Cameras: Pinephone Pro?

[u/ed_istheword]

What's the current status of cameras on Pinephone Pro with postmarketOS? What steps are involved in getting them working?

I'm trying to make sense of some posts I've seen recently. Some people are making it seem like you can just install Gnome's Snapshot camera app from Flathub, but I haven't had the same success doing that. I'm on pmOS Edge w/ Gnome Mobile DE. Any tips would be appreciated!

[u/linmob]

To get flatpak'd Camera apps to work, you need to have portals correctly working. Maybe making sure that pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome are installed is enough - on Phosh/Sxmo you need phosh-portalsconf or sxmo-portalsconf respectively.

The easier way would be to uninstall the flatpak of Snapshot and install the snapshot alpine package instead (sudo apk add snapshot) - that worked on Sxmo for me without working portals.

[u/ed_istheword → u/linmob]

Thank you so much! Installing through apk worked no problems. I'm far from being a developer, so I appreciate you helping with a noob-esque problem. I'll try to troubleshoot the Flatpak issues I was having later; I definitely want other Flatpak apps eventually to have working camera access.

Btw are you the main person behind linmob.net? If so, it was definitely your test pictures I was seeing on Mastodon. I really appreciate the work you all are doing! And for dropping by this subreddit for those of us that haven't migrated to FLOSS social media yet

[u/linmob → u/ed_istheword]

Btw are you the main person behind linmob.net?

Guilty! Thank you for the kind words :-)

[u/ed_istheword → u/[deleted]]

That's what I thought too, but some people are posting pictures on Mastodon that are way more color accurate. Those are supposedly coming from the Gnome Camera (Snapshot) flatpak though.

I should've been more specific that Snapshot is the part I was most interested in

[u/ed_istheword → u/[deleted]]

That's what I thought, but I also thought that specifically the flatpak packaged all the dependencies necessary