Camera takes time after changing setting/config before stable picture

[brigei]

Hi,

i'm currently working on an similar projekt. There i have the problem, that after a change of settings/config from for example grayscale to jpg (but the other way around as well), the camera takes up to a few seconds before i gets a stable picture/frame. Before that the picture changes because of adjusting the white balance etc. I kind of fixed the problem with waiting a few moments before taking the picture but thats not what i want. Of course i wanne be fast with the motion detetction. In particular i wanna be fast with changing config/settings because after detection a motion i wanna take a picture and instantly change back to motion detection and so on. There (motion detection) i have the same problem. The camera takes a few seconds before the picture gets stable enough again for motion detection. I wonder if you evade the problem with averaging the pixel in your boxes, but i hardly believe that because the first few frames after changing settings look aweful at my esp.

Didn't you have similar issues? In your code i didn't find a significant "delay" after changing config/settings.

Thanks in advance.
Manuel

[alanesq]

The problem is that the only way I have found to switch modes is to basically completely restart the camera which, the documentation claims you can just switch modes but I have never managed to get this to work