congrats on an image but camera is not working

[t0c123]

pi@banana:~$ media-ctl -p -d /dev/media1
Media controller API version 5.10.43

Media device information
driver sun6i-csi
model Allwinner Video Capture Device
serial
bus info platform:1cb0000.camera
hw revision 0x0
driver version 5.10.43

Device topology

• entity 1: sun6i-csi (1 pad, 1 link)
  type Node subtype V4L flags 0
  device node name /dev/video1
  pad0: Sink
  <- "ov5640 2-003c":0 [ENABLED]

• entity 5: ov5640 2-003c (1 pad, 1 link)
  type V4L2 subdev subtype Sensor flags 0
  device node name /dev/v4l-subdev0
  pad0: Source
  [fmt:YUYV8_2X8/640x480@1/30 colorspace:srgb xfer:srgb ycbcr:601 quantization:full-range]
  -> "sun6i-csi":0 [ENABLED]

pi@banana:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
rfcomm 53248 16
cmac 16384 1
bnep 24576 2
snd_soc_hdmi_codec 20480 1
hci_uart 61440 0
lima 45056 0
brcmfmac 176128 0
btrtl 20480 1 hci_uart
dw_hdmi_i2s_audio 16384 0
sun6i_csi 32768 0
dw_hdmi_cec 16384 0
btbcm 16384 1 hci_uart
brcmutil 16384 1 brcmfmac
input_leds 16384 0
gpu_sched 28672 1 lima
bluetooth 413696 40 btrtl,hci_uart,bnep,btbcm,rfcomm
ov5640 28672 1
ecdh_generic 16384 2 bluetooth
ecc 28672 1 ecdh_generic
cfg80211 491520 1 brcmfmac
v4l2_fwnode 24576 2 ov5640,sun6i_csi
sun4i_gpadc_iio 16384 0
industrialio 53248 1 sun4i_gpadc_iio
sun8i_thermal 16384 0
rfkill 20480 7 bluetooth,cfg80211
sunxi_cedrus 32768 0
v4l2_mem2mem 20480 1 sunxi_cedrus
videobuf2_dma_contig 20480 2 sunxi_cedrus,sun6i_csi
videobuf2_memops 20480 1 videobuf2_dma_contig
videobuf2_v4l2 20480 3 sunxi_cedrus,sun6i_csi,v4l2_mem2mem
zram 24576 2
videobuf2_common 40960 4 sunxi_cedrus,sun6i_csi,v4l2_mem2mem,videobuf2_v4l2
evdev 20480 6
uio_pdrv_genirq 20480 0
display_connector 20480 0
uio 16384 1 uio_pdrv_genirq
cpufreq_dt 20480 0
usb_f_acm 20480 1
u_serial 24576 3 usb_f_acm
g_serial 16384 0
libcomposite 45056 2 g_serial,usb_f_acm
ip_tables 24576 0
x_tables 24576 1 ip_tables
autofs4 36864 2
pwrseq_simple 16384 1
sunxi 16384 0
phy_generic 20480 2 sunxi
gpio_keys 20480 0

i don't know is this all good....

but when it comes to actual using of camera - it says something about "pipeline error, can not open pipeline..." (i can paste it here tomorrow)

i tried python app, from code-block, even downloaded gvcuview app, and vlc. Zero success :-\ and i lost like 6h today on that...

[Qengineering]

Did you initialize the camera before use?
It is done by the command $ sudo media-ctl --device /dev/media1 --set-v4l2 '"ov5640 2-003c":0[fmt:YUYV8_2X8/<your width> x <your height>]'

Please, read more in the last section of README.md. Here you see also a screendump of the command $ v4l2-ctl --list-devices testing the camera.