CSI OV5647 Camera on Rock 3A

#1

Hi, everyone,
I have an CSI OV5647 Camera for Raspberry Pi. If possible, I’d like to use it on Rock 3A. Please provide me with any information on this issue.
Thanks.

#2

You are not alone.

Here are some Infos that might be helpful:

  • there is no support for OV5647 on “legacy” kernel, regarding some features, 3A,ISP,etc,etc…
  • there is some support for OV5647 on the mainline kernel, despite everyone saying otherwise, partial support but there is. Maybe that work landed on 5.16 for the rk35x, I haven’t looked at mara’s kernel to check it.
  • Radxa doc about the MIPI CSI seems to be the same as Rock Pi 4, so there is a chance it can work, i might be wrong.

I have seen support for GC2053 and x-chip XC7160 sensor on rk356x, but the configuration is for 4 lanes, i think.

Rock 3a hw revision is at 1.3, don’t know if they changed / fixed something on MIPI csi side.
Radxa knows their hardware, i don’t think is hard for them to give an initial dts configuration and let the users try to find ways to make it work, maybe this will bring a lot of support tickets for them and they are not willing to handle, it is just an opinion.

But i think Radxa should give some MIPI CSI road map for the Rock 3A, i would like to hear about that.

#3

Thank you for your comment. I hope the Radxa add this item to their todo list so that many users would be happy.

#4

We’ve added this to our todo list now.

#5

Thank you very much, Jack. I’m looking forward to its release.

#6

请问下,现在有没有解决驱动问题,如果已经解决,请问如何启用该功能,有没有教程!

#7

Check the post by @avaf

#8

How was this solved? I am looking for support of this camera in rock-4b+

#9

In Rock3A you must edit /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf and add dtbo filename to overlay list, like this:

/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
…
fdtoverlays … /…path…/overlay/rock-3ab-rpi-camera-v1p3-ov5647.dtbo

NOTE: Valid for ov5647 camera

#10

As per your comment I added that line.

Not working,
bad instructions or could you add the additional steps for Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.19.193-47-rockchip-g0f91d24e217c aarch64)

#11

We released one ROCK 3A Debian11 OS. https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-3a/releases/download/b25/rock-3a_debian_bullseye_xfce_b25.img.xz

You can use rsetup to enable camera ov5647.

#12

hey @Stephen ! Thanks for the prompt reply.
After updating the ubuntu image and adding

“rock-3ab-rpi-camera-v2-imx219 rock-3ab-rpi-camera-v1p3-ov5647” in the /boot/uEnv.txt.

both camera’s were picked up in the Cheese app.
The issue with the ubuntu image is no gpu drivers in 4.19 kernel.

currently trying out the minimal image herehttps://github.com/qxhome/rk3568-kernel5.10-alldrivers/releases/tag/ubuntu22.04-kernel5.10-rk3568-rock3a-alldrivers-beta3
and installing ubuntu-desktop.

Are you familiar with this image?

#13

Hi, to use IMX219/OV5647 camera, please use ROCK 3A Debian11 OS with kernel 5.10.

I’m no familiar with this images.

#14

GPU support is quite crucial, does this Debian image have the panfrost drivers?

OK that’s a nope! LLVM renderer…You guys must dislike gpu huh!

#15

I am using CLI version of your ROCK 3A Debian bullseye.

Which option in rsetup is best for clone OV5647?

I have in rsetup:
[ ] Enable OKdo 5MP Camera
[ ] Enable Radxa Camera 8M
[ ] Enable Raspberry Pi Camera v1.3
[ ] Enable Raspberry Pi Camera v2

And I have tried all but am not getting detection.

With Okdo 5MP overlay, I heard IR clicks from the camera so have kept that one. With it fswebcam responds:
Error selecting input 0
VIDIOC_S_INPUT: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Is this related to this comment?:
https://forum.radxa.com/t/ov5647-camera-on-cm3-using-rpi-io-board/14619/2?u=allodyne
… because I have no idea how to do that :slight_smile:
Thanks!