Closed Oman395 closed 2 years ago
Ran full test, all passed save for webcam list:
Uncaught AssertionError: expected Error: Command failed: fswebcam -q -r 1. { .(4) } to be a null
Running the command, it appears to cause a conflict with both bash and zsh:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
zsh: parse error near `}'
It says 'expected Error', so I'm not sure if it should be like this; I don't have ubuntu installed anywhere, so I'm currently unable to confirm. Additionally, test_image_memory_64.html has a broken image; I'm not sure if the two are related. The file's IMG tag is
<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,">
Which doesn't appear valid; I could be wrong.
As far as I can tell this is a bug caused by a quirk of linux-- as far as I can tell, it will create multiple entries in /dev for cameras (with my laptop's 1 integrated camera, I have /dev/video0 and /dev/video1). When I plug in my external camera, I now have /dev/video0-3, and only video0 and video2 are valid. It looks like we could get the output of
v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/${camera} --all
for any duplicates, specifically looking at the output of the 'serial' section of 'Media Driver Info'-- I'm at least 99% that they will be different for every device, but I could be wrong. However, I don't have 2 of the same device, so for now I'll use the ostrich approach to solving this. The duplicate entries are (AFAIK) always listed after the actual camera, so I should be able to simply make it alternate by 2 instead of 1 if it's using fswebcam-- although I will need to do some more testing.
test_image_memory_64.html still broken, IDEK what it's supposed to do lol
Thanks. v4l2-ctl
sounds promising for getting a /dev/video list of valid cameras. test_image_memory_64.html
was for saving an image to memory testing instead of a file. I could not get a working version of in memory callback so it is broken, but left the test in there.
Added instructions for building fswebcam on arch. Have not fully tested the package yet on arch, but I've saved a photo correctly first try so I'd say it's safe to assume the bindings will be safe. For whatever reason, fswebcam isn't available for installation on pacman/pamac, however it is available to build, so that's what I've added instructions for.