How-To

4 Responses to How-To

  1. Ungi says:

    Hi
    & congrats. Great stuff.
    Some questions:
    You wrote you are using a C270.
    The quality of your pics is fantastic. I couldn’t get over 352×288, otherwise the cam stopes randomly.

    So what distro/ software are you using?
    Thanks, Ungi

    • dave says:

      Larger photos cause the camera to take more current for longer from the USB 5V line. So I think you’re using an older board with the thermal fuses. Short them out. See on the web (e.g. my first Pi flight) for details.

      I use the latest Raspbian. I used Debian before and that had a USB lockup that would happen randomly, often after a few hours.

      Dave

  2. Ungi says:

    Thanks for your quick response.
    I have a newer Raspi with 512MB Ram, working as a home server,
    so I’ll try this thingi as the webcamserver. Thanks again, also for the fuse tip.
    But I must say, (without trying yet) that I had the same habbit (dieing randomly) when using an USB-Hub. Used always the uptodate Raspbian and the newest Hexxeh-kernels.

    Ungi

  3. Ungi says:

    Hi Dave
    thanks for your advice. My tests had no success with a uptodate 512Mb Pi without the USB fuses. What I then recognized, I tried without Wlan, was it was working some minutes longer. I also tried an USB-hub, also faulty.

    So; I’ve given up. Thanks again.

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