I am trying make the raspberry pi camera work with opencv

Question

I tried making this code work with the raspberry pi cam. how do you make the cv2.VideoCapture(0) recognise the raspberry pi camera as the designated camera

Answer 1

You cannot use cv2.VideoCapture() for RaspiCam.

The cv2.VideoCapture() is only for USB camera, not for CSI camera.

If you want to use RaspiCam for capturing, you can refer this tutorial