Topic: Camera hack with Chumby or Insignia

Greetings.  I have had a chumby for a few months and recently purchased an Insignia device. (drank the punch with this hardware and the open-source movement behind it)

Has anyone plugged in a USB camera and loaded drivers to show the live camera images on the screen?  I know there are posts about making a streaming server, but I'd like to start with just being able to display the camera image on the local display. 

TIA.

--Ed

Re: Camera hack with Chumby or Insignia

I haven't done that myself, but I seem to recall that the gstreamer v4l2 drivers were left in.  You might be able to construct a pipeline to go from v4l_src to fastoverlaysink.  Something like:

gst-launch v4l_src ! fastoverlaysink

Though that's likely not going to work, it might be a good starting point.

Re: Camera hack with Chumby or Insignia

I heard somewhere that you can solder a camera to the motherboard
try this Camera Hack (infocast)

Re: Camera hack with Chumby or Insignia

You might try downloading and running this module pack that adds some kernel modules for USB cameras.  I'd forgotten they weren't included in the base install.

Re: Camera hack with Chumby or Insignia

Thanks guys.

--Ed