All white images on B0272 IMX477 autofocus on Bookworm

grunkyb · April 2, 2024, 11:46am

I’m using an Arducam 12MP 477P Autofocus High Quality Camera for Raspberry Pi (SKU: B0272) purchased from UCTRONICS in the past month. It is installed on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running Bookworm.

The problem: saved images are all white.

Any suggestions?

What works

Other CSI-2 cameras, including a native HQ camera, a v2 camera, and a v3 camera.
I can see previews from this module using rpicam-vid and rpicam-still using the --qt-preview option
I can set the lens position using i2cset -y 10 ## ## where ## are 8-bit integers
I can see the camera using rpicam-hello —list-cameras and I get this output

Available cameras
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0 : imx477 [4056x3040 12-bit RGGB] (/base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx477@1a)
    Modes: 'SRGGB10_CSI2P' : 1332x990 [120.05 fps - (696, 528)/2664x1980 crop]
           'SRGGB12_CSI2P' : 2028x1080 [50.03 fps - (0, 440)/4056x2160 crop]
                             2028x1520 [40.01 fps - (0, 0)/4056x3040 crop]
                             4056x3040 [10.00 fps - (0, 0)/4056x3040 crop]

What does not work

Saved images are all white when saved as either BMP or PNG
Custom dtoverlay from the quick start guide compiles with warning, system hangs while booting when trying to load it
Arducam’s libcamera does not find the correct driver (GitHub says it’s not needed anymore)
No custom tuning file exists (imx477_af.json)

System configuration

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B+
Hardware revision: a020d3
OS version codename: bookworm
Kernel version: Linux ledpi 6.6.20+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.20-1+rpt1 (2024-03-07) aarch64 GNU/Linux
Running headless, connected by VNC through wireless or ethernet connection
Firmware configuration (in /boot/firmware/config.txt)
- dtparam=i2c_arm=on
- dtparam=i2c_vc=on (no difference without this line)
- camera_auto_detect=0 (required to detect camera with manual dtoverlay)
- dtoverlay=imx477,vcm (required to detect camera)

grunkyb · April 3, 2024, 10:41am

Here’s an illustration of the issue.

This is how the preview looks, along with info text showing the gains and exposure values (rpicam-hello -t 0 --qt-preview --info-text 'AG %ag DG %dg RG %rg BG %bg exp %exp'):

grunkyb · April 3, 2024, 10:41am

This is an image capture using these gain values (rpicam-still -n -o test.jpg --gain 8.0 --awbgains 2.64,1.61 --shutter 33000) (it’s all white):

grunkyb · April 3, 2024, 10:42am

Here’s what I get setting the gain to 1.0 (rpicam-still -n -o test.jpg --gain 1.0 --awbgains 2.64,1.61 --shutter 33000) (it’s noisy, but at least there’s an image!):

Higher gain values first produce some magenta hues in the overexposed areas, then it goes all white again.

@Edward is there updated firmware for this camera/sensor? Or could you post the imx477_af.json file here, if that would fix the issue? 谢谢！

Dion · April 7, 2024, 2:48am

Hi,
It seems that you have not followed the link below:
https://docs.arducam.com/Raspberry-Pi-Camera/Motorized-Focus-Camera/Quick-Start-Guide/IMX477-Motorized-Focus-Camera/#software
If you have installed the libcamera from the Arducam branch, you will find the imx477_af.json is placed under the path /usr/share/libcamera/ipa/rpi/vc4

grunkyb · April 8, 2024, 9:12am

Hi @Dion,

Thanks for the reply. I did follow those steps.

The first steps on that page creates a dtoverlay file that either doesn’t load or stops the boot cycle.

Here’s the contents of /usr/share/libcamera/ipa/rpi/vc4 after following the second set of instrucitons:

pi@ledpi:/usr/share/libcamera/ipa/rpi/vc4$ ls -la
total 500
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr  5 11:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Mar 15 15:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33093 Feb 15 12:39 imx219.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31118 Feb 15 12:39 imx219_noir.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7223 Feb 15 12:39 imx290.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19866 Feb 15 12:39 imx296.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9304 Feb 15 12:39 imx296_mono.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19322 Feb 15 12:39 imx378.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33294 Feb 15 12:39 imx477.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32120 Feb 15 12:39 imx477_noir.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18317 Feb 15 12:39 imx477_scientific.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19322 Feb 15 12:39 imx519.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29503 Feb 15 12:39 imx708.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33172 Feb 15 12:39 imx708_noir.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29859 Feb 15 12:39 imx708_wide.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29526 Feb 15 12:39 imx708_wide_noir.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33129 Feb 15 12:39 ov5647.json
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16540 Feb 15 12:39 ov64a40.json
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19434 Feb 15 12:39 se327m12.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15198 Apr  5 11:27 test.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3737 Feb 15 12:39 uncalibrated.json

Output from the installation

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pi@ledpi:~$ chmod +x install_pivariety_pkgs.sh
pi@ledpi:~$ ./install_pivariety_pkgs.sh -p libcamera
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Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
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Hardware Revision: a020d3
Kernel Version: 6.6.20+rpt-rpi-v8
OS Codename: bookworm
ARCH: aarch64
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grunkyb · April 8, 2024, 9:13am

If I use sudo dpkg -i ./libcamera-ipa_0.2.0+rpt20240227-1_arm64.deb (the file downloaded by the script), then I get the correct json files installed:

pi@ledpi:/usr/share/libcamera/ipa/rpi/vc4$ ls -la
total 604
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr  8 10:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Mar 15 15:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15165 Feb 27 05:33 arducam_64mp.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25182 Feb 27 05:33 imx219_af.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33093 Feb 27 05:33 imx219.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31118 Feb 27 05:33 imx219_noir.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7223 Feb 27 05:33 imx290.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19866 Feb 27 05:33 imx296.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9304 Feb 27 05:33 imx296_mono.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19322 Feb 27 05:33 imx378.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26402 Feb 27 05:33 imx477_af.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33294 Feb 27 05:33 imx477.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32120 Feb 27 05:33 imx477_noir.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18317 Feb 27 05:33 imx477_scientific.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20549 Feb 27 05:33 imx519.json
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19434 Feb 27 05:33 se327m12.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15198 Apr  5 11:27 test.json
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grunkyb · April 8, 2024, 9:23am

So, the solution is to download your debian package that contains the correct tuning files, as describe in my previous post.

@Dion please could you update the instructions on that page?

Dion · April 9, 2024, 6:53am

Hi @grunkyb
If we review the file install_pivariety_pkgs.sh, we will find that the package libcamera-ipa_0.2.0+rpt20240227-1_arm64.deb is installed when we run the command ./install_pivariety_pkgs.sh -p libcamera_dev. I suspect that you have not managed to install the libcamera_dev before so the imx477_af.json is not added under the path /usr/share/libcamera/ipa/rpi/vc4.