How to disable auto exposure and set manual exposure time?

[chenliang1986]

I follows your guide and enable raspberrypi camera_v2 as a USB Camera for Windows PC. The bmControls changed as follows: cat /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/pi4/functions/uvc.usb0/control/processing/default/bmControls 255 47

cat /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/pi4/functions/uvc.usb0/control/terminal/camera/default/bmControls 14 0 0

Now the brightness/saturation/sharpness/contrast can runtime change and take effect, but the auto exposure mode is always 0 and change the exposure time don't take effect. I also change the /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -c auto_exposure=1, then the auto exposure mode is fixed to manual mode, the exposure time can runtime change and take effect, but the auto exposure mode can't change to auto mode any more. It looks like the auto exposure mode is fixed by below codes and can be changed. If delete the line /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -c auto_exposure=0, the result is the auto exposure mode is fixed to auto mode.

!/bin/bash

# sudo /home/pi/uvc-gadget/multi-gadget.sh /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -c auto_exposure=0 // change to 1 manual mode /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -c auto_exposure_bias=8 /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -c contrast=20 /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -c video_bitrate=25000000 sudo /home/pi/uvc-gadget/uvc-gadget -u /dev/video1 -v /dev/video0

The test application as follows, the Auto Exposure Mode is always 0 even if I call cap.set(CV_CAP_PROP_AUTO_EXPOSURE, 1) to change to manual AE mode. The application can work well is use Windows PC default front camera.

include "opencv2/opencv.hpp"

include

using namespace cv; using namespace std;

int main() { VideoCapture cap(1); Mat frame;

auto exp_time = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_EXPOSURE);
cout << "Init Exposure Time: " << exp_time << endl;

auto gain = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_GAIN);
cout << "Init Gain: " << gain << endl;

auto ae_mode = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_AUTO_EXPOSURE);
cout << "Init Auto Exposure Mode: " << ae_mode << endl << endl;

cap.set(CV_CAP_PROP_AUTO_EXPOSURE, 1);

exp_time = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_EXPOSURE);
cout << "Exposure Time: " << exp_time << endl;

gain = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_GAIN);
cout << "Gain: " << gain << endl;

ae_mode = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_AUTO_EXPOSURE);
cout << "Auto Exposure Mode: " << ae_mode << endl << endl;

cap >> frame;

int i = 0;
while (waitKey(30) != 27)
{
    i++;
    i %= 100;
    cap.set(CV_CAP_PROP_EXPOSURE, (i / 10) - 10);

    exp_time = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_EXPOSURE);
    cout << "Exposure Time:" << exp_time << endl;

    gain = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_GAIN);
    cout << "Gain: " << gain << endl;

    ae_mode = cap.get(CV_CAP_PROP_AUTO_EXPOSURE);
    cout << "Auto Exposure Mode: " << ae_mode << endl << endl;

    cap >> frame;
    putText(frame, "Exposure:" + to_string(i / 10 - 10), Point(20, 30), 3, 1.0, Scalar(255, 0, 0));
    imshow("Piwebcam", frame);
}

return 0;

}