Sony Playstation EyeToy with Raspberry Pi
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I own a Playstation Eye and wanted to use it as a second camera on my Pi.
How-To
- Plugin
- (Boot)
- Check
dmesg
for something like this:
[ 3.491651] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1415, idProduct=2000, bcdDevice= 1.00 [ 3.506960] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 3.517874] usb 1-1.2: Product: USB Camera-B4.04.27.1 [ 3.526393] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- or
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1415:2000 Nam Tai E&E Products Ltd. or OmniVision Technologies, Inc. Sony Playstation Eye Bus 001 Device 003: […] Bus 001 Device 002: […] Bus 001 Device 001: […]
- Install
fswebcam
apt-get fswebcam
- Try it:
fswebcam -d /dev/video0 foo.jpg
- If this is not your first camera, try
video1
and so on…