Asus TB | PS3 Eye camera not working

adamotte commented 5 years ago

Required Information:

DietPi version | 6.19.6
Distro version | 9.6
Kernel version | Linux DietHA 4.4.71+
SBC device | Asus Tinker Board (armv7l)
Power supply used | Ankru 5V 3A
SDcard used | No
eMMC | Yes

Additional Information (if applicable):

Software title | MotionEye
Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? | freshly and updated
Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? |Yes

Steps to reproduce:

Plug in any USB ports the PS3 Eye camera
Run lsusb
Run v4l2-ctl --list-devices

Expected behaviour:

Something like :

root@DietHA:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1415:2000 Nam Tai E&E Products Ltd. or OmniVision Technologies, Inc. S
[...]

root@DietHA:~# v4l2-ctl --list-devices
USB Camera-B3.04.06.1 (usb-bcm2708_usb-1.2.4.1) :
/dev/video0

Actual behaviour:

root@DietHA:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1415:2000 Nam Tai E&E Products Ltd. or OmniVision Technologies, Inc. S
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0451:16a8 Texas Instruments, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:481a Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

root@DietHA:~# v4l2-ctl --list-devices
Failed to open /dev/video0: No such file or directory

Extra details:

FYI, the audio part (micro) seems working because i'm using it with snips.ai So maybe the Sony Playstation Eye to come up as an audio device instead of a video device...

MichaIng commented 5 years ago

@adamotte Sorry for this was forgotten. Did you manage it in between?

If not please check if the devices actually exist + their permissions in case: ls -Al /dev/video*

In case check that required kernel modules are loaded: lsmod (Not sure if it's bcm2835-v4l2 on TB as well)

MichaIng commented 5 years ago

I close this due to missing user reply. Feel free to reopen if the issue persists.

riker09 commented 4 years ago

I believe I'm having this issue as well. I'm not using DietPi, but Armbian. But it seems that the driver module gspca_ov254 is missing from the kernel. I stumbled across this when I moved from kernel v4.4.x to v5.4.x and my PS3 Eye stopped working on my NanoPi M4.

I believe this can explain why I think the module is missing:

volker@nanopim4:~$ sudo modinfo gspca_main
filename:       /lib/modules/5.4.26-rockchip64/kernel/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca_main.ko
version:        2.14.0
license:        GPL
description:    GSPCA USB Camera Driver
author:         Jean-François Moine <http://moinejf.free.fr>
srcversion:     622BE485A3666FE37396CA5
depends:        videobuf2-v4l2,videodev,videobuf2-vmalloc,videobuf2-common
intree:         Y
name:           gspca_main
vermagic:       5.4.26-rockchip64 SMP preempt mod_unload aarch64
parm:           debug:1:probe 2:config 3:stream 4:frame 5:packet 6:usbi 7:usbo (int)

volker@nanopim4:~$ sudo modinfo gspca_ov534
modinfo: ERROR: Module gspca_ov534 not found.

I'm not a kernel guru and already spent quite some time finding this. I will try and compile that module myself and see if that does something.

MichaIng commented 4 years ago

@riker09 Yes, probably this driver can be enabled/disabled in kernel config and has been disabled for some reason by Armbian. Compiling a kernel module would be easiest solution that can be adopted for others as well, without the need to maintain an own kernel branch. This issue seems then somehow similar as #3435.

Generally I do not see us compiling own kernels, but I could imagine us hosting some module compiling + integration scripts, via DKMS or simple /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ scripts. As long as kernel headers are available, this is usually painless and does not require much maintenance.

MichaIng / DietPi