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I've mounted an Arducam 5 MP camera inside a SmartiPi 2 case with the official 7" touchscreen powered by a Pi 4. Unfortunately, when I take a picture or use it as a webcam, the camera appears to be rotated 90˚ to the right. Is there a way to rotate the image at the driver level, or another way to make the image be right-side-up? The primary intention is to use it as a video conferencing device, so post-processing isn't an option.

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Reset to default
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I have the same setup and same problem. I got my case from Adafruit and the setup instructions at smarticase.com/setup says to do this:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

then add this right above exit 0

v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl=rotate=90

It works! What I was missing was the fact that I thought the "412" was a number, when in fact it is the number 4, the lower case letter l, and the number 2! Once I put that in rc.local, all is well.

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  • OK, it works. But although you should take note that using /etc/rc.local has limitations due to Compatibility with SysV. We have seen many problems here on this site using it. Following the recommendation of the developers from systemd you should avoid using it. It is possible that it suddenly doesn't run anymore after an upgrade.
    – Ingo
    Commented Jul 13, 2020 at 9:36
  • I forgot about this question! This is the same solution I came up with, but it put it in my .bashrc.
    – Colin Dean
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 0:23
  • What then is the solution to rotate the screen 90 degrees to the right?
    – subman
    Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 14:11

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