Quick-Start-Guide

Hardware Connection

Locate the camera connector (CSI). It’s on the side of the carrier board, opposite to the GPIO pins.
Pull up on the plastic edges of the camera port. Do it gently to avoid pulling it off.

plastic edges pulled up jetson nano camera connector csi

Push in the camera ribbon. Make sure the contacts are facing the heatsinks. Do not bend the flex cable, and make sure it’s firmly inserted into the bottom of the connector.

white camera ribbon cable contacts Ribbon Cable Contacts – 15pin-15pin

white cable silver contacts facing heatsinks Silver Contacts facing inside to the heatsinks

white cable silver ribbon cable inserted into the bottom of the connector Ribbon cable fully inserted to the bottom of the CSI connector

Push the plastic connector down. Do it while holding the flex cable until the connector is back in place.

Software

Install driver

For the imx219, you don't need to install any drive:

imx219 Board list:

Resolution	Camera Module
8MP	imx219

For the imx477, you need to install the following steps:

imx477 Board list:

Resolution	Camera Module
12MP	imx477

Step 1. Download the bash scripts

cd ~
wget https://github.com/ArduCAM/MIPI_Camera/releases/download/v0.0.3/install_full.sh

Step 2. Install the driver

chmod +x install_full.sh
./install_full.sh -m imx477

For the imx519, you need to install the following steps:

imx519 camera Board list:

Resolution	Camera Module
16MP	imx519

Step 1. Download the bash scripts

cd ~
wget https://github.com/ArduCAM/MIPI_Camera/releases/download/v0.0.3/install_full.sh

Step 2. Install the driver

chmod +x install_full.sh
./install_full.sh -m imx519

using Gstreamer access camera

1.View the Pixel format

v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext

2.Preview

If you want to use ssh connection, please export DISPLAY=:0

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw, format=GAY8, width=2560, height=800 ! videoconvert ! xvimagesink

format: Select the Pixel format (v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext — Pixel format).

width, height:Select the resolution (v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext — Size).

ximagesink: Preview. If does not work, please try ximagesink (xvimagesink), glimagesink, d3dvideosink (Windows).

3.Capture video

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! 'video/x-raw,format=(string)GRAY8,width=(int)2560,height=(int)800' ! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! omxh264enc ! 'video/x-h264, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! h264parse ! qtmux ! filesink location=test.mp4 -e

format: Select the Pixel format (v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext — Pixel format).

width, height:Select the resolution (v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext — Size).

4.Streaming

4.1 Streaming Sever

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw,format=GRAY8,width=2560,height=800 ! nvvidconv ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM), format=(string)I420' ! omxh264enc profile=high cabac-entropy-coding=true insert-sps-pps=true iframeinterval=60 ! 'video/x-h264, level=(string)4.2, stream-format=(string)byte-stream' ! tcpserversink host=0.0.0.0 port=5001 -v

4.2 Streaming Client

Please exit the virtual machine created with anacondac， or you can install conda install gst-libav -c conda-forge

gst-launch-1.0 -v tcpclientsrc host=0.0.0.0 port=5001 ! decodebin ! fpsdisplaysink sync=false text-overlay=false

or

gst-launch-1.0 -ve tcpclientsrc host=0.0.0.0 port=5001 ! decodebin ! autovideosink

autovideosink: Preview. If does not work, please try ximagesink (xvimagesink), glimagesink, d3dvideosink (Windows).