webcamd: Adding Linux devices

Tom Evans tevans.uk at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 20 14:53:59 UTC 2012


On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2012 15:10:19 Matt Dawson wrote:
>> How would one go about adding a device driver to webcamd? TBS makes a
>> device called the QBox S2 which comes with full sources for a Linux
>> driver and a firmware file. This would be rather useful with a FreeBSD
>> based mythtv backend.
>
> Hi,
>
> 1) Extract the code, and include the Makefile for the driver into the webcamd
> tree.
>
> 2) Then you build and install the linux_make tool from webcamd tarball.
>
> 3) Add the needed configure options to the "config" file.
>
> 4) Type "make configure"
>
> 5) Then build the port like usual.
>

If you haven't already bought this device, you can also use a Techno
Trend S2 3600, or a Pinnacle PCTV 452e, both of which are USB 2 DVB-S2
devices that work with webcamd out of the box.

Cheers

Tom


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