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Adds the Orin-side publisher, camera_plugin_sensing (src/plugins/sensing): it captures GMSL cameras with SIPL, encodes H.264 on the Jetson hardware encoder and publishes one LiveKit track per camera. The PC side (CaptureServer, the Ego Capture backend, preview and recording) is in the egocap PR #1426; the two build independently from main.

  • Publisher: one track per camera, with a per-frame id, an application timestamp (Unix processing time) and the raw SIPL capture counter. The Jetson encoder does not return the timestamp it is given, so units are paired with captures by submission order (bounded in-flight queue).
  • Capture counter probe: logs the SIPL counter against the host clocks, and the counter is documented as raw ticks until the SDK headers confirm units.
  • Build and run docs: the Orin build/run section of src/plugins/sensing/README.md and a camera setup guide (CAMERA_SETUP.md: flashing, package install, photos).
  • Build: BUILD_PLUGIN_SENSING (Jetson only; needs SIPL, NVENC and the LiveKit SDK), off by default.

Known limits

  • The sender publishes processing time, not a sensor capture time. No counter-to-host-clock mapping is implemented here, so the counter is carried as capture_tsc (unscaled).
  • If the Jetson encoder silently drops a frame, later frames carry the wrong capture's metadata until the in-flight cap trims the queue.
  • Dev LiveKit keys and plain ws:// signalling were used for the Orin run; production needs wss:// and real keys.

Type of change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update

Testing

  • On an AGX Orin (two SHW5G cameras, 2560x1984, 30 fps, H.264): the publisher built and ran, publishing about 2,100 frames per track with none replaced; the PC page showed the video in a browser (with the egocap PC side).
  • Not run: the full C++ build off the Orin, and the full pre-commit locally. This branch was split from a larger PR and was not rebuilt after the split.

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  • New Features
    • Added an optional SENSING camera plugin for Jetson platforms, supporting SIPL camera capture, hardware H.264 encoding, and publishing camera streams to LiveKit.
    • Added support for configuring multiple camera streams, listing available sensors, and viewing capture and publishing statistics.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup and usage guides covering camera wiring, platform requirements, building, sensor checks, and stream publishing.

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The change adds an optional SENSING camera plugin for Jetson. The plugin captures SIPL sensor frames, converts image formats with CUDA, encodes H.264 with the V4L2 NVENC backend, and publishes video tracks through LiveKit. It adds a command-line application, CMake configuration and installation rules, plugin metadata, and hardware setup and user documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Main as app main
  participant Camera as SensingCamera
  participant SIPL as SiplCamera
  participant Output as LiveKitVideoOutput
  participant Encoder as JetsonEncoder
  participant Sink as VideoTrackSink
  Main->>Camera: construct and call update
  Camera->>SIPL: retrieve latest sensor frame
  SIPL-->>Camera: return frame and capture metadata
  Camera->>Output: submit frame
  Output->>Encoder: submit RGBA frame for encoding
  Encoder-->>Output: return encoded H.264 unit
  Output->>Sink: submit encoded video frame
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Merge Risk: Low · previous review a4514

This opt-in Jetson plugin is mergeable once a few small issues are addressed. The LiveKit join token can travel in cleartext over ws://, some build error messages may mislead users, and an encoder startup failure could crash the process. The change has not been built off the Orin.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to a4514

