Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Hartmann <> | Date | Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:16:56 +0100 | Subject | Request for linux drivers for IDS uEye USB cameras -- we will ship you the hardware and you can keep it |
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Hi all,
as Hans de Goede does not have enough free time to go after this, he asked me to poke the V4L list. As this also concerns Linux in general, I am sending to the Linux Driver Project as well. [0] says to mail prjmgr@ for new projects so I am doing that. Finally, I wasn't sure if mailing LKML would reach people who might reasonably be interested in this offer yet miss it due to not reading the other two lists. I am still unsure but decided to default to the save option especially as one additional email to LKML is a drop in an insanely-sized bucket, anyway.
We have two USB cameras by IDS Imaging [1], the uEye XS [2] and the uEye LE [3] which require a proprietary blob [4] to run under Linux. There is an user-space API of questionable usefulness. We would prefer native V4L support which actually works over said Linux "solution".
The USB IDs are:
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 1409:1645 # uEye U|164xLE-C Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1409:1008 # uEye U|1008XS-C (seems to be a Sony package meant for phones with IDS stuff around it)
The full output lsusb -v can be found at http://paste.debian.net/100555/ - the first entry is my mouse :p
The text on chips on the LE is:
CY22150FZ XC 1007 A 02 609214
2400P ED4Ca
464WP K018
Output from usbmon [5] is attached. It's only 344 kiB in size so I decided to attach it for everyone's convenience. In case any list filters out attachments, just poke me and I'll send them your way.
More stuff:
* We will ship the cameras we bought to you. Preferably to a location where shipping costs are not insane; Europe preferred. You keep the cameras; they are yours. * You try and get pictures out of the cams. We don't need HD or anything. Our use case is criminal investigation so pics don't need to be print perfect. * The XS has auto focus and can somewhat dynamically adapt to different lighting situations. Ideally, this should work. * Hans will advise us on who of the volunteers, if any, are best suited for this. I don't know the V4L community; he does. If we get volunteers via the Linux Driver Project, I don't know how people are selected, but I am happy to go with whatever they propose. * While we know that no guarantees of any kind can be made, we obviously prefer fast results over slower ones. If someone has gobs of time available and is looking for a end-of-year project, that is a huge plus :p That being said, we don't expect miracles. * As the cameras were not cheap, we would appreciate, but do not require, a short mention in the initial commit message[s].
As an aside, if anyone can point us to any small (around thumb size or smaller) cameras, both with really wide angle and narrow angle, that connect via USB, FireWire, or Ethernet and are well-supported under Linux... we are all ears. The pictures will need to be fed into zoneminder, other than that, we don't really care how we get the pics as long as it's reliable and supported for the longer term. One would assume that dozens of webcams would fit the bill, but most of the ones I could find have been EOLed for ages.
Thanks, Richard
[0] http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/foswiki/bin/view/Main/MailingLists [1] http://www.ids-imaging.com/ [2] http://www.ids-imaging.com/frontend/products.php?cam_id=125 [3] http://www.ids-imaging.com/frontend/products.php?cam_id=48 [4] http://www.ueyesetup.de/frontend/files/uEyeupdater/Setup_e.htm [5] http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/usbmon-6.tar.gz [unhandled content-type:application/x-bzip-compressed-tar] | |