Thundercomm TurboX C8550 - Camera Setup

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This section will help you to connect properly the IMX577 camera in the board.

Connect the Camera

1. Make sure the board is powered off.

2. Set the DIP switch 4 from SW1300 to the ON position to switch the CSI3 to CAM1, as seen in Figure 3.

Figure 3. SW1300 switches configured for camera input

3. Plug the IMX577 camera into the CAM 1 port, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4. IMX577 camera connection

4. Power on the board.

5. Test the camera capture using any of the below options:

Test the Capture Using QIM SDK

Please refer to the GStreamer Pipelines section.

Test the Capture Using CamX HAL3 Application

1. Log in to the board:

adb root
adb shell

2. Run the CamX HAL3 CLI Application:

camx-hal3-test

3. Type on the app prompt the following command to configure a resolution of 4000x3000 in YUV420 raw format, with a JPEG compression format:

A:id=2,psize=4000x3000,pformat=yuv420,ssize=4000x3000,sformat=jpeg,zsl=1

Note

You will get a lot of warning messages, type Enter to see clearly the new prompt. Make sure you see the following message camera 2 take jpeg snapshot

If not, try restarting the application and start again from step 2. Sometimes the camera driver doesn't work well the first times.

4. Type on the app prompt the command to capture a snapshot:

S:1

5. Close the app by typing Q, or just pressing Ctrl + C.

6. You should see the captured image at /data/misc/camera/snapshot_w[4000]_h[3000]_id[XXXX]_stride[18167944]_slice[3008]_XXXXXXXX_XXXXXX.jpg.

7. Pull the image to your computer by running:

adb pull /data/misc/camera/snapshot_w[4000]_h[3000]_id[XXXX]_stride[18167944]_slice[3008]_XXXXXXXX_XXXXXX.jpg

USB Cameras

It is possible to connect a USB camera to the c8550 devkit, however, support for it in the kernel is not possible out of the box. One workaround solution for this is to connect your webcam using a USB-C adapter to the board.