The new publisher permits unencrypted signaling, which can expose its join token to an attacker on the network path when configured with ws://. Exposure depends on deployment configuration and the token’s permissions. The feature is opt-in, secure URLs are documented, and token-file handling reduces local credential exposure, but these controls do not enforce encrypted signaling.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · observed: The new publisher accepts ws:// signaling and passes its join token to the connection without enforcing secure transport. An on-path attacker can observe plaintext signaling and capture the bearer token for use within its server-granted permissions. Documented wss examples do not prevent this configuration.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The independently exposed unit is a publisher’s plaintext signaling connection and the join token carried through it. Captured-token authority depends on its actual room, participant, permissions, and lifetime—not merely the configured camera tracks. Those deployed grants were unavailable, so broader tenant or infrastructure compromise is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The retained signaling exposure is introduced by this PR’s new publishing path. Exploitation requires a ws-configured invocation and network-path access; the evidence does not show a remote attacker controlling the CLI URL. The supported outcome is signaling and credential exposure, not proof that camera media itself is transmitted unencrypted.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The operator-selected URL and file-loaded credential cross into the external LiveKit connection unchanged. Usage recommends wss, while application validation requires only a nonempty URL. Transport policy therefore remains configuration-dependent rather than enforced at this boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Rejected frames trigger keyframe recovery, while terminal session and output errors propagate to the capture loop. Producer-side snapshot failure latches an error without immediately invalidating existing pending work, so the failure latch alone is not an atomic publication cutoff. No cross-camera or cross-tenant disclosure consequence was established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Enforce wss before opening the signaling connection. If plaintext development operation is necessary, require an explicit insecure-development opt-in rather than treating it as an ordinary production URL. Use short-lived, narrowly scoped publisher tokens to limit credential-compromise impact.
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Actionable comments posted: 6

Nitpick comments: 1

src/plugins/sensing/CAMERA_SETUP.md: 1

158-246: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Keep setup and troubleshooting in the published SENSING user guide only.

docs/source/device/camera/sensing.rst already owns host and container setup, camera preview, setup details, and troubleshooting. CAMERA_SETUP.md repeats these topics in Steps 3–4 and its troubleshooting table. Keep the physical wiring content here, remove the duplicated procedures, and link to the published guide.

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Review comment at @src/plugins/sensing/CAMERA_SETUP.md around lines 158 - 246:
Keep CAMERA_SETUP.md focused on physical wiring: remove the duplicated
operating-system and package setup, host setup, camera-streaming checks, and
troubleshooting procedures, and replace them with a link to the published
SENSING user guide at docs/source/device/camera/sensing.rst. Preserve the
physical wiring content.
Additional comments: 2

src/plugins/sensing/core/sipl_camera.cpp-810-813: 1

810-813: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

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NVSIPL_STATUS_EOF ends the capture thread silently and leaves the publisher stalled.

If the completion queue returns EOF while running is still true, frame_loop breaks without calling set_failure. latest() then returns nullopt forever. SensingCamera::update() never throws, so the process keeps running and publishes nothing, with no error.

Treat EOF during running as a failure.

Proposed fix

             if (status == nvsipl::NVSIPL_STATUS_EOF)
             {
+                if (running.load())
+                    set_failure("SIPL sensor " + std::to_string(sensor.info.id) + " completion queue reached EOF");
                 break;
             }
src/plugins/sensing/core/sipl_camera.cpp-613-613: 1

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--full-range has no effect on capture decode: SiplConfig::full_range is never read.

  • sipl_camera.hpp documents full_range as "Overrides the range implied by the reconciled colour standard".
  • sensing_camera.cpp copies the CLI flag into it.
  • Line 613 always uses the range from check_color_std(...), and no code reads config.full_range.

As a result, --full-range changes only the encoder's RGBA→NV12 coefficients, not the YUV→RGBA decode. Apply the override here, or remove the field and update the help text.

Proposed fix

-    sensor.full_range = check_color_std(sensor.buf_attrs);
+    sensor.full_range = check_color_std(sensor.buf_attrs) || config.full_range;

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Review comments at @src/plugins/sensing/app/CMakeLists.txt:
- Line 15: Replace both `${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../configs` references with
a shared configs-directory variable defined in the parent sensing CMake
configuration, such as `SENSING_CONFIGS_DIR`, and use that variable at both
locations.

Review comments at @src/plugins/sensing/CMakeLists.txt:
- Around line 43-56: Correct the dependency guidance in the Sensing CMake
dependency checks: remove claims that setup scripts fetch the SIPL headers or
Multimedia API tree, and direct users only to documented steps that actually
provide them or to the relevant CMake override. Update the validation-script
reference to match the location documented in README.md, preserving the existing
dependency checks and fatal errors.

