Sony Playstation EyeToy with Raspberry Pi

About

I own a Playstation Eye and wanted to use it as a second camera on my Pi.

How-To

• Plugin
• (Boot)
• Check dmesg for something like this:

[    3.491651] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1415, idProduct=2000, bcdDevice= 1.00
[    3.506960] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[    3.517874] usb 1-1.2: Product: USB Camera-B4.04.27.1
[    3.526393] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.

• or lsusb

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1415:2000 Nam Tai E&E Products Ltd. or OmniVision Technologies, Inc. Sony Playstation Eye
Bus 001 Device 003: […]
Bus 001 Device 002: […]
Bus 001 Device 001: […]

• Install fswebcam

apt-get fswebcam

• Try it:

fswebcam -d /dev/video0 foo.jpg

• If this is not your first camera, try video1 and so on…