sorry for the delayed reply. Just back from holiday.

Can't believe this didn't occur to me

Thank you

Hi So we're doing a project with the STS-PI from Pimoroni and we were using the sandyjmacdonald/sts_pi_controller from here https://github.com/sandyjmacdonald/sts_pi_controller I wondered about adding camera on/off buttons to the code and have managed to do that and they're working almost as I expec...

Yes, thievery had occurred to me. I was going to hide it in the field near where we live. It has public access but mainly dog walkers. I'll have to see how well I can camouflage it and decide then.

Hi Everyone So my daughter and I finished our camera trap project and I got it all put together yesterday. Sat down to admire our work then had a little moment of panic. What if we leave it somewhere and someone thinks it's a bomb. I mean it's a paint tin with led's some sort of sensor and wires. Si...

this is indeed frustrating.. what do your system logs say? note: even though your Zero won't boot, you can still pull the sdhc, and if it's readable, mount it on another system and read the logs willie on the stormy Gulf of Mexico I did not know I could do that and have already wiped the SD card fo...

DougieLawson wrote:Is one an old Zero (no camera connector) and one a new Zero (with the camera connector)?

You may need updated kernel/firmware to run the newer Zero.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade will get that.

Thank you for the reply. They are both new versions with the camera adapter.

1. Check your power supply is beefy enough. 2. Check your USB-A to microUSB cable isn't weedy (if it's not integrated into your power supply) 3. Buy branded MicroSD cards that are at least 8GB from a reputable source 4. Remember you've only got 512MB of RAM, don't over commit it 5. Look for storage...

Hi peeps I have 2 pi zero 1.3s and the one which I have been using mostly has been playing up for a while. It would intermittently just lock up and no way to power down except unplug it, then would be problematic to boot again. It would refuse to boot unless left for a while then would seem OK. Toda...

OK, I will try without thank you.

code now working as i want completely redone. thank you for all your help!! import RPi.GPIO as GPIO from gpiozero import MotionSensor from picamera import PiCamera from datetime import datetime import time pir = MotionSensor(7) camera = PiCamera() try: print ("PIR Module Test (CTRL+C to exit)") time...

Thank you bensimmo, very helpful links. I have indeed just jumped in to the parent detector page and am now rewriting my code. I had been round a few places on the web but had not seen that one. I think I was definitely trying to over complicate things so I'm doing a complete start over. However I h...

davef21370 wrote:Try camera.close() when you clean up at the end.

Dave.

Thank you, this made no difference to the error.

Hi everyone I must first say I am a complete beginner and so I apologise in advance if I'm missing the obvious. I'm attempting to write code for a camera trap. I would like it to basically record video while motion is being detected and then to stop recording when there is nothing going on. So this ...

Ah OK, thank you. I'll give that a go:) I was having an error using f5 to run so I was using
Much appreciated:)

Hi Everyone First of all let me start by saying I am a complete beginner. I bought a pi so that I can learn and help my young daughter to learn coding since she won't be going to school. I am attempting to write my first python code for our camera trap project. I apologise now since I'm sure this is...