Droidcam not working

wmcig

Hi,

I have read several postings in this forum, I tried to find a solution with my search engine and information on the developer page. But nothing helped.

I installed droidcam. After this I needed to install adb and v4l2loopback.

After starting the droidcam app on my android phone, I started droidcam also on the Solus-PC. With the WIFI connection I had almost one second a connection to my phone/droidcam-app. Then it stopped with the error code: Missing video device.

When I start the droidcam app on Solus new then the following message was shown on the screen.

In the Android app I can see the http-URL for the video. I can see this video in an extra browser window.

But I can not get any connection to the phone-camera with the droidcam software.

I also have tried the adb device (USB Debugging) connection. It also failed:

env ANDROID_SERIAL=R58N70KD2NT droidcam-cli adb 4747 Error: Droidcam/v4l2loopback device not found (/dev/video[0-9]). Did it install correctly? If you had a kernel update, you may need to re-install. Audio loopback device not found. Is snd_aloop loaded? Client v1.7.3 Video: connecting to 127.0.0.1:4747 Error: Missing video device

Maybe there is an error in the settings of the used IP address? The IP address of my phone is not the used one for USB connection.

What can i do?

SuperJC710e

wmcig Do you have the modules necessary loading on boot?

I've created the following 2 files to do this for me. (Interpolated from the droidcam installer scripts.)

Note: Having the snd_aloop module loading at boot will likely re-order your sound devices, so you may have to change the devices selected in the Raven panel to be able to control the proper device, such as your speakers, or whatever you controlled before. If you are not using the microphone on your droidcam device, you can safely leave the snd_aloop modules out.

cat /etc/modprobe.d/droidcam.conf

options v4l2loopback video_nr=0
options v4l2loopback card_label="Droidcam"
#options v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1
options v4l2loopback max_width=1920
options v4l2loopback max_height=1080
#options snd-aloop index=0

cat /etc/modules-load.d/droidcam.conf

v4l2loopback
snd-aloop

Hopefully you'll find something helpful in there...

Brucehankins

Do you have the v4l2loopback packages installed? I've had similar issues and came up with a bash alias that functions as a workaround. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling, but keep getting the same error. If I run the script though, it works every time. Use at your own risk, I really have no idea what I'm doing I just know this works for me and hasn't broken anything yet.

alias "dcvideo"= sudo depmod -ae && sudo modprobe v4l2loopback_dc && droidcam

I'm not at my machine, but this is how it's written to the best of my knowledge. I can check tomorrow to be certain if you'd like.

wmcig

The v4l2loopback package is installed, yes.

sudo depmod -ae && sudo modprobe v4l2loopback_dc && droidcam Password: depmod: WARNING: -e needs -E or -F modprobe: FATAL: Module v4l2loopback_dc not found in directory /lib/modules/5.11.22-180.current

Brucehankins

wmcig try removing the _dc and just use modprobe v4l2loooback.