PS3 EYE TOY HOW TO
(Without the sudo, I get permission errors which I haven’t yet figured out how to resolve). Start up ‘motion’ in interactive mode (this is a text-mode app which you can run from the terminal, you don’t need to be in the ‘startx’ GUI: sudo motion -n.These are not necessary for webcam use so you may want to cover them with black electrical tape or similar. The two LEDs (one red, one blue) should illuminate. Now plug the EyeToy into a USB port on your Pi.
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Just have a browse through the config file which is fairly well-commented and self-explanatory. There are loads of other things you can do such as enable a basic remote control interface, tweak the JPEG quality, set up regular snapshots (by default, snapshots are taken only when motion is detected), customise the text which is overlaid onto the image and change the location to which images are saved (by default these go into /tmp/motion which is deleted whenever the Pi is rebooted). (Press Ctrl+X, Y then Enter to save changes and quit the nano editor) If you want to take regular snapshots whether motion is detected or not, you can change the following line (the value is in seconds): If you want to change the port on which the stream is served (default 8080) – replace 1234 with the desired port number:īy default, the camera will only start capturing images (and video) if it detects motion. If you want the stream to be viewable from other computers on the network (rather than just the Pi itself): To increase the resolution to the maximum supported by the EyeToy, change the following lines: width 640 To enable daemon mode (so you can run the software in the background without it tying up your terminal):
PS3 EYE TOY INSTALL
This should automatically install the required ‘ffmpeg’ package – if not you can just do sudo apt-get install ffmpeg.