MX8 e-con Camera

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DART-MX8M-MINI e-con Systems Camera

Introduction

The following instructions will allow you to add support for the e-con Systems MIPI camera VCAM-AR1335E to your Yocto images.
This will allow you to stream images/video from a e-con Systems camera VCAM-AR1335E connected to a Variscite evaluation kit.

Download the Variscite Yocto BSP

Please follow Build Yocto from source code.
Execute steps 1-4.3 to download the BSP sources, but don't run bitbake yet.

Download and install the e-con meta layers

$ git clone https://github.com/varigit/meta-econ-imx -b dunfell ../sources/meta-econ-imx

Customize configuration files

Customize bblayers.conf

Add the following lines to conf/bblayers.conf under your Yocto build directory:

BBLAYERS += " ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-econ-imx "


Build a Yocto image

Continue following Build Yocto from source code from where you left off, to bitbake and install an image.

Testing the e-con Systems camera

Follow the DART-MX8M-MINI Camera page to test the camera.

Prebuilt recovery SD card image

A prebuilt recovery SD card image with e-con camera support can be downloaded from:

https://variscite-public.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/e-con/Software/DART-MX8M-MINI/dunfell-fslc-5.4.x/dart-mx8mm-econ-recovery-sd.v80.img.gz

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