Installation

Snap Camera is in the main Raspian Repositories. Install it with:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-snap-camera

You must also enable the camera with:

$ sudo raspi-config

And also uncomment hdmi_force_hotplug=1 in /boot/config.txt.

You start Snap Camera by running:

$ snap-camera

Service

Snap Camera also runs as a service. To start Snap Camera:

$ sudo service snap-camera start

To stop Snap Camera:

$ sudo service snap-camera stop

To enable Snap Camera to run at boot:

$ sudo update-rc.d snap-camera defaults

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