Review comments at @src/plugins/sensing/core/CMakeLists.txt:
- Around line 25-27: Replace the PUBLIC parent-directory include export in
sensing_core with an INTERFACE export from core/inc/sensing_core. Move
sensing_camera.hpp, sensing_types.hpp, and sipl_camera.hpp into that public
include directory, and update app/main.cpp to include them using angle brackets
with the sensing_core/ prefix.

Review comments at @src/plugins/sensing/core/livekit_video_output.cpp:
- Around line 323-339: Remove the kMaxInFlight front-trimming logic so metadata
for accepted submissions is not discarded arbitrarily. In the submission and
publish_unit flow, establish and use the encoder-supported per-frame correlation
or drop signal to retire metadata only when its output is matched or the encoder
confirms it was dropped; do not merely skip unmatched units or shift later
pairings.

Review comments at @src/plugins/sensing/README.md:
- Around line 42-89: Remove the Orin build/run procedure, header-tree setup
details, and “Human to fill in” placeholder from the sensing README; move those
instructions to the existing user guide. Keep the README’s source-map entry and
add or retain a link to the guide.
- Around line 65-67: Update the LiveKit endpoint in the camera_plugin_sensing
example to use secure WebSocket transport while retaining the join.token
authentication and stream arguments.

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Review comments at @src/plugins/sensing/CAMERA_SETUP.md:
- Around line 158-246: Keep CAMERA_SETUP.md focused on physical wiring: remove
the duplicated operating-system and package setup, host setup, camera-streaming
checks, and troubleshooting procedures, and replace them with a link to the
published SENSING user guide at docs/source/device/camera/sensing.rst. Preserve
the physical wiring content.

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Review comments at @src/plugins/sensing/app/main.cpp:
- Around line 300-301: Validate camera_config.livekit.url before passing it to
LiveKitSession::connect: require wss:// by default, allow ws:// only when an
explicit insecure-use flag is enabled, and print a warning when that opt-in is
used. Reject empty or unsupported schemes as well as ws:// without the opt-in.

Review comments at @src/plugins/sensing/core/jetson_encoder.cpp:
- Around line 61-68: Update ~Impl to stop and wait for the capture DQ thread
before freeing its resources or deleting encoder, so the thread cannot access
Impl after destruction begins. Move the existing thread-shutdown responsibility
from ~JetsonEncoder to ~Impl, preserving the encoder-null check and current wait
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Pushed 618ab2e00: the producer now compiles a build-tree copy of NVIDIA's NvVideoEncoder.cpp without four leftover cout debug prints (in setBitrate() and setPeakBitrate()) that put the bare pixel-format integers 875967048 / 842091854 on stdout at every encoder start. /usr/src is not edited and no NVIDIA source is checked in. Configure prints how many lines were removed; on an AGX Orin (L4T R39.2.1) it printed removed 4 debug print(s) and the build and package completed (not activated, so I have not watched a running producer's output).

gareth-morgan-nv and others added 14 commits November 10, 2026 14:37
…encoder

Add the SENSING SG8A camera plugin as a LiveKit publisher: SIPL capture,
colour conversion, one hardware H.264 encode per track, and pre-encoded
publication through the LiveKit C++ SDK. The sources are taken from the
sensing-livekit branch and trimmed to this one path: no file recording,
CUDA IPC, MCAP metadata or schema.

Jetson only; built with -DBUILD_PLUGIN_SENSING=ON. Not built or run here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
… Jetson

Copy the mock SiplCamera and JetsonEncoder from the sensing-livekit
branch: synthetic frames (optionally animated GIFs) and a real H.264
encode through libavcodec's NVENC, so the plugin builds and runs on any
machine with an NVIDIA GPU and CUDA. SENSING_BACKEND selects JETSON,
MOCK or AUTO (JETSON on aarch64). The sample GIFs are CC BY 4.0, noted in
the top-level README.

Not built or run here yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
…ithout a Jetson"

This reverts commit fa7ba7c.

Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
SIPL now stamps CLOCK_REALTIME next to the monotonic stamp, and the
LiveKit output carries it through the encoder to the frame's
user_timestamp_us. The transport timestamp stays monotonic. A consumer on
another host maps the Unix time onto its own clock, so the stream's
timestamp_basis is unix_us. It is the host time at publication, not
exposure time, and is only as accurate as the hosts' clock
synchronisation; the SIPL capture counter still rides in user_data.

