Camera board • Importing picamera2 is very slow

Hi,

I'm porting to picamera2 after many years on picamera for a remote monitoring application. I'm mildly concerned that importing picamera2 takes 20 seconds on a pi Zero W Trixie. Is this expected? Loading python takes no time. Are there configuration mistakes I made moving from Bullseye to Trixie?

Suggestions welcome!

Statistics: Posted by jensenhuang — Fri Jan 23, 2026 5:10 am

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