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I know this camera is an oldie, but I have five of these and it's all I got for right now. Cameras are woking under windows xpcrap and works with my Ubuntu desk-top machine with camera monitoring software and vlc.

I have read most every post on here ref. set up of this usb cam and for the life of me can't get it to work.

I have installed Ubuntu 10.04
Installed Zoneminder
Made the mods to for memory
Made the additions to zmdc.pl

Then I go to setup monitor I select the following "Presets":

BTTV (V4l2) PAL 320x240 and it show registered, then the active light (show recording on camera) goes off on the eyetoy and I have no video.

All other presets I use, monitor will show registered then within a few seconds will de-regisster.

Do I actually have to restart zoneminder each time I load a different preset?
Do these only work in "Low", "Medium" or "High" bandwidth?
Do I need to run something like cambozola streaming and route that stream to zomeminder?

And most importantly, does anyone know if and how to run a stream from vlc to zoneminder if I have to use a seperate stream to zoneminder to get this thing working.

Any help would be more than helpful.

Thanks
amphibian

What does zmu say about the camera

James Wilson,

Thanks for your quick assistance, you requested the output of zmu,


zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v -U (username) -P (passwd) -V1 returns the following info:


Video Capabilities
Name: Logitech EyeToy USB Camera
Type : 1
Can capture
Video Channels: 1
Audio Channels: 1
Maximum Width: 640
Maximum Height: 480
Minimum Width: 48
Minimum Height: 32
Window Attributes
X Offset: 0
Y Offset: 0
Width: 640
Height: 480
Picture Attributes
Palette: 0 -Unknown
Colour Depth: 8
Brightness: 32639
Hue: 0
Colour: 32639
Contrest: 32639
Whiteness: 0
Channel 0 Attributes
Name: ov519
Channel: 0
Flags: 0
Type: 2 - Camera
Format: 0 -PAL


If you would like more info please send me a request with the command parameters and I will run it.

Thanks

amphibian

Hello i tried also to geht run my Old PS2 eyetoy Camera.
Which username and pw i have to use here?

zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v -U (username) -P (passwd) -V1

I have only greenscreen if i use jpg in my settings or black&white snow if i use rgb24

As always google or the search function is your friend:

http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... lit=eyetoy
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... lit=eyetoy
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/search ... mit=Search

Etc, etc

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

hi,
it doesnt help.
the first link i an ps3 eyetoy camera .
the second i allready read but nothing good for me.

and my qustion was...

Which username and pw i have to use here?

zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v -U (username) -P (passwd) -V1

EDIT
The output from zmu -d /dev/video0 -q
error0

any ideas?

EDIT

here some more informations. please HELP

root@server:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 13d1:2004 A-Max Technology Macao Commercial Offshore Co. Ltd.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 054c:0155 Sony Corp.

and

root@server:~# lsmod | grep ov
gspca_ov519 40522 0
gspca_main 27654 1 gspca_ov519

in my mod probe.conf i have this

options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
options ov51x-jpeg forceblock=1

The Output of mplayer

root@server:/# mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=320:height=240:device=/dev/video0 -fps 15 -vf screenshot
MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing tv://.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l2
name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
comment: first try, more to come
v4l2: your device driver does not support VIDIOC_G_STD ioctl, VIDIOC_G_PARM was used instead.
Selected device: EyeToy USB camera Namtai
Capabilities: video capture read/write streaming
supported norms:
inputs: 0 = ov519;
Current input: 0
Current format: unknown (0x4745504a)
v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument
v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Invalid argument
v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped.

some more Informations

root@server:/# cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.2.0-40-generic-pae (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 25 21:44:41 UTC 2013