Camarray Firmware Information

Introduction

This page is mainly designed to help users identify the firmware information of different multi-camera kits to solve the problem of using them on some specific JetPack versions/development boards.

About the Firmware of Arducam Multi-Camera Kit

About Arducam Jetvariety Multi-Camera Kit

Note

The Arducam Jetvariety multi-camera series is not limited by the JetPack system version, and all versions can be used normally.(On the version driven by Arducam).

SKU	Sensor
B0266	OV9281
B0267	OV9281
B0263	OV9281
B0264	OV2311
B0331	OV9782

Latest Firmware Date

Tip

The products (with SKU) listed in the following list have compatibility issues in L4t 35.x Jetpack5.x and above versions, you need to meet the firmware version date requirements(no early than the date below) in the table to work normally in L4t 35.x Jetpack5.x and above versions (otherwise you can only use them on previous versions):

SKU	Sensor	Latest Firmware Date
1x2 Dual Camera Kit
B0265N	IMX477	2023.03.07
2x2 Quad-Camera Kit
B0388	IMX519	2023.02.03
B0396	IMX219
B0397	IMX477

How to Check the Firmware Information

Note

Currently Supported Hardware Platforms: NVIDIA Jetson Nano, NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX, NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX. (The system versions supported by different hardware platforms is different. For details, please check: Arducam Cameras for NVIDIA Jetson)
About Using Problem: Please first check if the firmware version of the CamArray HAT is the latest version.

Check the firmware information:

Download the library

git clone https://github.com/edward-ardu/tools

Use the template

python3 Detect_HAT_Firmware_Date.py -y <i2c-bus>

[Example]

For NVIDIA Jetson: Set i2c bus, for A02 is 6, for B01 is 7 or 8, for Jetson Xavier NX it is 9 and 10. Xavier NX csi port 0:

python3 Detect_HAT_Firmware_Date.py -y 9

Then there will be a date returned:

If it returns 2000-0-0 or returns some weird date then it is not the latest version: