WL500gPv2 and webcam

[darius]

Hi,
Use pwc driver that comes with the Asus. Ov51x or spca5xx driver will NOT work with PCVC680K. Cheers.

One nice question.
Could you ask ASUS t stop marketing thir products as webcam enabled
and this is not he case.
using code names for webcam is not a good idea as along as Asus is not retail distributor of the same products.

I have already visited many computer shops, ebay, other nternet auction places and there is no chance to buy webcam fit for Asus.

Contacted Asus support team many times and they were very helpful for me
but what I get is a list with codenames and names for webcams in computer shops.

Asus , marketing thweir poducts as webcam enabled in cataloges
generates many trouble and stress to customers in spe, spending hours, days, weeks on tests, which one webcam is the right one.

Recently got from China a long list of webcam poducts - 100 items or so.
So how can I remotely which one is fit for Asus.
Thanks.

Darius

[wpte]

The "rcamd" in fact raise cpu to 100% and keep there until i disconnect the camera.
All i get in logs is the buffer error ...
The image from camera is ok, with no artefacts.
I dont know if is normal, the 100% use of cpu is if camera is accessed or not, when i plug the cam, no matter wich settings/resolution i use ...
I use 2 sec refresh time .

yes I know... the 2seconds is for the website to refresh
the actual webcam almoast takes 4 fps wich kinda overloads the cpu.
the real way to lower the frame rate is this:

killall rcamd
rcamd -s 4 -f 640x480 -p 7777

this thing is quite tricky
type

rcamd -h

to view all the options
this thing now refreshes every 4 seconds, so that's 0.25fps wich lowers the cpu to about 15%
I told oleg about it already, because rcamd isn't a demon, so it's really tricky to start, and it's not stable when you start it yourself.
I had some huge investigation on this, but I still not have a proper webcam working, I can watch it tho... but it only works for a day, then I have to restart.

[jr0]

Hi all,
First of all let me express my regards to this forum, nice job.
Now ... first of all here is my setup first.
I have a Asus WL500gPv2 flashed via tftp with the last oleg's 2-1.9.2.7-10 , boots up fine , works fine except the webcam feature. Now here is my dmesg

Please stand by while rebooting the system...
Decompressing..........done


CFE version 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: Mon Jan 28 10:52:32 CST 2008 (root@localhost.localdomain)
Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003 Broadcom Corporation.

Initializing Arena
Initializing Devices.
Boot partition size = 131072(0x20000)
et0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.130.31.0
CPU type 0x29029: 240MHz
Total memory: 32768 KBytes

Total memory used by CFE: 0x80400000 - 0x80497FF0 (622576)
Initialized Data: 0x8042F370 - 0x80431830 (9408)
BSS Area: 0x80431830 - 0x80431FF0 (1984)
Local Heap: 0x80431FF0 - 0x80495FF0 (409600)
Stack Area: 0x80495FF0 - 0x80497FF0 (8192)
Text (code) segment: 0x80400000 - 0x8042F370 (193392)
Boot area (physical): 0x00498000 - 0x004D8000
Relocation Factor: I:00000000 - D:00000000

