Pi 5 camera config switch takes 8 seconds
Switching picamera2 configurations on Raspberry Pi 5 with CM5 on balenaOS takes about 8 seconds due to a kernel driver teardown bug.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 5 May 2026 · last reported 6 May 2026
What's going wrong
Developers running camera software on Raspberry Pi 5 with an IMX477 sensor find that switching configurations at runtime needs about eight seconds on balenaOS.
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