Endoscope camera  

Re: Endoscope camera

Just added it here, whit video

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1626709

Re: Endoscope camera

Hi, do you know if this camera can be seen as a UVC cam on Linux ? It could be a good alternative for webcam on Octoprint, as the new extruder design is hiding a lot of thing from a webcam !

In addition, this is a thing I was looking for a long time, for a lot of occasion I need to see inaccessible area while tinkering the house 🙂

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When I connect it to my Windows PC run it as normal webcam. So also believe it will also run that way on Linux. I just ordered a new pi with octoprint on it, so I can tell if it works in about a week 😀

I also bought this camera to examine the home, so I already had it 😉

Re: Endoscope camera

Hi,

Linux itself cover a large amount of hardware, but Octoprint just rely on native Raspberry camera, or UVC standard USB camera, which is not the case for every webcam available.

I will be glad to hear about your feedback on integration in OctoPrint 🙂

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Unfortunately, I have not been able to get the endoscope camera to run with ocyoprint yet 🙁

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Mmmh, maybe it's not an UVC camera after all ...

on your Rpi, you can list the USB devices using "sudo lsusb" which provide you the VID and PID of the device.
For my Logitech C270, it gives:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270

Then use the VID and PID to enumerate the properties of the device, looking for "14 Video" entries.
pi@bananapipro:~$ lsusb -d 046d:0825 -v | grep "14 Video"
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
bFunctionClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
bInterfaceClass 14 Video
If you have soem of these, then it can be an UVC Webcam. If not, probably not, and there no way to use it with Octoprint 🙁

(Sources: http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/faq/ )