Sunday, February 24, 2013

Logitech USB Video Camera on Raspberry Pi

Yesterday I connected my Logitech, Inc. Webcam C210 USB camera to my Raspi, and after installing fswebcam (sudo apt-get install fswebcam) the camera was fully operational and would record pictures as required:



To make it more useful in home monitoring, I installed motion, which runs the camera unattended, noticing motion in the picture and taking different user-configurable actions, like recording frames and running user-specified scripts, when it does.

Although I can't send pictures as text messages (yet, you need a data plan which I don't have) with my GSM modem, I can send events I've set the motion program up to notice, so it might be useful.

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