Setting 'sensor_mode' has no effect

[dneunkirch]

After the upgrade from version 1.09 to 1.12 has setting the sensor_mode no effect anymore (same behavior on 6 pi's).

Example:

#!/usr/bin/python
import picamera

with picamera.PiCamera(sensor_mode=2, resolution=(1920, 1080), framerate=15) as camera:
  camera.capture('preview.jpg', format='jpeg', quality=10, use_video_port=True, splitter_port=2)

If I take a picture with raspistill it's working (raspistill -w 1920 -h 1080 -md 2 -o test.jpg).

Problem on:
4.4.20-v7+ #908 SMP Wed Sep 7 14:44:27 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux (Raspberry 3)
4.4.20+ #908 Wed Sep 7 14:35:04 BST 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux (Raspberry B, B+, 2)

Edit:
sensor_mode has only no effect if the parameter use_video_port with the value True is given.

[dneunkirch]

After further analysis I have found out that the problem comes with the release 1.11.

If you want to get the current sensor_mode with camera.sensor_mode it always returns 0 but the method configure_camera(...) is correctly invoked and sets the given sensor_mode. It seems so that the parameter MMAL_PARAMETER_CAMERA_CUSTOM_SENSOR_CONFIG is wrong, but on the same firmware with release 1.10 it's working.

[waveform80]

Yup, confirmed - I'll have a look into this tonight.

[waveform80]

Doh, I knew this rang a bell - 6by9 pointed it out back in #307 and I completely forgot about it!