How to get a webcam working?

Hi There

After using my Pi as a webserver My next project is to make it into a Robot car, while I wait for a Logic Level Converter so I can interface it with my arduino I am trying to get the webcam part of my robot working. After looking in my cable draws I found that I had two cameras, A Logitech (C170 I think) (Doing a google I found NOTE: The C170 is not supported on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Mac OS, UNIX or Linux operating systems. on Logitech website, but it might still be possible) And a EyeToy Camera (First one / PS2 one)

Both cameras show up when typing lsusb into terminal but cheese does not detect them. I also found that in the directory /dev that video0 does not exist.

Does anyone have any tips? I Guess the eyetoy one might have a better chance as it was designed for a games console that normally are based off linux in some way.

Thanks - Ryan

I got the PS3 Eye working, so you could try following what I did: viewtopic.php?p=91076#p91076

Update your Pi with the latest kernel https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update. They added support for both of your webcams a few days ago. Do a search on the forum there are many threads about the rc car, webcam topic.

Updating it now, Hopefully it will work :3

I did have the eyetoy running off ubuntu at one point so it should work with linux

Edit: They both detect
Thanks for all the help

Hmm, Now using motion to stream it shows up with the error : Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment,

This is using the eye toy. The Logitech keeps having other errors

Edit: the Eyetoy comes up with [1] ioctl (VIDIOCGCAP): Inappropriate ioctl for device as the error. Does anyone know how to fix?

The USB driver in the kernel has packet loss issues; im seeing the same issues as you but with an EyeToy. Not sure if these issues are related but makes sense in my head.

It will stream, but eventually motion closes the webcam, and then reopens the webcam over and over again. I found the problem worse when running through a powered USB hub, but it still happened if I had only the EyeToy plugged directly into the Pi.

By the looks of it arch linux might have better compatibility with the camera so I will be trying that soon,

I found that running it via a USB hub (Not powered) worked worse.

Tried with Hexxeh Patch, now my Logitech C22 is recognized, Motion fully fonctionnal.

Just tried again, found the logitech one used too much power (requires around 500mA :C )

The eyetoy seems to be crashing out still

Going to post this in troubleshooting as this is now an error.

Thanks

Going to post this in troubleshooting as this is now an error.

Thanks

Have you updated using hexxeh's f/w script?