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Radxa Camera 8M

Radxa CM5 IO Camera0 interface, using reverse 15pin cable, compatible cameras are:
Radxa Camera 8M, OKDO 5MP, RPI Camera V13, RPI Camera V2.

Take connecting Radxa Camera 8M as an example:​

Camera-8M installation

  • Prepare the Radxa Camera 8M and connect it to the Camera 0 connector of the Radxa CM5 IO board via the FPC cable.

  • Open the Kconsole terminal via the Application Launcher in the lower left corner and run the rsetup command:

radxa@radxa-cm5-io:~$ rsetup
[Note].
  1. Please enable the [] Enable Radxa Camera 8M 219 on CSI0 item Overlay.
  2. Exit reboot after [*] Enable Radxa Camera 8M 219 on CSI0 is successfully displayed for the configuration to take effect.

Testing the Radxa Camera 8M​

You can also open the camera preview using the terminal command.

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video11 io-mode=4 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=NV12,width=1920,height=1080 ! xvimagesink

Take a picture with the following command.

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video11 io-mode=4 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=NV12,width=1920,height=1080 ! jpegenc ! multifilesink location=file.name.jpg

Take a video with the following command:

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=512 device=/dev/video11 io-mode=4 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw, format=NV12, width=1920, height=1080, framerate=30/1 ! tee name=t ! queue ! mpph264enc ! queue ! h264parse ! mpegtsmux ! filesink location=/home/radxa/file.name.mp4