Device eth0: hwaddr 00-22-15-26-A4-DE, ipaddr 192.168.10.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Null Rescue Flag.
Loader:raw Filesys:tftp Dev:eth0 File:: Optionsnull)
Loading: TFTP Server.
Failed.
Could not load :: Timeout occured
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Optionsnull)
Loading: .. 3560 bytes read
Entry at 0x80001000
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x80001000
CPU revision is: 00029029
Primary instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes (4 ways)
Primary data cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)
Linux version 2.4.20 (root@localhost) (gcc version 3.2.3 with Broadcom modifications) #18 Sun Mar 30 13:13:29 MSD 2008
Setting the PFC to its default value
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
zone(0): 8192 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd init=/linuxrc console=ttyS0,115200
CPU: BCM5354 rev 3 pkg 0 at 240 MHz
Calibrating delay loop... 237.56 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30092k/32768k available (1862k kernel code, 2676k reserved, 136k data, 72k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: no core
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O]
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0xb8000300 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xb8000400 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision$, maxframe=4096
N_HDLC line discipline registered.
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
PPP BSD Compression module registered
MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered
PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V0.13 (oleg@cs.msu.su)
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.1 at 0x0040
Flash Id: Vendor: 0x00c2 Device: 0x00cb
number of CFI chips: 1
Flash device: 0x800000 at 0x1c000000
Physically mapped flash: squashfs filesystem found at block 784
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00020000 : "boot"
0x00020000-0x007f0000 : "linux"
0x000c4000-0x007f0000 : "rootfs"
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "nvram"
0x003c0000-0x007f0000 : "flashfs"
sflash: found no supported devices
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (256 buckets, 2048 max) - 352 bytes per conntrack
ip_conntrack_pptp version 1.9 loaded
ip_nat_pptp version 1.5 loaded
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_time loading
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.7 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
FAT: bogus logical sector size 41216
FAT: bogus logical sector size 41216
NTFS: Unable to set blocksize 512.
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.150.10.16
eth1: Broadcom BCM4318 802.11 Wireless Controller 4.150.10.16
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device vlan0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(eth1) entering listening state
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering listening state
br0: port 2(eth1) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering learning state
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb8003000, IRQ 6
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, PCI device 14e4:471a
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
ehci_hcd 00:03.1: PCI device 14e4:471a
ehci_hcd 00:03.1: irq 6, pci mem b8003800
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ehci_hcd 00:03.1: illegal capability!
ECHI PCI device 471a14e4 found.
PCI: 00:03.1 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW, correcting to 32
ehci_hcd 00:03.1: USB 0.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
hub.c: new USB device 00:03.1-1, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:03.1-1.1, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x5a9/0x511) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver audio
audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
usb.c: registered new driver ov51x
ov51x.c: USB OV511 video device found
ov51x.c: model: Puretek PT-6007
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
ov51x.c: Sensor is an OV76BE
ov51x.c: Device at usb-00:03.1-1.1 registered to minor 0
ov51x.c: v1.65-1.12-mark : ov51x USB Camera Driver
USB Mass Storage support registered.
vlan1: Setting MAC address to 00 22 15 26 a4 de.
VLAN (vlan1): Underlying device (eth0) has same MAC, not checking promiscious mode.
ov511_decomp.c: v1.6 : OV511 Decompression Module
ov518_decomp.c: v1.3 : OV518 Decompression Module
/... some not so interesting stuff ... /
ov51x.c: init isoc: usb_submit_urb(0) ret -89
PCI devices found:
Class 0501: PCI device 14e4:0800 (rev 3).
Class 0200: PCI device 14e4:4713 (rev 3).
Class 0b30: PCI device 14e4:0816 (rev 3).
Class 0c03: PCI device 14e4:471a (rev 3).
Class 0c03: PCI device 14e4:471a (rev 3).
Class 0500: PCI device 14e4:080f (rev 3).
Class 0280: PCI device 14e4:4318 (rev 3).
Class 0280: PCI device 14e4:4719 (rev 3).
new USB device
echo for PaN ::: &&&PaN

As you can see the camera is OV511 based, works fine under Windows XP. I followed the instructions , lowed the security level , allowed ActiveX control, and when prompted i installed it. Than came the message "Asus NetCam could no connect to server". I tried :

/ # rcamd start
ov51x.c: init isoc: usb_submit_urb(0) ret -89
Unable to open /dev/video: Function not implemented

Any ideas ? Why is not implemented. Will it be ?
Greets from Bulgaria .
Wish you all the best!

[dyonisos]

Is the webcam working when connected directly to the Asus usb port (without the usb hub)?

[jr0]

Is the webcam working when connected directly to the Asus usb port (without the usb hub)?

