Hi talkeasy, I had similar issues. The application raspivid needs access to the video group (the default user - pi , is already a member of this group, so that's why it works when running the command from the terminal). So this worked nicely for me: usermod -a -G video www-data This command says: "A...

Hi, you could use the output of this command: vcgencmd get_camera When the camera is connected, the output is like this: supported=1 detected=1 I haven't tried disconnecting the camera, but I suppose that if you have the latest firmware, supported will still be 1, but detected should show 0. Hope th...

Great work, @rayui! I was streaming with VLC until this morning when I decided to try your method. Everything works great. I had some troubles starting crtmpserver - it seems that it expects /var/log/crtmpserver to be present, so after creating this directory I managed to start it successfully. I al...

Yep, I updated this morning and lost control over the camera LED :( I read somewhere in the forum that GPIO 5 controls this LED, but couldn't figure out how to set it to 0 from shell. I always get "Operation not permitted" when trying to write "0" to /sys/class/gpio/gpio5/value even though I'm logge...

Hey everyone! I'm struggling with the Cam. I tried every command to stream into lan, but everytime I'm hitting enter the pi shutdown and wont come back online since I do a "hardreset" (power off/on).. Does anybody know, why this is happening? Model B 512MB, Inet over eth0, Debian squeez, USB HUB (e...

Ordered one Monday, received Tuesday. Liked the "Made in UK" board with 512MB RAM, so I couldn't hold myself up and ordered another one Tuesday, received it Wednesday. What can I say - well done, guys!