New Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm and 64mp Arducam

[hikinghack]

The new Raspberry Pi OS just came out and I am setting up a clean installation. Is there anything special i need to do to get the 64mp camera working on it?

[Dion]

Hi,
We have not released the camera driver for Bookworm so far. You still need to use Bullseye OS now.

[blackketter]

Can you share an expected release date for camera drivers for Bookworm? Raspberry Pi 5 only supports this new version of the OS.

[hikinghack]

seconding if you have any details on when we might be able to use the 64mp with the pi5

[Dion]

Hi,
We may release the support for Pi 5 on the end of Dec…

[hikinghack]

cool thanks for letting us know!

[warwound]

As a Pi 5 owner with a Hawkeye 64mp camera I am looking forward to the Hawkeye driver being released.
Can I ask how I can be notified or how I can find out when it’s available?
Will it be announced somewhere that I can follow?

Thanks.

[Dion]

Hi
You can stay tuned to this post and I will update the status for compatibility at the first time.

Pi 5(Bookworm OS) compatibility with Arducam camera

Hi, That’s true. We currently do not have support for the IMX519 camera driver on Bookworm OS. However, if you manually enable the camera by adding dtoverlay=imx519 under [all] in the config file, you will be able to see a preview window. Please note that autofocus functionality is not available at this time. We are actively working on making the IMX519 PDAF compatibility available on Bookworm, and we expect to release it by the end of this week or next week. Please stay tuned to this thread f…

[hikinghack]

check it out! @henri made it happen:

Raspberry Pi 5 and Arducams

I just tested RPI5 8GB bookworm LITE with dual arducam-64mp hawkeyes. The capture speed with max res 9152x6944 using libcamera-jpeg is ~3 seconds vs 5-7 seconds on RPI4. on RPI4 it was not possible to use two cameras on one device at max res due to some IO issue couldnt make some buffer so i had to have two RPI4 one for each camera. RPI5 doesent have such issue. the commands i had to run first: wget -O install_pivariety_pkgs.sh https://github.com/ArduCAM/Arducam-Pivariety-V4L2-Driver/release…

[CharDel]

PI5 : works well with these 2 cameras.

wget -O install_pivariety_pkgs.sh https://github.com/ArduCAM/Arducam-Pivariety-V4L2-Driver/releases/download/install_script/install_pivariety_pkgs.sh
chmod +x install_pivariety_pkgs.sh
./install_pivariety_pkgs.sh -p libcamera_dev
./install_pivariety_pkgs.sh -p libcamera_apps

Add to: /boot/config.txt

dtoverlay=imx519,cam0
dtoverlay=arducam-64mp,cam1

[alex.c.241534]

Guess raspberry pi 4 users are out of luck then. This camera absolutely does not work on bookworm on raspberry pi 4. It won’t even work with the basic libcamera-still -t 0 -k command.

[alex.c.241534]

I highly doubt that this is actually true, because Bookworm moved /boot/config.txt to /boot/firmware/config.txt. These instructions are wrong.

[hikinghack]

i just posted a reply on the Full Walkthrough: Setup RPI4 take 64mp photos and Control Focus - #2 by Edward where i totally use a 64 mp on a completely fresh install of bookworm on rpi4 as of march 01. totally works!