reCamera Getting Started
reCamera is a combination of a processor and a camera sensor.
This combination makes reCamera a standalone system that can handle basic detection and control tasks on its own.
Set up the working environment
USB NET setup
To use USB networking, we enabled UsbNcm and DHCP by default on the system.
UsbNcm is driver-free on Linux, macOS, and the latest Windows systems. You can log in to
recamera's terminal directly using ssh [email protected] ,passwd = recamera .
Windows
Make sure the Ncm driver is correctly installed on your computer, as shown in the image. You can check this by going to: Device Manager -> Network adapters.
If your machine does not have this driver, follow the steps below to install Ncm.
Install NCM for windows
step1:
Press win+x and select Device Manager.
Find the unrecognized device in other devices and select Update driver.
step2:
Select Browse my computer for drivers
step3::
Select Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer
step4:Selet Microsoft -> UsbNcm Host Device then click Next.
step5:When the alert bar pops up, select Yes
step6:Enter ping 192.168.42.1 in a terminal window.
The following output shows that you have successfully connected to the reCamera.
Linux
No extra setup, just plug in a USB cable. Enter ifconfig, and you will see the usb1 network adapter. For example: 192.168.42.89. The ip of the device is 192.168.42.1
MacOS
Check the usb network adapter in System Settings -> Network. The ip of the device is 192.168.42.1
Computer network error
If your Windows 10 System computer has network access issues after using the USB network of reCamera.
Press win+x click Control Panel. Select All Control Panel Items -> Network Connections.
Right mouse click UsbNcm Host Device. Select Properties -> TCP/IPv4 -> Properties -> Advanced -> Uncheck Automatic metric -> Enter 255 in the Interface metric field -> click ok
Then your network is back up.
If your computer is running MacOS. You only need to set the priority of the computer network card UsbNcm network card last
System update and upgrade
You can check out the latest version of the reCamera OS here.
Manually update the latest OTA firmware:
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh latest https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/reCamera-OS/releases/latest
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh start
Manually update the specified version of OTA firmware. You can also update the system version in your branch.
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh latest https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/reCamera-OS/releases/download/0.0.5/sg2002_reccamera_emmc_md5sum.txt #Replace it with your branch link
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh start
Update the firmware manually using the local ota package.
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh start sg2002_reCamera_0.0.5_emmc_ota.zip
You can change system files to be readable or writable by typing rootfs_rw on/off.
Manually restore factory Settings.
/mnt/system/upgrade.sh recovery
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