📷 Waveshare IMX219-160IR Camera for Jetson Nano: Infrared Night Vision, High Resolution of 3280 × 2464, 8 Megapixels, Wide 160° FOV, IMX219 Sensor Ideal for Face Recognition, Road Mark Detection, and License Plate Recognition Review

This camera and its IR LEDs worked right away on my Jetson Nano. I tested it in Jupyter with the following code (from the Nvidia forums): import traitletimport ipywidgets.widgets as widgetsfrom IPython.display import displayfrom jetbot import Camera, bgr8_to_jpegcamera = Camera.instance(width=224, height=224)image = widgets .Image (format='jpeg', width=224, height=224) # this width and height do not have to match cameracamera_link = traitlets.dlink((camera, 'value'), (image, 'value')…

looks well built and in good condition but after digging around I've learned that you need to be sure you are using a real PI module with the imx219 as it contains a cryptographic chip. The Pi Foundation has locked the drivers in such a way that they only boot the camera if the chip is found in all modules except the compute units. This camera doesn't have a chip so it won't be recognized and won't even work on the Pi. I learned it the hard way.

This camera and its IR LEDs worked right away on my Jetson Nano. I tested it in Jupyter with the following code (from the Nvidia forums): widgetsfrom IPython.display import displayfrom jetbot import Camera, bgr8_to_jpegcamera = Camera.instance(width=224, height=224)image = widgets.Image(format=' jpeg' , width=224, height=224) # this width and height does not have to match the camera camera_link = traitlets.dlink((camera, 'value'), (image, 'value'), transform=bgr8_to_jpeg)display( pictures )

looks well assembled and arrived in good condition but after digging I found out you need to be sure you are using a real PI module with imx219 as it contains a cryptographic chip. The Pi Foundation has locked the drivers in such a way that they only boot the camera if the chip is found in all modules except the compute units. This camera doesn't have a chip so it won't be recognized and won't even work on the Pi. I learned it the hard way.

This camera is absolute rubbish. The quality is not what they advertise. I can't render my face at 12" at 720. At first I thought it might be the missing air filter, but after I added the filter it was still nonsense. I bought this for face recognition and if I can't recognize the face I doubt the Jetson Nano can. Besides, it gets hot. I mean almost on fire. As soon as you switch on the Jetson, the IR emitter gets so hot that you cannot touch it. Save money and buy something else. It's complete