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

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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.

 

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  • Once upon a time it was common for USB devices to identify as two things at once.

     

    This was typical with 3G USB modems, you'd plug it into your windows PC and it would identify as a USB CD-Rom drive, where you'd then pull off your driver files, once the software and drivers were installed, it would miraculously be able to negotiate and identify the 3G USB modem. You appear to have already some experience with this type of behaviour.

     

    It's possible that your video camera has the same functionality and without having a linux driver created for it to get past this virtual cd-rom drive/usb pen drive, will not identify as a video device in linux.

     

    When you plug it into the Raspberry Pi with Raspbian, run 'lsusb' and look up the vendor and device hex IDs on the internet, see if you can get more information about it. If you're lucky, you might find someone has created an appropriate driver for you to get further with it.

     

    It's likely identifying as an audio device because some cameras have a microphone on them.

  • in reply to cstanton

    Thanks, i'll try that and hunt. Or give in and just use it as a dashcam in the miata and buy a decent wide angle webcam image i'm looking for something to mount on the wall under or over the tv and get good coverage of the room

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