How to Use RealSense Camera on Nvidia Jetson

The RealSense camera is a depth-sensing camera that allows for accurate distance measurement. This can be useful for a variety of applications, such as robotics, 3D scanning, and object recognition. By using the RealSense camera on your NVIDIA Jetson, you can take advantage of its powerful processing capabilities and create applications that require accurate depth sensing.

If you're looking to use the RealSense camera on your NVIDIA Jetson, here's a quick guide that will take you through the process.

Prerequisites

NVIDIA® Jetson Nano™, Jetson NX™, Jetson TX2™ and Jetson AGX Xavier™ board (may also work on other Jetson devices)
RealSense D415, D43
5, D435i, D455, L515, SR300 and T265 Camera devices.

Install with Debian Packages

The minimum Jetpack SDK required to run the precompiled Debian is JetPack version 4.6.2 ( L4T 32.7.2 , CUDA version 10.2).

Note that a lower version may not work due to non compatible CUDA versions limitation.

Installation steps:

Register the server's public key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key F6E65AC044F831AC80A06380C8B3A55A6F3EFCDE || sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-key F6E65AC044F831AC80A06380C8B3A55A6F3EFCDE

<aside> ⚠️ In case the public key cannot be retrieved, check and specify proxy settings: export http_proxy="http://<proxy>:<port>", and rerun the command.

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Add the server to the list of repositories:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb <https://librealsense.intel.com/Debian/apt-repo> $(lsb_release -cs) main" -u

Install the SDK:

sudo apt-get install librealsense2-utils
sudo apt-get install librealsense2-dev

Test the Camera

Finally, test the camera to make sure everything is working properly. You can do this by running the following command:

realsense-viewer

This will open a GUI that displays the camera feed. If you're able to see the feed, then congratulations - you've successfully set up the RealSense camera on your NVIDIA Jetson!