1. Camera Driver Installation

Install the OS

Download the Jetson Nano SD card Image R3231 for example according to the instruction Getting Started With Jetson Nano Developer Kit. You can skip this step if you have already made your SD card.

1.Check system version

#Check the L4T version

cat /etc/nv_tegra_release

#Check the kernel version

uname -a

2.Download Arducam driver package

Open the link below:

https://github.com/ArduCAM/MIPI_Camera/tree/master/Jetson/Jetvariety/driver

NOTE

The new version has been moved to the following link:
https://github.com/ArduCAM/MIPI_Camera/releases

Depending on the hardware platform and system version currently in use, find the corresponding driver.

Download it and put it under the root directory.

3.Install Arducam driver package

Then type the following command to install the V4L-utils The driver package name (.deb) should be changed according to the actual download.

sudo dpkg -i arducam-nvidia-l4t-kernel_4.9.140-32.4.3-20200716095813_arm64.deb

4.Install V4L-utils package

sudo apt-get install v4l-utils

Uninstallation

If you want to roll back to original Jetson Nano camera driver, just run the following command to uninstall the Arducam driver, a reboot is also required.

sudo dpkg -r arducam-nvidia-l4t-kernel

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