More Detailed Installation Instructions about webcam-mods

[afland]

I'll have a go at this. what operating systems are you using? I can only test this on Arch Linux. Any specific steps that are the most confusing?

I think instructions for debian/ubuntu based distros would be the most useful as the most noobs use those (including me lol)

[hamidzr]

Adding to this - if you have more than one webcam (e.g. a built-in laptop cam and an external/USB cam) how do you specify which source device to use?

if you have you know what ID the video device you're using has you can provide that using the VIDEO_IN environment variable eg /dev/video0 . ref https://www.serverlab.ca/tutorials/linux/administration-linux/how-to-set-environment-variables-in-linux/

I have a few lines which either uses that or find the first available camera and sets that as the input device here

you can play from a video device using ffplay eg ffplay /dev/video10

[hamidzr]

I recorded a quick screencast here there are a lot of pauses that could be edited but I'm lazy so feel free to skip forward and backward. And let me know if you see something that shouldn't be there..

[afedulov]

+1 I would like to give it a try, but do not have time to reverse engineer the setup. Some basic requirements and first steps would be great to have (pipenv etc.)

[hamidzr]

I'll have a go at this. what operating systems are you using? I can only test this on Arch Linux. Any specific steps that are the most confusing?

[pezhore]

Adding to this - if you have more than one webcam (e.g. a built-in laptop cam and an external/USB cam) how do you specify which source device to use?

[hamidzr]

• added guidance on how to run and configure the different modes by adding cli arguments to entry.py using https://typer.tiangolo.com
• updated the README with available settings and modes

feel free to reopen the issue if you have related questions.