Dani's Middleware

I spent hours (really) googling on how to switch off the damn LEDs at my camera. I tried guvcview and mjpg-streamer and just before I started to get familiar with Python I found a really helpful entry in a forum which advised to use a control at the camera itself (aka the hardware). And guess what ... the little wheel which I thought was for the volume control was for ... THE LEDs!!! Argh!!!!! ... picture following ...

Dünnes DNS http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamisches_DNS Now I got my own Alias at https://spdns.de /. Works nicely.

I decided that I need my own webserver - not only the embedded on in motion. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apache2 Adding PHP: sudo apt-get install php5  

Yesterday I picked up my camera ( http://www.ebay.de/itm/390641740206 ) from the post office. I powered off my Raspberry, plugged in the little webcam guy and powered up again. Then I checked my camera: pi@raspberrypi:~$ dmesg | grep -i vid [    0.028498] mailbox: Broadcom VideoCore Mailbox driver [    1.329416] vc-cma: Videocore CMA driver [    6.182242] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [    6.628217] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (1e4e:0110) [    7.120691] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [    7.128191] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)   pi@raspberrypi:~$ dmesg | grep input [    6.890757] input: USB2.0 Camera as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input0   Everything seems fine. Installed fswebcam: sudo apt-get install fswebcam First testpicture: fswebcam -v -r "640×480" /home/$USER/t.jpg Installing...