Connecting & Enabling the Camera

Don’t start up your Raspberry Pi yet!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• Before you start up your RaspPi take the picamera and find the end of the ribbon attached to it which should have metal bands like this:

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• Put those metal bands on the end of the ribbon of the camera into the slot on the RaspPi that is between the HDMI port and the composite video and audio output jack, it’s labeled on the diagram of the RaspPi as the CSI camera port which should look like the picture below (from 2 different angles)

• Don’t worry if it doesn’t go all the way in or if it doesn’t make a clicking noise, it’s not supposed to do that
• Now, start up your RaspPi
• Open the main menu by clicking on the RaspPi symbol in the upper left corner and then click on the seventh option ‘Preferences’
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• Go to the last option on the preferences menu ‘Raspberry Pi Configuration’ and this should come up:

                            

• Make sure the camera is enabled, and if it isn’t click enable and then reboot the RaspPi
• Ignore the other options even if they aren’t like in the picture above
• Once your RaspPi is rebooted go to your keyboard and do Ctrl-Alt-F1 which should bring you to the command line

• Type in ‘sudo raspi-config’ and this should come up

** Mine did not come up with the camera option so I had to go (on mine) option 5 which says ‘Interfacing Options : Configure connections to peripherals’ then choose the first option ‘P1 Camera : Enable/Disable connection to the Raspberry Pi Camera’ then it asks if you would like the camera interface to be enabled and then you hit yes then it should tell you that the camera interface is enabled

https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-tutorials/16021420-how-to-install-use-the-raspberry-pi-camera

https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/getting-started-with-picamera/worksheet/