Not built or run here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
…shadowing unix_ns()

The application timestamp is CLOCK_REALTIME after capture and conversion,
so it is later than the capture event and not a capture time; the comments
now say so. Rename the publish() parameter so it no longer hides the
unix_ns() function. Built with the mock backend in a scratch tree; the
Jetson sources are not compiled here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
…clocks

SENSING_TSC_PROBE=1 prints the SIPL capture counter beside
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME twice a second, so a
person on the Orin can see whether the counter shares a timebase with a host
clock. It builds no mapping and the sender still publishes processing time.
The runbook lists what real Orin recording still needs. The probe is
clang-format checked and its clock-reading lines were syntax-checked in
isolation; the Jetson sources are not compiled here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
…out what it shows

Read the environment once, log through the repository logger, and say in
the comment and the runbook that the counter-to-host difference includes
sensor, ISP and dequeue delay, so it is not a mapping and must not be
subtracted as one. The runbook now lists the evidence real Orin recording
needs. Jetson source, not compiled here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
Rename capture_tsc_ns to capture_tsc and the probe's labels to match; the
counter is unscaled ticks until the SIPL headers confirm units. Jetson
source, not compiled here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
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The Jetson V4L2 encoder does not return the timestamp it was given on the
output plane: its units are numbered from its own frame rate (stamp 0, then
33333 us, ...). The LiveKit output matched each returned unit to a capture by
timestamp, so the first unit already matched nothing and the publisher exited
with "the encoder returned a unit for a frame it was not given".

The encoder returns one unit per accepted frame in submission order, so pair
each unit with the oldest capture in flight. Bound the in-flight queue so a
frame dropped inside the encoder cannot leave later frames paired with the
wrong capture's metadata.

Run on an AGX Orin with two SHW5G cameras: both tracks publish to a LiveKit
room at 30 fps (about 2,100 frames each in 70 s). Not seen in a browser.

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…estamp contract as observed

The probe no longer subtracts an unscaled counter from nanoseconds. The
encoder comments now match the Orin behaviour (returned stamp is not the
submitted one; pair by order), and the in-flight cap is described as
bounding staleness, not repairing a shifted pairing.

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gareth-morgan-nv and others added 14 commits November 10, 2026 14:37
The plan lives in the git-ignored agentPlans/ folder instead; the READMEs no
longer link to it.

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…d offline

Send the capture stamp as the transport timestamp, clear the room delegate
before disconnecting, link the CUDA runtime and driver, let a local LiveKit
SDK build without network access, drop a personal search path, and correct
comments and the README prerequisites. Not built on a Jetson yet.

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Add CAMERA_SETUP.md, a step-by-step guide to connecting SENSING SHW5G
GMSL cameras to a Jetson AGX Orin through the SG8A carrier: the SIPL and
Argus camera types, the parts and connectors, power, the connection
order, the operating system setup, and a check that the cameras stream.

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Add photographs of the parts, the breakout harness, the camera, and the
carrier's receptacles, with and without the harness connected, to
CAMERA_SETUP.md. The images are resized, have no embedded metadata, and
carry REUSE license sidecars.

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Remove the verified and not-verified section and rephrase the sentences
that hedged, so the guide reads as plain setup instructions.

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…tup guide

Step 3 now covers flashing a new or reflashed AGX Orin with SDK Manager
(recovery mode, target, Pre-Config, interrupted-flash recovery) and lists
the apt packages to install before the host setup.

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- Define the configs directory once and use it from app/ instead of a
  parent-relative path.
- Make the missing-dependency messages name only steps that provide the
  dependency, and point at scripts/verify.sh.
- Move the Orin build and run steps from the plugin README into the user
  guide, drop the unfinished placeholder, and note that the example's
  ws:// endpoint sends the join token in the clear.

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…e path

sensing_core exported its parent directory as a PUBLIC include path and the
app reached headers as "core/...", which the CMake structure rules forbid
(no ../ -style reach, INTERFACE inc/, <module/...> includes).

Move the headers the app consumes (sensing_camera, sensing_types,
sipl_camera) to core/inc/sensing_core/, export only core/inc with INTERFACE,
and have own sources reach them by relative "inc/sensing_core/..." paths.
The app includes them as <sensing_core/...>. The remaining headers have no
other consumer and stay private beside their sources.

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The LiveKit output paired each encoded unit with the oldest submitted
frame's metadata by order, and trimmed the queue to a fixed length. The trim
threw away metadata for frames that could still come back, a unit arriving
with an empty queue threw and failed SensingCamera::update(), and a frame
consumed inside the encoder shifted every later frame_id and capture stamp
by one.

The Jetson encoder does not return the stamp given to it, so there is no
per-frame key to carry through. Keep order pairing, which is what the Orin
was seen to do, and use the encoder's own unit numbering (index times the
frame period) only as evidence of a skipped frame: a forward jump retires
that many oldest entries, provided one remains for the unit. A backwards
jump or an implausible one just resets the baseline. A unit with nothing to
pair with is skipped and counted instead of throwing, and whatever is still
unreturned after the encoder is drained is counted as dropped. Both counts
appear in the per-sensor statistics.

Not built or run: needs the Jetson SDK and an Orin. Whether the encoder
numbers dropped frames in its unit numbering is unverified.

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…structor

The capture-plane dequeue thread dereferences the implementation object. It
was stopped only in ~JetsonEncoder, which does not run when the constructor
throws after the thread starts (a failing capture qBuffer or cudaMallocPitch),
so the thread could outlive the object it uses. Stop and join it in ~Impl,
guarded by a flag set once the thread has started.

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NvVideoEncoder.cpp, compiled from the Multimedia API tree, prints both pixel
format codes with cout in setBitrate() and setPeakBitrate(), so the producer's
stdout gets bare integers at every encoder start. The tree under /usr/src is
not ours to edit, so compile a copy with those lines removed, rewritten only
when its content changes, and report how many were removed at configure time.

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The producer compiled NvVideoEncoder and the V4L2 element classes from
/usr/src/jetson_multimedia_api, where NVIDIA ships their implementation only as
source. Copy the seven classes and the seven headers they need (BSD-3-Clause,
each file keeps its own license text) from the R39.2.1 package into
third_party/jetson_multimedia_api, so the build no longer depends on the
installed copy's version. Only four debug cout lines in NvVideoEncoder.cpp are
removed, marked with a comment; this replaces the configure-time patch.

The three headers that must not be copied stay in the installed tree:
nvbufsurface.h (proprietary), libv4l2.h (LGPL) and v4l2_nv_extensions.h (the
driver's interface). The directory has a README with the source, license and
update steps, a LICENSE that is installed beside the plugin, a REUSE annotation
for files whose header has no SPDX tag, a README licensing note, and an
exemption from the whitespace hooks so the files keep their upstream bytes.

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The user guide still said the build takes samples/common/classes from
JETSON_MMAPI_DIR. The classes are copied into the repository now, so the tree
only has to provide nvbufsurface.h.

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setup_orin_crosscompile.py builds the Orin sysroot without sudo from the Jetson
Linux, Multimedia API and SIPL API packages and Ubuntu 24.04's arm64 libraries,
downloads Arm's aarch64 GNU toolchain, and then type-checks the producer's
sources or cross-builds camera_plugin_sensing for aarch64 through a small
generated project, using the CUDA aarch64 cross target. Downloads are checked
against the publishers' SHA-256, and spdlog is fetched at the revision the
repository pins. The user guide describes it.

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The syntax check put the plugin and core directories on its include path, which
the build does not, so a public header that reached a private one passed the
check and failed the build. Drop those two paths.

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Closing as superseded: the camera path is now the camera_streamer architecture (SIPL/Argus sender, AVS1 over TCP, PC receiver and LiveKit bridge; see #1473-#1479). Not merged; the branch and commits are kept.

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This PR is superseded by the camera_streamer PRs:

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