Armbian LCD and Camera

Guide on how to get the camera and the LCD working on the SOPINE on Armbian.

LCD

• DD the Armbian SOPINE image to the microSD Card and run on the board
• Login through the terminal
• vi /boot/armbianEnv.txt (Change off to on): pine64_lcd=on
• vi /etc/modules (Add following line): gt9xxf_ts
• reboot

Then the display will be on LCD and not HDMI

Camera

1. DD the Armbian SOPINE image to the microSD Card and run on the board

2. Login through the terminal

3. Install Ubuntu Xenial Mate with ayufan’s script

   cd ~
   wget https://github.com/longsleep/build-pine64-image/raw/master/simpleimage/platform-scripts/install_desktop.sh
   chmod +x install_desktop.sh
   ./install_desktop.sh mate
   

4. vi /boot/armbianEnv.txt (Set to “s5k4ec” or “ov5640” depending on your camera module)

   camera_type=s5k4ec
   

5. vi /etc/modules (Add the following depending on your camera_type “s5k4ec” or “ov5640” above. Note that “vfe_v4l2” has a small letter ‘L'2 not 12)

   s5k4ec
   vfe_v4l2
   

6. reboot

7. Following https://github.com/avafinger/pine64_camera (Change “s5k4ec” to “ov5640” depending on your camera module)

   apt-get update
   apt-get upgrade
   apt-get remove --purge guvcview
   apt-get remove --purge libguvcview-1.1-1
   modprobe -r -f vfe_v4l2
   modprobe -r -f s5k4ec
   modprobe s5k4ec
   modprobe vfe_v4l2
   ls /dev/video0
   dmesg | grep OK
   sudo apt-get install libmp3lame-dev libx264-dev libpulse-dev libv4l-dev libsdl1.2-dev libgtk-3-dev portaudio19-dev libpng12-dev libavcodec-dev libavutil-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libpulse-dev libgsl0-dev libv4l-dev
   cd ~
   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/avafinger/pine64_camera/master/libguvcview-1.2-1_2.0.3%2Bdebian-1_arm64.deb
   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/avafinger/pine64_camera/master/guvcview_2.0.3%2Bdebian-1_arm64.deb
   dpkg -i libguvcview-1.2-1_2.0.3+debian-1_arm64.deb
   dpkg -i guvcview_2.0.3+debian-1_arm64.deb
   

8. For testing, use Xenial Mate -> Applications -> Sound & Video -> guvcview OR command line

   guvcview -d /dev/video0 -x 640x480 -r sdl -f yu12
   guvcview -d /dev/video0 -x 640x480 -r sdl -f nv12