Getting Camera to work on Raspberry Pi with Just Terminal Access

Here is a simple guide to get started on Raspberry Pi Camera with just though ssh.

• Access through ssh
• ssh pi@<Pi's IP>
• Install
• $ sudo apt-get install python-picamera
• $ sudo apt-get install python3-picamera
• Enable Camera
• $ sudo raspi-config
• Interfacing options -> Camera -> Enable
• Create the Python script:
• $ touch test.py
• $ nano test.py

• paste one of the following:
• Camera sample code

from picamera import PiCamera
from time import sleep

camera = PiCamera()
camera.start_preview()
sleep(10)
camera.stop_preview()

• Video Sample code

camera.start_preview()
camera.start_recording('/home/pi/video.h264')
sleep(10)
camera.stop_recording()
camera.stop_preview()

• $ python test.py
• Copy the file over to host
• $ scp <video or image file> <host user name>@<hosts's IP>:<host destination folder>
• The video file can be played through VLC.