Using RPi camera module on beta Raspberry Pi 3 64 bit OS

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Has anyone had any luck getting the Raspberry Pi camera module working on the beta Raspberry Pi 3 64 bit OS? I’ve tried the steps shown here:
https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/develop/hardware/i2c-and-spi/#raspberry-pi-camera-module

In my app I’m using OpenCV’s python interface to grab frames from the Pi camera. Using a USB webcam works fine but I get the following error with the Raspberry Pi camera module:

VIDEOIO ERROR: V4L: can't open camera by index 0

I wanted to check here since all the examples seem to be using the 32 bit OS.

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Hey,

Just to let you know that we are looking into this, and will hopefully have some news soon.

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Thanks for the update, Rich! I’m looking forward to learning about what you find!

For now I’ve moved to the RPi 3 32 bit OS and the camera module is working as expected.

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Hi @ericvb ,

For my testing setup I used this project which uses opencv to read a frame from the camera and print some info about it (width, height, channels).
Using the current 64bit production version of balenaOS for the pi3 (2.38.0+rev1) indeed the camera module doesn’t work.
I also tried the 2.43.0 rev1 64bit version which hasn’t been released yet, the outcome was that it works as expected!

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You can say I am unlucky because it’s not working on my Blackberry, in fact, I purchased my blackberry from Christmas Coupons at Reecoupons, can you fix my issue?

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Hi, did you end up having any news? Im looking all over internet for a solution here. :slight_smile: