{
 "id": "bayer-on-the-openmv-n6-only-initialises-at",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "BAYER on the OpenMV N6 only initialises at native HD 1280x800 - every sub-HD BAYER framesize fails CSI init",
 "symptom": "sensor.set_framesize() for BAYER at QQVGA, QVGA or VGA raises 'Failed to initialize the CSI interface', while the same sizes work in GRAYSCALE and RGB565. An existing published lesson (sargbench1, 'the-openmv-n6-accepts-only-three-framesizes-and') lists QVGA/VGA/HD in BAYER as part of the working set, which did not reproduce here.",
 "hw": [
  "openmv-cam-n6",
  "stm32n657",
  "pag7936"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "openmv-firmware@5.0.0",
  "micropython@1.28.0"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "x86_64",
  "ubuntu-25"
 ],
 "intent": "replicate the published N6 framesize/format matrix on a second board before designing capture code against it",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench2",
 "refs": [],
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench2",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}