Duet 3 RRF 3.1.1 SBC USB webcam
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I'm wondering if there's a way to configure DuetPi to show the stream from a USB webcam connected to the Pi in DWC. I know it works with an IP camera but what about a USB connected directly to the SPC controlling the printer?
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As a work around you could probably setup something like Motion to setup the USB cam as a webcam stream and then point DWC to that stream.
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@Phaedrux Thanks!
Do you know if this instructable would work?
How-to-Make-Raspberry-Pi-Webcam-Server-and-Stream -
That looks promissing.
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@Phaedrux Actually I just tried it out and it worked without a hitch. Took probably 5 minutes
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Not to rain on the parade, but the few times that i've tried to use motion, i wound up with a weird bug where the /tmp files from motion would FULLY plug up the SD card and require me to manually delete everything before the pi would accept files/changes again...
I've started using mjpg-streamer instead. still going alright!
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@Luke-sLaboratory This is actually just a live stream. It doesn't store the snapshots
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@dhusolo I'm aware, it just didn't clean its own temp files up from streaming - they gathered and grew until the entire SD card was full. The OS literally couldn't delete its own files because it was full (yeah, i know, its dumb). This happened 3 times in a row (I reflashed from scratch every time then installed motion) and has not come back in months since I abandoned motion. I was unable to find a similar bug / config settings to address this and gave up on it.
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Nothing a cron job can't fix. I had a similar problem with raspotify not clearing the streaming cache. A quick cron job to delete the cache folder every day and no more problem.
