How to connect

Most of carrierboards are using a 22-Pin FPC/FFC connector. The images below are showing the camera connection for the Raspberry PI IMX219 camera on a JNX30 Carrierboard using a 15- to 22-Pin adapter .

Camera Capture

The parameter sensor-id= describes the camera target. This id can be found by using ls /dev/. If the camera correctly plugged in then there should be a device called /dev/videoX, where X is the camera id.

All pipelines listed below are using the NVIDIA accelerated Argus GStreamer-plugins to make use of the NVIDIA Jetson specific hardware components

Common properties

Capture examples

Document revisions and changes

What is CSI?

CSI (Camera Serial Interface) is a specification for the transmission of video data from a camera sensor to a processor or other device. It is commonly used in embedded and mobile systems for a low latency video input.

• Q: Is the camera sensor <insert_sensor_name_here> supported by your firmware?

  • A: Our default firmware currently only supports the Raspberry PI IMX219. If you need further support with a different camera, you may want to contact us (support@auvidea.eu)

• Q: My custom camera does not work on your board?

  • A: You may want to contact your camera vendor, if he already supports our carrierboard with their camera. If not, you may want to contact us (support@auvidea.eu)

• Q: Why doesn't my IMX219 sensor on your Carrierboard?

  • A: Its required to install a custom firmware on the Jetson to support our carrierboards properly. You can find the downloads for our image on our

• Q: I have installed your firmware, but my IMX219 sensor still does not work.

  • A: Please make sure that you have connected the camera properly to your carrierboard. You may want to reach out to us, If the camera still does not work (support@auvidea.eu)

• Q: How is the CSI-Connector configured on your carrierboard?

  • A: You can find a more detailed description of the CSI-Connectors in the manual on our of your carrierboard

Introduction

The Video4Linux-API (V4L in short) is the Linux interface that is used to manage the CSI video input from the CSI-Camera. Most of those cameras are using I2C for futher configurations for the camera, which can be changed over the V4L-API in the following ways.

Video4Linux Controls

V4L allows the user to make further configurations on the Camera sensor to alter/improve the video stream settings.

The video device can be found in the /dev/ directory. If the camera correctly plugged in then there should be a device called /dev/videoX, where X is the camera id.

List available controls

Returns a list of available camera controls to change

Syntax: sudo v4l2-ctl --device /dev/videoX -l

Set control value

For this example we use the exposure controls from the list above

This control can be changed by using the following command Syntax: sudo v4l2-ctl --device /dev/videoX --set-ctrl=<control>=<value>

Get control value

For this example we use the exposure controls from the list above.

This control can be read by using the following command Syntax: sudo v4l2-ctl --device /dev/videoX --get-ctrl=<control>

Example Stream

The following screenshots are showing the difference between different exposure settings on a camera sensor that is connected via CSI on our JNX30M Carrierboard