OSMC and Webcam

Help and Support
1

Hi,

I was running Raspbian on Raspberry PI 3 with Kodi 15 as media center.
On Raspbian, I also setted up Transmission and MotionEye with my old USB webcam, Logitech Quickcam Fusion. Everything worked fine.

But I wanted to experience Kodi 17 with something simple and keeping maximum ressources for mediacenter. So I decided to test OSMC that offers exactly what I want (Transmission, Samba, SSH, … and Debian based OS)

I’m now facing a problem, my USB webcam is not recognised by OSMC… :frowning:
It doesn’t appear with ‘lsusb’ command whereas it was OK on Raspbian without doing anything.

Could someone help me (taking account that i’m not a Linux expert… :wink: )
Thanks in advance for your help

2

Even the ID is not shown? Or just the name missing?
Do you still have the raspian install? Can you share the lsub from the raspian and from OSMC?

3

Above lsusb form OSMC

osmc@osmc:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0480:a00c Toshiba America Info. Systems, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
osmc@osmc:~$

I’m not near my raspberry (I’m at work :wink:), but I still have SD Card with Raspbian. I will send you lsusb from Raspbian tonight.

I precise that devices connected to my Raspberry are :

  • External TOSHIBA HDD 2To
  • Dongle for my wireless keyboard (Logitech K400)
  • Webcam Logitech Quickcam Fusion
4

Is your powersupply up for the job? Are you using a powered hub for all this?

5

With Raspbian, 2.5A was enough to power all these devices.
I even tried with a powered usb hub but i have the same issue

6

I’ve tried again with another powered usb hub and this time it’s working fine !
I don’t understand why a powered usb hud is required with osmc whereas it’s not necessary with raspbian…
But the most important is that I can use at the sametime Kodi and Motioneye.
Thank you for your help.

7

osmc is rendered with OpenGL ES and uses the Pi’s 3d hardware.
Raspbian doesn’t use the 3d hardware by default.

8

Thanks for the explanation !