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by dheera 2654 days ago
This. And all of the third party camera solutions for TX2 cost $500+ when equivalent USB cameras with the same sensor cost $50. They really need to get their act together and sell some NVIDIA-sanctioned camera solutions at scale, and at price points similar to Raspberry Pi cameras.

A lot of third party carrier boards also have a complete sh_tshow of connectors. Auvidea's boards, for example, ship with a Raspberry Pi camera connector, but Raspberry Pi NoIR cameras don't have TX2 drivers, and there are hardly any other cameras that ship with that connector.

Seriously, NVIDIA: Please sell a TX2 devkit that has six non-weird 2-lane CSI connectors and some IMX290 or AR0521 or any other commonly-used robotics sensors for $100 each that plug in and "just work". It would make a lot of people happy to have something to at least start with, and pave the way for third party options to follow the same form factor, connectors, pinouts, board sizes, and so forth.
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remyM 2654 days ago
They've actually fixed this hopefully this time around.

According to their blog post it actually has driver support for the RPi CM2 8MP (IMX219) and they'll be releasing their own Nvidia-sanctioned cameras available from their partners.

It should hopefully just work. No lowlight options at this time however, which means external CCTV is out of the question :(

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dheera 2653 days ago
Cool. Well hopefully some third parties will now create cameras all in the same form factor with the same pinout so that the choice of carrier board and camera can be independently made.
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0xfaded 2653 days ago
I'm actually hoping that 3rd party carrier boards standardize on the weird 6 csi connector thing, and was a little saddened to see that nvidia's devkit for the nano doesn't use it :(.

I bought a tx2 carrier from connecttech, and half their tx2 boards use a 30 pin connector used by leopard imaging, and the other half use the same ribbon connector that the nvidia devkit uses for its camera. I have $600 worth of camera which doesn't fit the carrier I chose ::face-palm::.

Their xavier carrier, http://connecttech.com/product-category/form-factors/nvidia-..., uses the same connector as the tx2 and xavier dev kits.

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