BiPOM Electronics UVC Quick Start Manual

GadgetPC

Single Board Computer

UVC Web Camera Quick Start Guide

Document Revision: 1.02

Date: 28 June, 2010

BiPOM Electronics, Inc.

16301 Blue Ridge Road, Missouri City, Texas 77489
Telephone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
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All trademarked names in this manual are the property of respective owners.
© 2009 BiPOM Electronics, Inc.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Overview 3

2. Configure UVC camera with Linux Control Panel 4

3. Hardware Setup 7

4. Software setup 8

5. Network Web Camera 10

6. How to embed the remote camera to the user's web page 11

7. Pre-installed software 13

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1. Overview

Thank you for your purchase of the GadgetPC Single Board Computer.
GadgetPC is a powerful computer board that is capable of running high-level operating
systems such as Linux.

This document explains how to start with UVC compliant QuickCam® 3000 for Business
WEB camera from Logitech (

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/business/products/webcam_communications/devices/47
83&cl=us,en ).

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2. Configure UVC camera with Linux Control Panel

In order to configure UVC camera, start Linux Control Panel software from Start -> All
Programs -> GadgetPC -> Linux Control Panel. After Linux Control Panel starts, open

vars.sh file that is located in c:\bipom\devtools\GadgetPC\sh ( if you installed Linux
Control Panel to default path ).

Select File à Open from the menu and open vars.sh file in sh folder. By default, the
program will start from the folder where GadgetPC release was installed.

When you open vars.sh file, you will see configuration group icons such as Hardware &
Peripherals, Software, System and Network.

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Enable and Disable UVC Camera

As next step you should enable UVC camera in Hardware and Peripherals section.
Double click Hardware and Peripherals icon. Go to Peripherals group. In this group you
can configure one variable:

UVC Camera: Select ON or OFF. If you select ON then UVC Camera will be enabled.
Select OFF if you don’t want to use UVC Camera.

This option allows to install appropriate drivers at boot time, so UVC camera can be
reached when Linux is started. As next step you should configure UVC Camera Server
software.

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Configure UVC Camera Server software

Double click Software icon. Go to UVC Camera Server group. In this group you can
configure four variable:

Run UVC Camera Server: Select YES or NO. If you select YES then UVC camera server
will run at boot time. Select NO if you want to disable UVC camera server.

UVC Stream Resolution: Select resolution of the stream. Available options: 320x240 and
640x480.

UVC Stream Port: Here you can set TCP port number for the UVC camera server. By
default this is set to 8080.

UVC Stream Framerate: Here you can set Framerate for the UVC camera server. By
default this is set to 5.

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3. Hardware setup

The setup includes:

- GadgetPC board;

- Logitech UVC web camera;

- D-Link USB Ethernet adapter;

- 2GB USB Flash drive.

The setup allows to connect to a network WEB camera using FireFox, Opera, Chrome
browsers.

NOTE: Internet Exploler does not support the video stream.

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4. Software setup

4.1. Bipom provides the prepared archives under FTP server:

GadgetPC_USB_RootFS_BSVER107_loader.zip
debian_rootfs_12Sep2009.tar.bz2
linux2.60.30.4_12Sep2009.tar.bz2

Account to access BiPOM FTP server:

Host = www.bipom.com
Port = 21
User = bipomftp
Pass = guest123!

4.2. U-boot loader.
In order to run RootFS on USB drive it is necessary to configure U-boot to provide correct

arguments
to Linux kernel. Please read GadgetPC Debian Installation Guide.
If you don’t have access to U-boot console you are able to upgrade the loader using SAM­BA package from ATMEL.
Please read GadgetPC System Installation Guide.
To obtain the loader BIN file please download
GadgetPC_USB_RootFS_BSVER107_loader.zip from FTP server.
The GadgetPC_USB_RootFS_BSVER107_loader.bin file provides the complete loader
support:

- AT91 BootStrap loader;

- U-boot loader;

- U-boot environment.

4.3. Linux kernel and RootFS.
Download the packages to a native Linux machine from BiPOM FTP server.

debian_rootfs_12Sep2009.tar.bz2
linux2.60.30.4_12Sep2009.tar.bz2

Use the following commant to extract files from archive

sudo tar –xvjf debian_rootfs_12Sep2009.tar.bz2
sudo tar –xvjf linux2.6.30.4_12Sep2009.tar.bz2

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Create a dual partition USB flash drive. Please read GadgetPC Debian Installation Guide.
Copy all the files/folders from FAT folder to /media/FAT

sudo cp -R FAT/* /media/FAT
Copy all the files/foders from EXT3 folder to /media/EXT3

sudo cp -R EXT3/* /media/EXT3

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5. Network Web Camera

The Gadget PC is pre-configured to:

- IP address of Device: 192.168.1.210

- Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

- IP address of Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Power the setup.
Try Opera browser to get a snapshot from a camera.

In order to get the video stream just type http://192.168.1.210:8080/?action=stream

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6. How to embed the remote camera to the user's web page

You can also embed the remote UVC camera to web page.
Create your HTML page in any editor and add following HTML code:
<img src="[SERVER IP]:[SERVER PORT]/action=stream" width="[UVC WIDTH]"

height="[UVC HEIGHT]">
where:

[SERVER IP] - IP of remote camera.
[SERVER PORT] - Port number what you entered when configured UVC Camera
[UVC WIDTH] - Width in pixels. Should be the same as you selected when configured

UVC Camera

[UVC HEIGHT] - Height in pixels. Should be the same as you selected when

configured UVC Camera

The example below show HTML code for camera installe don device with IP 192.168.1.20.
The UVC Camera server used port 8080 and resolution is 640x480:

<img src="http://192.168.1.20:8080/action=stream" width="640"
height="480">

Below you can see whole HTML page which will show stream from UVC Camera:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso­8859-1">
<title>Gadget PC UVC stream video</title>
</head>

<body>

<center>
<h1>Gadget PC UVC stream video</h1><br>

<img src="http://192.168.1.20:8080/action=stream" width="640"
height="480">
</center>

</body>

</html>

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7. Pre-installed software

The current package includes the pre-installed SSH and NTP servers.

7.1. NTP server.
If GadgetPC is connected to a network that provides access to Internet the board will get

time from the remote server.

Note. GadgetPC does not provide a hardware clock.

7.2. SSH server.

SSH server is pre-configured to default port 22.
You can login to the board as ‘root’ (password is root).

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