ASUS Tinker board FAQ

How to connect DSI and CSI cable to tinker board

 DSI, CSI cable can be use will no difference, those cable is the same.
 CSI connect to the middle of tinker board, please refer icon print on board as follows:

 DSI connect to the boundary of tinker board, please refer icon print on board as follows:

 DSI panel need extra 5V power. You can USB to supply, or thinker board can output 5V by

GPIO PIN, red line is for positive(+)，black line is for negative(-) , as follow.

 You need to notice the direction, when you install cable, the principle is: blue side is face

outside of the tinker board.

DSI:

CSI:

Camera Operation SOP

 Use Build-in Camera test tool for operation.
 Some operations need root permission to execute.
 Run “sudo su” in terminal command line before operation.

 Camera Preview:

Key-in

camHalTest.bin 0

or

camHalTest.bin 1

0 for show preview in DSI

1 for show preview in HDMI

Camera preview will be showed on specific display equipment.

 Capture

Each time executing Capture needs to run below cmd to setup environment.

sh /home/linaro/camera/copy_xml_file.sh

Then key-in capture cmd:

dumpsys

Five pictures will be taken and placed in /tmp/isptune with ppm filename extension.

Build-in file viewer is capable to open and view the image.

 Note:

1. All contents in /tmp/ are volatile and will disappear after reboot.

2. Disk space for /tmp/ is only ~300MB and one ppm image size is ~22MB, so it can

only save ~12 pictures. Make sure to move (mv) image files to external storage

before next Capture operation of stress test.