webcamd and device numbering

[Waitman Gobble]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Da Rock <
freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> I've been struggling with this on my own for ages now, and I was
> determined to try and sort it myself. But I'll now eat my humble pie and
> ask for some help :)
>
> I have (I believe I have mentioned this before) 5 dvb tuners in a FreeBSD
> server (8.2): 1 cx88, 2 DiVico dual tuners (that totals 4 amongst just the
> DiVico's). I'm using webcamd to use these (thank God I can get away from
> Linux!), and they work fine except I have to run ln -s to link them to the
> right places after every reboot (Only the Divico's use webcamd). So they
> should look like this:
>
> $ls /dev/dvb/
> adapter0    adapter1    adapter2    adapter3
>
> instead:
>
> ls /dev/dvb/
> adapter0    adapter16    adapter24    adapter8
>
> This is a real problem because 1. MPlayer only accepts 0-4, and 2.
> GStreamer (including xine) only accept 1-16.
>
> I tried working out how to resolve the issue any sane way; and then I
> resorted to some quick hacks. I tried uding devfs.rules for links before I
> found out it can't do that at all. devfs.conf is no good, as it sets them
> up to begin with. And running some commands in rc.local didn't work: `ln -s
> /dev/dvb/adapter8 /dev/dvb/adapter1` and so forth.
>
> I googled and googled and there seem to be no real fix as webcamd won't
> work without hal and relies on it for the numbering (but borks it
> continuously). I've tried updates and so forth, but all to no avail. I'm
> not too worried about a permanent fix because hal's death bells have
> tolled, but I do need to fix this as it is really getting annoying now -
> the server is on continuously but can go down from time to time and catches
> the unwary :) (like when a scheduled recording which requires say adapter1
> finds it no longer there)
>
> I'm using webcamd-3.2.0.2, which I recently updated.
>
> Cheers
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Hi,

maybe cron job that runs once a minute and checks/fixes? maybe overkill but
probably not noticeable to system performance,... .

Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA