So I ordered this camera with the hopes of using it on the pi

And I'm stumped. I haven't tried connecting it to a pi yet, just a windows pc. It shows up via USB as an audio device, and also as a USB drive. On the drive is an .apk file for android, to install their in car DVR software (and driver I guess?) to allow the android device to access it as a camera.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VM85H2P/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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shabaz over 5 years ago

I think what Clem says is right, it could just be a USB cable to pull off files.
To do live video capture may need a different camera, there's some info on webcams here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/webcams/
However it used to be that very few webcams worked with Linux, so I don't know if that has changed.
The Pi camera module in Sean's link (that plugs into the flat-flex slot) could be easier to use, since the Raspbian image supports it by default.
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beacon_dave over 5 years ago in reply to shabaz

"However it used to be that very few webcams worked with Linux, so I don't know if that has changed."
There used to be a list of supported USB webcams which worked with the USB Video Class Linux driver listed here:
Linux UVC driver & tools
I stumbled across it when using webcams with the Intel Galileo SBC.

Another approach is to use USB audio/video class compliant devices like the AJA U-TAP
https://www.aja.com/products/u-tap-hdmi
https://www.aja.com/products/u-tap-sdi
or Epiphan AVIO and bring your video in that way without the need for yet another driver. I use them for getting broadcast video into devices that expect to use USB webcams. Not a cheap option unfortunately, but allows you to use whatever HDMI/HD-SDI device you want to.
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beacon_dave over 5 years ago in reply to shabaz

"However it used to be that very few webcams worked with Linux, so I don't know if that has changed."
There used to be a list of supported USB webcams which worked with the USB Video Class Linux driver listed here:
Linux UVC driver & tools
I stumbled across it when using webcams with the Intel Galileo SBC.

Another approach is to use USB audio/video class compliant devices like the AJA U-TAP
https://www.aja.com/products/u-tap-hdmi
https://www.aja.com/products/u-tap-sdi
or Epiphan AVIO and bring your video in that way without the need for yet another driver. I use them for getting broadcast video into devices that expect to use USB webcams. Not a cheap option unfortunately, but allows you to use whatever HDMI/HD-SDI device you want to.
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easyejl over 5 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

that is a cool device (the U-Tap) but dang that price. I'll have to remember that it exists if I ever find a deep need for it
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beacon_dave over 5 years ago in reply to easyejl

Epiphan do a similar one.
https://www.epiphan.com/products/avio-hd/
If I recall correctly you need to install a driver if you want to configure it, but once configured it is USB AV class compliant.

May be possible to do something on a budget with a FPGA dev board, as a number of them have HDMI capture and USB connectivity.
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shabaz over 5 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

Interesting product!
It looks great for microscopes - noticed it mentions latency is extremely low.
I have a similar type thing for analog uncompressed video from The Imaging Source, but it is not HD : (
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