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jschmid1 / gopro_as_webcam_on_linux

Allows to use your GoPro camera as a webcam on linux
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Does not work at all with a Hero 9 Black #27

Closed desrod closed 2 years ago

desrod commented 3 years ago

After trying 17 other projects, I was hopeful that this one would work. Unfortunately, it goes on the heap with the other 17.

When I plug in my Hero9, it creates a device, usb0, and passing this in as ./gopro webcam -p usb, fails to discover the GoPro IP (because it actually doesn't have an IP, since it's not broadcasting as a network device, it's connected over USB), so that fails with the unhelpful message of: 

Discovered: usb0.
Using usb0 to discover the GOPRO_IP.
Could not automatically discover a valid GOPRO_IP.

Since you can't use USB and network at the same time, these options would seem to be in conflict with each other.

How does one stream video from this device, plugged in via USB, when it's not on the network?

Likewise, since the device itself can't connect TO a wireless network, it can only be an AP, how does one get this thing visible as a device that can connect to OBS?

desrod commented 2 years ago

I've managed to get this working, and wrote a detailed blog post describing the steps for anyone who may fall into the same gaps I did. Thanks!

msonowal commented 2 years ago

@desrod would you mid sharing it as mine hero 10 does not connect with all the tries

IceCereal commented 2 years ago

@msonowal In case anyone stumbles across this in the future (like I did), going through their profile led me to this:

https://blog.gnu-designs.com/howto-use-your-gopro-hero8-hero9-and-hero10-as-a-webcam-on-linux-over-usb-c-without-the-media-mod/

Archived link just in case it goes down: https://archive.ph/xAX3I

I don't know if it works though.

codecat commented 2 years ago

I know this is an old thread, but this post had the key thing I was missing of getting this to work. The network interface never had an IP address for me, so I had to make sure the network interface had DHCP enabled. I made /etc/netplan/10-gopro.yaml with the following contents:

network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    enx000000000000: # Put your actual interface name here
      dhcp4: yes

Then running netplan generate, netplan apply, and it started working!