standalone library for raspicam about raspicam_node HOT 2 OPEN

Thanks for the suggestion.

What kind of features are you looking for from a C/C++ library that MMAL doesn't provide? Under the hood everything raspicam_node does is using the MMAL libraries, which AFIAK are largely provided by Broadcom.

I could see an argument for a C++ library that provides a more idiomatic interface than MMAL, but that seems like a tremendous undertaking. Especially considering documentation, maintenance, etc.

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I am looking for a high-level API to simply access the camera data. Large portions of the ROS node code is for settings up the camera and reading data from it. This is independent of the ROS configuration and communication and could be extracted into a library.
E.g. I am maintaining a fork of this repo at https://github.com/christianrauch/raspicam2_node as a ROS2 node. I separated the ROS2 (RasPiCamPublisherNode.cpp) from the camera code (raspicam.cpp) and you basically communicte via callbacks.
Such a library could be created to serve as common logic for a ROS1 and ROS2 node.

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