How to turn off Raspberry Pi Camera red led ?

So this might be one the like simplest thing you wanna do with your raspberry pi camera .

The Led in the raspberry pi camera 1 as well as v2 is quite bright and as a matter of fact we can manually control it and use it like we are using a led directly connected to raspberry pi GPIO pins

Step 1 : Login into raspberry pi using normal gui or ssh

Step 2 : Run this line in terminal

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

we need to modify the config file in order to set off the led this line opens config file in nano text editor

Step 3 : Scroll down to the file end using arrow keys

Config file window

Step 4: Add the following line in the end of the file

disable_camera_led=1

Press ctrl+ s and then ctrl + x and save the file and exit

Step 5: Reboot the pi by using the following command

sudo reboot now 

Now test by running the following script in python3

import time
import picamera

with picamera.PiCamera() as camera:
    camera.resolution = (1024, 768)
    camera.start_preview()
    camera.led= False 
    time.sleep(2)
    camera.capture('foo.jpg')
camera.led= False 

Happy Experimenting :)

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