NanoPi NEO Air and CAM500B

[george]

Hi there,

 

I recently purchased a NanoPi NEO Air from FriendlyElec with a CAM500B module.  It works alright with the mjpg-streamer and their provided Ubuntu Core.

 

I built an Arabian 5.27 Nano Pi Air Debian Jessie image with the default kernel and the device is no longer found.  I've forced the load of ov5640 and vfe_v4l2 in /etc/modules, but /dev/video0 isn't appearing.

 

The kernel log has this in it when the module is loaded:

 

[  116.519650] [OV5640@lex]init_sensor - frame_rate: 0, max_win_size: 11

 

If I boot back to Ubuntu Core via SD, the camera is back.

[Igor]

This camera is working / used to work in Armbian (legacy kernel only!) - I did tests by myself ... but IIRC right modules at right order is a problem. I don't recall which, perhaps @@lex know ?

[george]

Thanks for the reply.

 

I got the camera detected again.  It helps to change the /boot/bin/nanopiair.fex instead of /boot/bin/nanopineo.fex.

 

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