really a shame that virtually all Raspberry Pi camera infrastructure now requires a library that is absolutely not installable on Raspberry Pi Lite OS. It appears that Raspberry Pi OS Lite continues to be quietly neglected and to slide into disrepair as the community increasingly focuses on GUI-heavy and bloated environments as the future of the Raspberry Pi. (See also: pygame 2.x and SDL2 are uninstallable on Raspberry Pi Lite OS.)
Statistics: Posted by sfsdfd — Thu Dec 05, 2024 7:21 pm