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python script containing picamera2 when added in crontab not working

Open sravich1 opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

python script containing picamera2 when added in crontab not working

sudo crontab -e @reboot /bin/sleep 60;sudo /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/Work/test_camera.py &

test_camera.py

1 from picamera2 import Picamera2, Preview 2 import time 3 picam2 = Picamera2() 4 camera_config = picam2.create_preview_configuration() 5 picam2.configure(camera_config) 6 picam2.start_preview(Preview.QTGL) 7 picam2.start() 8 time.sleep(2) 9 picam2.capture_file("test.jpg")

if I run the python script individually this is working but when run using crontab the python script does not get executed

sravich1 avatar Oct 05 '23 13:10 sravich1