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pi-webcam
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geerlingguy / pi-webcam

pi-webcam

Automation to configure a Raspberry Pi as a USB OTG webcam

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What it is

Automation to configure a Raspberry Pi as a USB OTG webcam

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2020-11-02 17:05:46 UTC to 2024-05-16 20:04:45 UTC.

012342020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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jauntywundrkind·May 16, 2024
Sure! There's a USB "uvc" (USB Video Class device) gadget in Linux. https://docs.kernel.org/usb/gadget_uvc.html There is support in gstreamer. The example shows piping the standard test signal out as uvc gadget. https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/uvcgadget/in... There's various write-ups out there for example using a RPi as a USB webcam, using this. These write-ups cover more of the details of - as an end user - setting up/configuring the gadget device. https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-webcam?tab=readme-ov-file#...
In Intel's Thunderbolt Share lets two PCs control each other over a USB cable

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