There are very few industrial rated USB cameras that work on the BBB.  iDS
is the only one that I have found to do so, but they are expensive.  All of
the webcams work, but are consumer grade.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>wrote:

> In that case. why not look at using a USB camera?
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Brent C. Sink <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Ok, thanks.  I was afraid of that.  If I go the route of the camera cape,
>> and use the Aptina or OmniVision camera instead of composite video, I'll
>> need about 15ft of cable in between the beaglebone and camera.  This will
>> be mounted on a noisy machine... will a shielded cable be enough protection
>> for that kind of length?  I'm sure it's hard to guess without knowing the
>> application, but it's a concern that I have, which is why I thought just
>> accepting composite video would be the easiest.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Gerald Coley <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> It has no camera port. You would need an FPGA that would allow the
>>> signals to be captured and read via the GPMC would be the best bet. You
>>> could look at the camera cape. It might be able to be adapted for use with
>>> the TVP5150, the camera is on an adapter card, or at least give you an idea
>>> on how it may be done using an FPGA.
>>>
>>> Gerald
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Brent <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> By the way, I think I may have settled on the TVP5150 decoder chip from
>>>> TI.  Using the reference schematic from 
>>>> here<http://www.sleepyrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tvp5151_sch.pdf>I
>>>>  think I may have a chance.  However, does anyone have any pointers on
>>>> which signals I need to connect to the BeagleBone?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sleepyrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tvp5151_sch.pdf
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, October 14, 2013 10:27:35 PM UTC-4, chrisw wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Brent <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looking for a reference design for a NTSC/PAL video input on the
>>>>>> BeagleBone Black.  The only thing I found so far is from
>>>>>> e-consystems.com, but there is no schematic available.  I have an
>>>>>> analog camera where I need to capture the input and display it on an LCD,
>>>>>> but so far I haven't been able to find any good decoder schematics.  Does
>>>>>> anyone know of any that may exist?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.e-consystems.com/**NTSC-PAL-Video-Decoder-Board-**
>>>>>> Gumstix.asp<http://www.e-consystems.com/NTSC-PAL-Video-Decoder-Board-Gumstix.asp>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That board is for the Gumstix Overo, which is an OMAP3730, and more
>>>>> like the Beagleboard XM.  It would work for the Beaglebone Black, which
>>>>> doesn't have the same sort of camera interface.  You would have to do
>>>>> something more like the Beaglebone Camera Cape, which uses a special
>>>>> purpose chip to interface the "camera" to the GPMC port of the bone.  It
>>>>> would be quite a bit of work.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would suggest some sort of cheap USB based NTSC capture dongle that
>>>>> already has linux support.
>>>>>
>>>>> -chris
>>>>>
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