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The gphoto2 commandline tool for accessing and controlling digital cameras.
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Discovery Kids Digital Camera and Video #12

Open metalx1000 opened 8 years ago

metalx1000 commented 8 years ago

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this... My Grandmother bought my daughter one of these for Christmas: Discovery Kids Digital Camera and Video http://amzn.com/B00G49INKA

I'm a Debian Linux user and I can't seem to get this camera to work and I was hoping for some guidance. I'm not sure if this camera is suppose to show up as a mass storage devices, MTP, or PTP. I brought it to work and it mounts as a regular drive on the Windows machine there.

On Linux I can see it with 'lsusb'

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0d98:1007 Mars Semiconductor Corp. Discovery Kids Digital Camera

If I "gphoto2 --list-ports" I believe these ports listed are the camera:

usb:003,005                           Universal Serial Bus            
usb:003,004                           Universal Serial Bus            
usb:003,003                           Universal Serial Bus            
usbdiskdirect:/dev/sdb           USB Mass Storage direct IO      
usbscsi:/dev/sg2                    USB Mass Storage raw SCSI

Most other gphoto2 commands give me this message:

*** Error ***              
Could not detect any camera
*** Error (-105: 'Unknown model') ***

The device "/dev/sdb" has no partitions and can't be mounted itself and fdisk gets this error: fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error

after pluging in the camera dmesg show these messages repeated a number of times:

[ 1090.314634] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[ 1090.314640] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 01 00
[ 1090.314643] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 1
[ 1090.314646] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 1, async page read

I also can "cat" of "dd" anything from /dev/sdb

Any direction on what to do would be great. It's not a big deal, but my daughter likes playing with this camera, and it only has 13MB of storage, so it fills up fast.

Thanks

metalx1000 commented 8 years ago

msmeissn, Thank you for labeling this correctly.

I have found that if I hold down the "mode" button on the camera while I plug the usb cable into the computer, instead of saying "USB" on the camera's display it says "PCCAM"

It then shows up under 'lsusb' as:

Bus 003 Device 007: ID 0d98:02a1 Mars Semiconductor Corp.

'dmesg' show:

[29799.045534] usb 3-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[29800.524729] usb 3-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0d98, idProduct=02a1
[29800.524734] usb 3-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[29800.524736] usb 3-1.4: Product: MARS-PCCAM

Googling MARS-PCCAM, it seems like this might be a webcam mode of some sort, although I've seen nothing regarding this that is directly related to this camera. So I think this mode does not help with getting the camera's photos/videos with gphoto2. But, I thought I would mention it.