Unable to install ov64a40 kernel driver

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  1. Where did you get the camera module(s)?
    Arducam

  2. Model number of the product(s)?
    OwlSight OV64A40

  3. What hardware/platform were you working on?
    Raspberry Pi 4

  4. Instructions you have followed. (link/manual/etc.)
    64MP OwlSight - Arducam Wiki

  5. Problems you were having?
    Attempting to execute ./install_pivariety_pkgs.sh -p ov64a40_kernel_driver fails:

2023-12-22 10:59:35 (218 KB/s) - ‘ov64a40_kernel_driver_links.txt’ saved [534/534]
./install_pivariety_pkgs.sh: line 543: [: too many arguments

As a result the dtoverlay for the camera won’t work and I can’t use libcamera to access the camera.

  1. What help do you need?
    How can I get this kernel installed
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Same issues here

  1. Where did you get the camera module(s)?
    Directly from the Arducam store

  2. Model number of the product(s)?
    OwlSight OV64A40

  3. What hardware/platform were you working on?
    Pi Compute Module 4 + Waveshare IO Base C board.

  4. Instructions you have followed. (link/manual/etc.)
    64MP OwlSight - Arducam Wiki

  5. Problems you were having?
    ./install_pivariety_pkgs.sh: line 543: [: too many arguments

Huge letdown by Arducam. The Hawkeye was painful and never worked as advertised. Now i can’t get the owlsight to work And your forum post on it went unanswered for the last 18 days so I don’t have a lot of hope.

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I was using Bullseye previously because the Hawkeye wouldn’t work on Bookworm, but I moved to Bookworm and the install process for the Owlsight worked. I’m not sure if the Hawkeye will still work though.

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Hi,
Hawkeye is able to use on Bookworm. You may miss some steps.

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Hey mate,

It looks like there is a hold up on the software being merged into the main library.

I can see a PR on hold here: Add support for Arducam OV64A40 64MPx camera module by jmondi · Pull Request #84 · raspberrypi/libcamera · GitHub

I am in the same boat as you right now. I can’t use the cameras on RPi5 without the software being fixed up. Feel free to put some pressure on in the Pull Request like I have.

There is also the small issue around the config.txt file moving. I explained that over here: Change in /boot/config.txt to /boot/firmware/config.txt · Issue #48 · ArduCAM/Arducam-Pivariety-V4L2-Driver · GitHub

I manually installed the bits needed from the install script. Happy to be more specific if you need.

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I ran into this exact error, I fixed it by changing line 543 to:

if [ "$VERSION" = '6.1.21' ] && [ "$package" = "64mp" ]; then

You may need to fix the syntax as necessary, look at the quote structure.

The online documentation stops there, seemingly assuming the driver was installed. But I saw that all it did was download a .txt file with some links, so I downloaded the driver (your driver link will differ):

wget https://github.com/ArduCAM/Arducam-Pivariety-V4L2-Driver/releases/download/Arducam_pivariety_v4l2_v1.0/imx708_b0311_kernel_driver.tar.gz

Then I expanded the tar.gz file, went into the Release folder, and ran the install_driver.sh script. Arducam is now working.