How remove camera preview to raspberry pi

Question

I installed the SimpleCv on my raspberryPi and the driver to use the camera board with it (uv4l driver) and now I\'d like to play with it. When I type on simpleCV shell \"Camer

Answer 1

The RasPi camera is more integrated than a standard plug-play webcamera, and as a result, I haven't had much sucess using simpleCV's camera functions. Instead I use a simple python script that I call prior to running my simpleCV analysis that grabs an image and saves it to the disk

import subprocess

imgName = '/home/pi/blahblah.jpg'

def takePicture(imgName):
    subprocess.call('raspistill -n -t 1 -o %s' &imgName, shell = True)