D415 (or D435) with Raspberry Pi 4, will it work?
Has anyone used a D400-series camera with a Raspberry Pi 4, and are there any issues I should be aware of? From the specs it seems like the RPi4 should be able to capture full frame full rate RGB and D from the D400, and also send it out over the Ethernet.
I'm thinking of building a few rigs with a RPi4, D415, Power-over-ethernet shield and logic to drive the sync pulse from the RPi4. Then I would have a setup that needs only a single cable (ethernet carrying power) to the camera rig, and if I sync the Raspberry Pis with PTP I could capture volumetric video with a setup that doesn't have cables all over the place...
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At the moment there are a number of reports of Rpi4 having problems with RealSense. Until those issues are resolved, it is difficult to recommend the Rpi4 for use with the 400 Series cameras.
The new FRAMOS D435e RealSense camera can use ethernet instead of USB and has the ability to use a 12V-24V power connector for triggering, though it does have a price premium of $1100 as it is aimed at industrial users.
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Seems like there is a well defined (although lengthy) process to get it going here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIBUntnxp8
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Billyvonruple Thanks for the video! The RealSense team have recently improved Pi 4 support further by updating the Pi 4 Raspbian Buster installation script in SDK version 2.34.0 so that it runs cleanly.
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MartyX Grover where can I go at finding the script for the Pi 4?
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I believe that the updated script was libuvc_installation.sh which is part of the libuvc backend method of installing librealsense. This method is recommended for Arm-based devices such as the Pi.
https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/master/doc/libuvc_installation.md
There is now a faster way to do a quick test setup on Pi 4 now. Intel provide a pre-made SD card image for Pi 4 at the link below. The image does not contain any of the support wrappers such as Python or ROS though.
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