Camera Driver Development Basics – MIPI and V4L2

Camera Driver Development Basics - MIPI and V4L2

If you want to engage in camera driver software development, what basic information is needed? This article summarizes it. From the perspective of independent components, it includes two parts: the sensor module and the core board; thus, the core of the driver software is to ensure the connection between the two. The common hardware interfaces … Read more

How to Debug Camera: Lighting Up a Sensor with RK3588

How to Debug Camera: Lighting Up a Sensor with RK3588

How to Determine if a Sensor is Lit Up? ① The sensor’s chip ID can be correctly read via I2C, meaning I2C communication is normal; ② Using the media-ctl tool, the pipeline can be viewed, showing the sensor’s specific resolution and format; ③ Using V4L2 tools to capture images without errors, with normal data output, … Read more

Using USB Camera with Orange Pi

Using USB Camera with Orange Pi

For detailed information, please refer to Section 3.13.6 of the “OrangePi_Zero2_H616_User_Manual_v4.0.pdf” regarding USB camera testing. Steps are as follows: 1.First, plug the USB camera into the USB port of the Orange Pi development board.2.Then, use the lsmod command to see that the kernel has automatically loaded the following module: orangepi@orangepi:~$ lsmod | grep uvcvideo | … Read more