brainwagon

One thing I didn’t realize when I setup the Raspberry Pi camera to monitor my humming bird feeder was that it has a bright red led which turns on when the camera is enabled. In most cases, this light isn’t a big deal, but I am pointing it out the window, so the reflection of it is kind of annoying. You can see it in my earlier pictures, but I didn’t realize what it was until later, when I got this picture:

Luckily, it’s easy to disable. Just edit the file /boot/config.txt, and add a line which looks like:

disable_camera_led=1

and then reboot. Voila. All is fixed. This might be handy if you wanted to setup a stealth security camera as well. Just noted here, so I don’t forget.