MX8 Basler Camera
1 Introduction
The following instructions will allow you to add support for the Basler MIPI camera to your Yocto images.
This will allow you to stream images/video from a Basler camera(s) connected to a Variscite evaluation kit.
2 Download Variscite Yocto BSP
Please follow Build Yocto from source code.
Execute steps 1-4.3 to download the BSP sources, but don't start bitbake yet.
3 Download and install Basler meta layers
$ wget ftp://customerv:Variscite1@ftp.variscite.com/Basler/Software/basler-dart-bcon-mipi-imx8-cep_1.5.0-for-imx-4.14.98-2.0.0_ga_sumo.tar.gz $ mkdir basler-dart-bcon-mipi-imx8-cep_1.5.0-for-imx-4.14.98-2.0.0_ga_sumo $ tar xf basler-dart-bcon-mipi-imx8-cep_1.5.0-for-imx-4.14.98-2.0.0_ga_sumo.tar.gz -C basler-dart-bcon-mipi-imx8-cep_1.5.0-for-imx-4.14.98-2.0.0_ga_sumo $ mv basler-dart-bcon-mipi-imx8-cep_1.5.0-for-imx-4.14.98-2.0.0_ga_sumo/meta-basler* ../sources
4 Download and install Variscite kernel patches
$ wget ftp://customerv:Variscite1@ftp.variscite.com/Basler/Software/sumo-fsl-4.14.98-cep-1.5.0/meta-variscite-imx-basler.tar.gz $ tar xf meta-variscite-imx-basler.tar.gz -C ../sources/
5 Customize configuration files
5.1 Customize bblayers.conf
Add the following lines to conf/bblayers.conf
BBLAYERS += " ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-basler-imx8 "
BBLAYERS += " ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-basler-tools/meta-basler-common "
BBLAYERS += " ${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-variscite-imx-basler "
5.2 Customize local.conf
Add the following to conf/local.conf under your Yocto build directory:
Add Basler software and driver:
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " \
basler-camera-driver \
pylon \
python3-pypylon \
gentl-producer \
xauth \
"
MACHINE_ESSENTIAL_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "kernel-module-basler-camera-driver"
6 Build Yocto image
Continue following Build Yocto from source code from where you left off, to bitbake and install an image.
7 Running Basler camera application
Run the following commands at the shell prompt:
$ export DISPLAY=:0.0 $ /usr/bin/pylon
8 Using prebuilt recovery SD card images
Prebuilt recovery SD card image with Basler camera support can be downloaded from ftp://customerv:Variscite1@ftp.variscite.com/Basler/Software/DART-MX8M-MINI/sumo-fsl-4.14.98-mx8mm-v2.5