Aiptek MegaCam 1.3 on the NSLU2
Posted by primalcortex on October 24, 2008
I have this camera for around 6 years, and it was gathering dust on my desk. I’ve tried previously to use it on the NSLU2, but on a prior version it didn’t work and it wasn’t supported.
But now the spca5xx chip used by this camera is supported in Linux,and there is a package for driver on the NSLU2 SlugOS package list, so here are the instructions:
Please make sure that first you have enabled the Optware repositories for installation of Optware packages
1) Install the usbutils: ipkg install usbutils
2) Install the video and the gspca1 module which supports the SPCA504a? chipset used by this WebCam?: ipkg install gspca1
3) Install the vidcat program: ipkg-opt install w3cam
That’s it:
1) Connect your usb camera anda make sure it is detected:
root@nslu2-nas:/var/log# lsusb Bus 2 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 1 Device 2: ID 04b4:6830 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. USB-2.0 IDE Adapter Bus 1 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 Bus 3 Device 3: ID 04fc:504a Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd SPCA504a Digital Camera Bus 3 Device 1: ID 0000:0000 |
2) Insert the drivers:
modprobe videodev modprobe gspca |
The lsmod output should be something like:
Module Size Used by gspca 600708 0 videodev 23072 1 gspca v4l2_common 12640 1 videodev v4l1_compat 11652 1 videodev |
3) Try it: /opt/bin/vidcat -d /dev/video0 > photo.jpg
It takes a while (around 30s to 1 minute) just be patient.
I’ve posted this on the NSLU2 wiki also.
