UC-B70 Rev B + UC-B54 Rev D -- arducam_read: Reading register 0x103 failed - Jetson Orin NX R36. 3

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Hi,

I am trying to get an Arducam Jetvariety camera working on a Jetson Orin NX and hitting an error that I haven’t been able to resolve. I am new to working with Arducam, but I haven’t found any other threads about this issue. Thanks in advance.

Hardware:

  • Camera sensor board: Arducam UC-B54 Rev D
  • Camera FPGA board: Arducam UC-B70 Rev B
  • Ribbon cable: Arducam UC-376 (22-pin to 15-pin)
  • Jetson module: NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX
  • Carrier board: Seeed Studio
  • Connection: CSI ribbon into CAM0

Software:

  • JetPack / L4T: R36 Release 3.0 (R36.3)
  • Kernel: 5.15.136-tegra
  • Arducam driver installed: arducam-nvidia-l4t-kernel-t234-nx-5.15.136-tegra-36.3.0-20240521161750_arm64.deb
  • Overlay selected: tegra234-p3767-camera-p3768-arducam-dual.dtbo (only Arducam option that was provided to me after running /opt/arducam/jetson-io/jetson-io.py)

Troubleshooting I have tried:

  1. Installed the Arducam Jetvariety driver .deb from the arducam_links.txt file matching my exact kernel version
  2. Ran /opt/arducam/jetson-io/jetson-io.py and selected the Arducam dual overlay (only Arducam option that I could select)
  3. Rebooted many times!

Current result:
lsmod shows arducam_csi2 is loaded.

dmesg:
arducam-csi2 9-000c: arducam_read: Reading register 0x103 failed
arducam-csi2 9-000c: probe failed
arducam-csi2 9-000c: Failed to setup board.
arducam-csi2 10-000c: arducam_read: Reading register 0x103 failed
arducam-csi2 10-000c: probe failed
arducam-csi2 10-000c: Failed to setup board.

Manual i2ctransfer also fails:
$ sudo i2ctransfer -y 9 w2@0x0c 0x01 0x03 r1
Error: Sending messages failed: Remote I/O error

ls /dev/video* returns: No such file or directory

Some questions that I think would help:

  1. Is UC-B70 Rev B supported with this driver version and JetPack R36.3?
  2. What FPGA firmware version does UC-B70 Rev B require?
  3. Is there a specific overlay or driver for the UC-B70 + UC-B54 combination?
  4. Does the Seeed Studio carrier board prevent this camera from working/is there a workaround?

Thank you, and please let me know if I missed anything.