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Use USB webcam with MotionEye container

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Hi,

I've installed the MotionEye Docker container and attached the USB webcam to it via the extra parameters via:

--device=/dev/bus/usb/002/004

which shows up fine in the container.

But MotionEye fails to detect it as a webcam.
I've read around that a usb webcam is supposed to show up as an /dev/video* device, but it doesn't for me.

Is there any way to get this working without using a VM?

"lsusb" shows:

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:0823 Logitech, Inc.

It's a Logitech C920 (I think). And it works totally fine on my Windows Desktop, so I can confirm it's not broken.

Edited by xorinzor

  • 4 months later...

I just tried the exact same with the same result. Not sure of a work around but it would be good to have Unraid capable of recording from this camera.

  • 1 year later...

Same. I would love to know how to use a USB camera with the a Motioneye docker.

  • 8 months later...

hey guys, just thought i would mention i solved this by installing the `DVB drivers` community app. once its rebooted if your usb webcam is supported it will appear as  `/dev/video0` passing that through fixes the issue

Edited by phyzical

  • 2 years later...
On 2/23/2022 at 7:36 AM, phyzical said:

hey guys, just thought i would mention i solved this by installing the `DVB drivers` community app. once its rebooted if your usb webcam is supported it will appear as  `/dev/video0` passing that through fixes the issue

Thank you! This worked for me in ZoneMinder docker container.

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