ArduCam B0353 Pivariety Color Global Shutter Camera Module for Raspberry Pi User Guide

INTRODUCTION

About Arducam
Arducam has been a professional designer and
manufacturer of SPI, MIPI, DVP and USB cameras
since 2012. We also offer customized turnkey design and manufacturing solution services for customers who want their products to be unique.

• About This Pivariety Camera
  Arducam Pivariety is a Raspberry Pi camera solution to take the advantage of using its hardware ISP functions. Pivariety camera modules make users get better performance and a wider variety of camera, lens options. In other words, Pivariety breakthrough the limitations of the closed-source official supported camera driver and camera modules (V1/ V2/HQ).
  Pivariety camera modules made it possible to be well-tuned ISP with Auto Exposure, Auto White Balance, Auto Gain Control, Lens Shading Correction, etc. This series of cameras use the libcamera framework, they can’t be supported by Raspistill, and the way to access the camera is libcamera SDK (for C++)/libcamera-still/libcamera-vid/Gstreamer.
  This Pivariety AR0234 Color Global Shutter Camera is migrated Raspberry Pi Cameras, which eliminate rolling shutter artifacts to shoot high speed moving objects in color sharp images.

SPECS

SOFTWARE

1. Driver Installation
   
   
   press y to reboot
   NOTE: The kernel driver installation only supported by the latest version 5.10. For other kernel versions, please go to our Doc page: https://www.arducam.com/docs/cameras-for-raspberrypi/pivariety/how-to-install-kernel-driver-forpivariety-camera/#2-how-to-build-raspberry-pikernel-driver-for-arducam-pivariety-camera
   You can also visit this doc page to refer to thehardware connection: https://www.arducam.com/ docs/cameras-for-raspberry pi/pivariety/pivarietyar0234-2-3mp-color-global shutter-cameramodule/
2. Test the Driver and Camera
   After you’ve finished the hardware assembly and driver installation, you can test whether the camera is detected and working.
   • View the Status of Driver and Camera
     It will display arducam-pivariety if driver installed successfully and firmware version if the camera can be detected.
     The display should be probe failed if the camera can’t be detected, you might have to check the ribbon connection, then reboot the Raspberry Pi.
   • View the Video Node
     
     The Pivariety camera modules are emulated as the standard video device under /dev/video* node, so you can use the ls command for listing the contents in the /dev folder.
     
     Since the camera module is V4L2 compliant, you can use the V4l2 controls to list the supported color space, resolutions, and frame rates.
     
     NOTE: Although V4L2 interface is supported, only RAW
     format images can be obtained, without ISP support.
3. Official Libcamera App Installation
   
   
   
4. Capture Image and Record Video
   • Capture image
     For example, preview for 5s and save the image named test.jpg
     
   • Record video
     For example, record a H.264 10s video with the frame size 1920W × 1080H
     
   • Plugin gstreamer installation
     Install gstreamer
     
     
     Preview
     
     

TROUBLESHOOT

1. Cannot Allocate Memory
   
   Edit /boot/cmdline.txt and add cma=400M at the end More details: https://lists.libcamera.org/pipermail/libcamera-devel/2020-December/015838.html
2. The Image Displays Color Dots Add code –denoise cdn_off at the end of command
   
   More details: https://github.com/raspberrypi/libcameraapps/issues/19
3.  Failed to Install the Driver
   Please check the kernel version, we only provide the driver for the latest official kernel version image when this Pivariety camera released.
   Note: If you want to compile the kernel driver by yourself,
   please refer to Doc page: https://www.arducam.com/docs/cameras-for-raspberry-pi/pivariety/how-to-installkernel-driver-for-pivariety-camera/
4. Failed to import fd 18
   
   If you find the same error, you may make the wrong selection about the graphics driver. Please follow Arducam Doc page to select the correct graphics driver.
5. Switch to the native camera
   (raspistill etc.) Edit the file of /boot/config.txt, make dtoverlay=arducam change to # dtoverlay=arducam
   After the modification is completed, you need to reboot the Raspberry Pi.
   

NOTE: This camera module support trigger via an external signal, please refer to the Doc page to get the instruction https://www.arducam.com/docs/cameras-for-raspberrypi/pivariety/accessar02342-3mp-color-global-shutter-camera-usingexternal-trigger-snapshot-mode/
If you need our help or want to customize other models of Pi cameras, feel free to contact us via
support@arducam.com

Documents / Resources

	ArduCam B0353 Pivariety Color Global Shutter Camera Module for Raspberry Pi [pdf] User Guide B0353, Pivariety Color Global Shutter Camera Module for Raspberry Pi
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References

• User Manual