Cannot get picture from Arducam 8MP IMX219 camera on Raspberry Pi OS bullseye

Raspberry Pi Cameras
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Hi everyone, I’m stuck with an Arducam 8MP Sony IMX219 camera module (Rev.D, SKU B0102) on my Raspberry Pi. Whenever I try to capture, it just throws “error get picture”. I’ve tried a few things already but it keeps coming back with the same message. Has anyone run into this?

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Sorry you’re hitting this. Can you tell me a bit more about your setup? Which Raspberry Pi OS version are you running, and what does the camera section of /boot/config.txt look like right now?

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I’m on Raspberry Pi OS bullseye. The module is the Arducam 8MP IMX219 with CS lens, Rev.D, SKU B0102. I also followed the official Raspberry Pi camera software getting-started guide, but still no picture. I’ve attached a couple of screenshots of what I’m seeing.

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Thanks. Let’s start with the overlay. If you have dtoverlay=imx219,cma-512 in /boot/config.txt, change it to just dtoverlay=imx219, then reboot and try capturing again.

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Done. I changed dtoverlay=imx219,cma-512 to dtoverlay=imx219 and rebooted. No change, still the same “error get picture”.

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Next, can we rule out the ribbon cable? If you have another cable available, swap it in and try again.

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I tested with two different cables. Both of them work fine with an OV5647 camera I have here, so the cable doesn’t seem to be the issue.

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Got it, that rules out the cable. Let’s pull a bug report so we can dig into this further. Reboot the Pi, then run these commands:

wget -O arducam-camera-bug-report https://github.com/ketai-dhr/arducam-camera-bug-report/releases/download/tools/arducam-camera-bug-report
chmod +x ./arducam-camera-bug-report
./arducam-camera-bug-report

This will create arducam-bug-report.txt in the current directory. Send that file over and we’ll take a look.

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I ran the tool and it generated arducam-bug-report.txt. Since it’s a file, I’ve sent it over through private message. Let me know if you need anything else.

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Thanks, I received it. After going through the report, and given that the overlay change and the cable swap both checked out, the report points to a hardware fault on the B0102 module itself. So this doesn’t look like a software or configuration issue — the unit appears to be defective.