Hi,
I have been mucking around with the arducam 64mp camera and I’ve got it doing what I want (Focusing the camera and then taking a bunch of photos when an object detector detects an object in the frame). However, it takes about 2 seconds for the camera to finish the focus cycle. I am hoping I can speed this up. Looking at the libcamera documentation there is a control to change the AF speed. I cannot get this to work in my code, it basically says it is not “advertied” by libcamera.
I was hoping someone has had some success with this or can I help me debug this. I am familiar with python but pretty rough on c++ which libcamera is written in. I have sifted through the header files used by libcamera and I can find parts that mention “AfSpeed” so I am not too sure why it isn’t found or working.
Link to libcamera documentation:
https://libcamera.org/api-html/namespac … 7632404f4a
Error I get when I try and change the focus speed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/pi/Dev/autofocuscam/videoTest.py”, line 48, in
picam2.set_controls({“AfSpeed”: 1})
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/picamera2/picamera2.py”, line 839, in set_controls
self.controls.set_controls(controls)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/picamera2/controls.py”, line 58, in set_controls
self.setattr(k, v)
File “/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/picamera2/controls.py”, line 33, in setattr
raise RuntimeError(f"Control {name} is not advertied by libcamera")
RuntimeError: Control AfSpeed is not advertied by libcamera
Cheers, Jack