C++ / OpenFrameworks usage

[gilbert.sinnott]

Hello, very happy to find the SD1 works out the box and as a Pi camera, thought having problems sending flags via C++.

I’m using OpenFrameworks and an addon called ofxCvPiCam, and by default it launches the camera in what I think is “mode 1”. I’m trying to work out then how to send these flags to the Pi Camera / MMAL through the addon.

Here is an example of a setSaturation method in ofxCvPiCam;

int ofxCvPiCam::setSaturation(int saturation){
    int ret = 0;

       if (!camera)
          return 1;

       if (saturation >= -100 && saturation <= 100)
       {
          MMAL_RATIONAL_T value = {saturation, 100};
          ret = mmal_status_to_int(mmal_port_parameter_set_rational(camera->control, MMAL_PARAMETER_SATURATION, value));
       }
       else
       {
          ofLogError("Invalid saturation value");
          ret = 1;
       }

       return ret;
}

How would I go about creating something like this?

    void ofxCvPiCam::setMode(int i) {

    // ???

    }

Thanks,

Gilbert

[mwlinder]

I am not at all familiar with the ofxCvPiCam package, and so I’m afraid that I won’t be able to be very helpful. In general, if it works with the camera module, it will work equivalently using PiCapture (the Raspberry Pi can’t tell the difference).

A couple of ideas:
— generally, the “mode” would be established at the time the object is created. I don’t think that MMAL can deal with changing the resolution/camera mode after it is set during initialization. The “setup” method in the ofxCvPiCam example code (cam.setup) has parameters for width and height, and might be something to try
— you might look at the source code for raspivid and see how it handles initialization of the camera.

Please post the solution if you find it – there may be others that are interested in using this package. If you are stuck, I may be able to look at it in a week or so and try to help figure it out.

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