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USB Camera Common Manual

USB Camera

Common Manual

CONNECT TO PC

1. Install camera software. Download the amcap software and install it on your computer.

2. Connect the camera to PC. Open the Amcap software. The window will show the image

captured by camera.

Note: The software we provide is just used for testing.

CONNECT TO RASPBERRY PI

1. Install image for Raspberry Pi, we take Raspbian as example.

2. Connect USB camera to Raspberry. And we use mjpg_streamer to take the video.

3. Check whether the camera is connected properly and recognized:

ls /dev

4. If Video0 is listed with the command, it means that the camera is recognized. If you cannot

find the device Video0, please re-plug the camera and try again.

4. Install necessary libraries:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev

sudo apt-get install libv4l-dev

5. Download the software mjpeg-streamer, and copy it to the boot of TF card. Power on your

Raspberry Pi and upzip it to /home/pi

tar zxvf /boot/mjpeg-streamer-master.tar

6. Enter the corresponding folder which you unzip

cd mjpg-streamer-master/mjpg-streamer-experimental/

7. Execute the command:

USB Camera Common Manual

./mjpg_streamer -i “./input_uvc.so -r 800x600” -o “output_http.so -w ./www”

8. Open browser and enter the IP address of your Raspberry Pi

for example: 192.168.1.63:8080

You need to change “192.168.1.63” to the exact IP address of your Raspberry Pi. Then you could

see that the Stream will display the image captured by camera.