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#RaspberryPi

[dflate]

You can always count on the Raspberry Pi team to work through issues like this smartly and do the right thing!

[towfiqanwarakib]

Woah....didn't expect that coming THIS fast...

[AdityaRaj-bqdz]

this solutions enables the legecy camera support which wont give u any display output if u are just using a remote desktop as a display and nothing attached to the HDMI ports

can someone help me solving this problem?

[pratyushjayachandran]

A small not for VNC users.

This will prevent you from viewing the desktop via VNC. Disabling the Legacy Camera Stack will re-enable it.

[nopalfi]

I finished following tutorial about pi camera few weeks ago and bullseye version come out. A bit of afraid to upgrade. Maybe it's to try to upgrade.

[whothefoxcares]

some videos are *far too short* to break up with multiple commercials that youtube prefers to enhance its revenue stream.

[juancarlossalazarvaca]

when active this option, reboot my raspberry pi 4, vnc viewer stop running because shows "Cannot currently show the desktop" :(

[uksuperrascal]

There is no downloads page now with a sudo dpkg option, so how do I download imager using OS ubuntu studio, because I can not get iamger to install with the installer app you now use. I just bought Pi Zero 2 W and need an OS. Is there an alternative to imager?

[APToons]

After doing this my pi no longer boots. Any ideas why?

[PiDsPagePrototypes]

HDMI-to-CSI board owners - be aware, the board is NOT supported in BULLSEYE without this change, even if you enable it in the GUI, you still need to do it in Raspi-Config for it to work.
It does work in Buster Legacy with the usual CSI Camera turned on in raspi-config or in the GUI System Preferences.

[Jr-fmye]

Can you make the keyboard into a mechanical version with a working hdmi and have another version that folds that way people have more options to choose from I’m sure someone would pay a extra $100 for that as long as you keep the other ones selling

[kavorka]

$ libcamera-hello
ERROR: the system appears to be configured for the legacy camera stack

[rayhannf]

Is there any solution, first i already install pip install picamera, in cmd say it succes. After that i call the picamera in thony but it cant, do you have any solution?

[fabriziodutto]

On RaspberryPi B+ this is not working :-(

[wiiwillRule]

This doesn't work for me... I genuinely don't get what could be going on. Still getting this error: Failed to create MMAL component b'vc.camera_info': Function not implemented

All I'm running is cam = picamera.PiCamera()

[McFly.]

yesterday i spend 1h figuring this out

[clientprojects]

I'm not able to interface enable the legacy camera, Please help me. It show that this option is deprecated

[ygglw]

About time!! To have released bullseye without making sure the camera software worked properly, without giving this advice at the outset was short sighted. To remove buster from the imager choice list was equally daft!

[TheIgoorR]

I have no this option on lates OS with RPi4 and GSCam

[run]

Yes, I knew that, but, are you telling me that the ONLY way to make pi camera working in bullseye is using legacy ?! There must be a way to make it working again, I have developed a python application that uses the camera, and it should be a new api or something similar to use the camera without using that legacy option