Hello all, we have tried to use a HQ camera but the openflexure software gives a “netwok error” and does not detect the camera. However, it works perfectly with raspistill called from a shell window. The library picameraX library apparently supports the HQ camera and some people in this forum are p…

I don’t use the HQ camera, but as you say others on the forum have used it with the Openflexure software. In general problems on the Pi camera often come down to the connection. It is possible for a camera to work with raspistill, but not actually have all of the wires connected. So the first thing…

Thankyou for your reply, we just been testing three different cables and reseating them, none of them worked. I can see from the source code that the picameraX library is being used for camera access. As far as I can see, it has not been updated in about a year. And it has functions like “revision…

The switch to picamerax seems to have been this commit Switch to picamerax (54c342bb) · Commits · OpenFlexure / openflexure-microscope-server · GitLab ‘11 months ago’. That is about the same time as the thread Support for HQ Pi camera - General - OpenFlexure Forum where it clearly worked as it is th…

Hello, I attempted to use the OpenFlexure software with the HQ camera but I only got it to work the first time. After that I attempted to reconnect the camera with different cables and all and was not successful. In addition I did not have access to the Sangaboard to control the stepper motors. Tha…

Hello all for your help and suggestions. We realized that had a version of the software several months old, when updated to the lastest version, the HQ camera worked fine. We don’t notice any problem with the resolution, colors… everything fine. I guess that the software is getting images at the v2 …

Network error with HQ camera, is it supported?

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JohemianKnapsody 17 September 2025 15:06 7

An updated to this old thread, in case anyone finds this OpenFlexure with HQ Camera - #2 by zeus

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Network error with HQ camera, is it supported?

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