No webcam image in Mainsail

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Hi Folks,

I am trying to get a webcam working on my setup, but I can’t get it running… I followed the steps in the mainsail docs, but no result.

It’s a old webcam, a logitech quickcam notebook pro (no further info on the device itself)
2022-09-04 16_09_57-logitech quickcam notebook pro at DuckDuckGo – Mozilla Firefox

I can find it on the pi:

2022-09-04 15_50_02-pi@mainsailos_ ~
2022-09-04 15_50_02-pi@mainsailos_ ~1410×145 7.89 KB

added this to webcam.txt:

camera="usb"
camera_usb_options="-r 640x480 -f 10 -d /dev/v41/by-id/usb-046d_08b1-video-index0"

and tried to add the device as not working with -f

additional_brokenfps_usb_devices=("046d:08b1")

restarted the webcam, the whole pi etc… all with no succes…

2022-09-04 15_52_35-4% Printen - ETA_ 17_13 - CE5P_ringing_tower.gcode – Mozilla Firefox

someone that can point me in the right direction?

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is [youripadress]:8080/?action=stream working so far? Is the camera working at all? I had a lot of trouble with the webcams, so maybe I can tell you, what I was doing. Is the screencopy (black 0 FPS) from Fluidd/mainsail? If the connection is wrong, Fluidd shows a “broken link” icon for the camera. Is the …-video-index0 correct? my adress is …-video0 or -video3 (I use 2 Webcams on one host)…

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Why would you put it in a TXT file???

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Maybe it’s the way of doing?

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yes it looks like some of the programs actually use a .txt file as the config.cfg file.
I wonder if this guy ever got his fixed. I was