Webcam connectivity issue with Pi...

[akhilchirravuri]

good evening

my project is to connect a USB webcam to the Pi and use it for monitoring & recording purposes...

now is it mandatory to install a webcam driver in the Raspbian OS which I am using with the Pi...

I couldn't find any Linux based drivers of the webcam...I've .EXE driver of the webcam...but it won't work in Raspbian I guess...

please help me with this issue...

[mikerr]

Telling us the model of the webcam might help

[akhilchirravuri]

Telling us the model of the webcam might help

Creative Technologies...Webcam Model No. is VF-0040

[mikerr]

It's not listed on http://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Webcams

but try installing fswebcam:

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sudo apt-get install fswebcam

[akhilchirravuri]

sudo apt-get install fswebcam...

after installation

fswebcam...

it gives me an error..."opening /dev/video0..."
stat: no such file or directory...

and one more question...?

I've gone through the link which you've posted previously...and on checking the website I found only .EXE drivers...will they work for Raspbian too...?

[pluggy]

No, .exe won't work on on Linux. The drivers for most webcams are preinstalled in the Kernel, and work 'out of the box' unfortunately the USB implementation on the Pi doesn't suit many webcams with the result that many of them don't work with the Pi. I've half a dozen USB webcams of various ilks that work fine on a PC running Linux but the Pi won't entertain. The established wisdom is you buy a camera to suit the Pi.

The Microsoft VX800 works a treat.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Microsoft-Lif ... 5aef7135c5

The elinux guide is out of date, it works at full resolution since about February 2013.

[Daveawalker]

The vx800 does not install for me!
raspbian on model B +

[pluggy]

The vx800 does not install for me!
raspbian on model B +

You don't need to install it. Raspbian will just find it and give it a device name (usually /dev/video0) and you access it via that.