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I'm really learning to hate technology.
I used to be good with it. I used to be smart. Apparently at this point I should sell a kidney and buy a Mac (a used one).
I'm probably just exhausted from learning things that I only ever need to learn once, for one thing, and then I don't have to remember them. But shit it's fucking exhausting.
Every goddamned day it seems is a new "minor hiccup" preventing me from moving forward. I either invest hours of my time to troubleshoot (something that pays worse and worse dividends every single time I do it), or I give up on it.
I would be absolutely fine if being stupid didn't cost vast amounts of money and time.
Getting dumber as I get older is going to make life exponentially more difficult.
You probably want to mute this thread. The frustration is mounting and it's getting harder and harder to not feel stupid.
So I will continue to bitch about it.
Sorry.
If there are any actual experts on getting a DSLR camera to properly work under #Debian I would appreciate a DM. I've read the documentation and done the things that I understand, but there is a lot that I *don't* understand and trying to learn it seems to be an uphill battle.
@roknrol I can't help directly, but I might be able to help you with troubleshooting it. Am I right that this is a USB device? You mention docs, can you link me in?
@cybervegan The only software that's currently recognizing my camera is
Debian does not throw any errors, but I believe that it's recognizing my camera as a mass storage device instead of a video device.
[113953.949829] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
[113954.099368] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04b0, idProduct=043d, bcdDevice= 1.12
[113954.099379] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[113954.099384] usb 1-1: Product: NIKON DSC D3400
[113954.099387] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: NIKON
[113954.099390] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 0000003810192
The software does not seem to have any logging enabled, or if so (it's an AppImage) I'm not sure where it's at. When I run from CLI there's no feedback at all.
The software that's working is too advanced for me - I'm not a Camera person, so I'm trying to get *anything* else to work (Cheese, guvcview, etc)
The documentation that I'm referring to is basically every troubleshooting link that I can find on Google for "DSLR +linux". A lot of which don't really apply to my situation, and almost all "solved" options are being fixed with things like replacing the USB cables.
The options that I'm finding for changing it from a mass storage device to a video device are over my head - more than willing to link them, but there are a whole bunch that I've looked through. A lot of this is just way over my head.
https://jahed.dev/2023/10/22/usb-audio-video-capture-on-linux/
@roknrol Ok, so the kernel seems to be recognising your device, which is a good start. So, to be clear (just so I know what you're trying to achieve), you want to use your DSLR as a "webcam" and take the feed directly over USB?
@cybervegan Yes, that's correct. I still need to sort out audio, but I expect that'll be a lot easier to deal with. The primary issue at hand is using the camera as a webcam.