I don't use any usb hubs, it's directly plugged into the router's usb port. I'll greatly appreciate any info on that matter , so will others , i think.

[jr0]

Well, things are ok now. I've managed to run the camera on my wl500gpV2. Apparently Oleg's v10 firmware lacks the rcamd so I uploaded the modified fimware from some Czech guys with updated wifi driver and support for USB CDMA devices. It's based on Oleg's v10. This firmware has the rcamd , which works with my OV511 based Puretek PT-6007. So this might help other v2 owners as well , but i don't guarantee it. Here is the link. After that follow this tutorial to drop the load from the CPU. All the credit goes to the Czech guys.
Cheers.

[dyonisos]

I unpacked a brandnew wl-500gP to check webcam feature.
I only get black/white colors with a Logitech QuickCam pro 3000 webcam.
original Asus SW (1.9.7.7) driver is pwc8.8.

Shouldn't the webcam feature display colors (more than b/w)?

[darius]

I unpacked a brandnew wl-500gP to check webcam feature.
I only get black/white colors with a Logitech QuickCam pro 3000 webcam.
original Asus SW (1.9.7.7) driver is pwc8.8.

Shouldn't the webcam feature display colors (more than b/w)?

I spent months looking for color webcam to work with Asus.
As webcam is multimedia streaming device - frame by frame with internal frame buffer, it should work alike gps device.
One issue is transcoding, API and tranfer rate.
Mayby Asus processor is to slow to handle video content real-time ?

On the other hand, one can set 1s refresh time so it should work giving enough time for one-frame image de/compression, processing and transfer.

What about Wifi IP enabled webcams ?

Darius

[wpte]

There was another guy in the dutch forums saying his quickcam pro 4000 only shows black and white on the original firmware.

On oleg my quickcam pro 4000 does work with colours tho!
maybe you can give olegs firmware a shot then


and yes, the mipsel processor is too slow, since the minimum specs of the webcam is a celeron 500mhz processor.
But with 300mhz (overclocked) I can get about 4fps@640x480, thats pretty nice
reducing the resolution also works to increase the fps.

didn't found any software to capture it tho (like a security feature).

[dyonisos]

with lowest resolution with orig. Asus SW I get color pictures.

I kicked in Oleg and get color with all resolutions even VGA and a newer pwc9.02 webcam driver.

[darius]

with lowest resolution with orig. Asus SW I get color pictures.

I kicked in Oleg and get color with all resolutions even VGA and a newer pwc9.02 webcam driver.

at what fps rate ?

[bitbreaker]

Hi,

I owned an ASUS WL-500 premium router (V1).
My "project" is to connect a webcam and an usb-stick to the ports and

1) let the router take a snapshot at high resolution (maybe 1600x1200 (2mp), but 1280x1024 will do the job, too) every XX minutes and stores the image (jpg?) to the stick
2) use a lowres version of that picture to provide a traditional (password protected) webcam-page to the internet

the connection from the WL-500 to the internet must initiated by wlan (WPA encrypted possible?) to an access-point or a second WL-500 (this one can take another picture from another view as a second step)

My questions:
- is this possible?
- which firmware (e.g. asus original, openwrt, dd-wrt, oleg, others) would be the best choice for these requirements (I am not aware of cmdline and vi editing, but if there is a fast solution... ;-) ?
- which (actually in stores, not that expensive) webcam will work and fulfill my needs (high resolution that works with the router)?

thank you for your attention and your answers in advance

regards,
bit

[Lesiuk]

Yeah it's posible.

Any supported by OLEG and OPENWRT camera can do that.
You can write script to take photos every xx minutes.

You can write php script to provide lover quality photos on web page.
The best for that will be openwrt with 2.6 kerel but on oleg You can also do it.

If you will chose openwrt i can help you with that (i have experience with UVC)

best regards
Damian Lesiuk

[thejew]

Not sure if resolution higher than 800x600 is possible.... I think 800 x 600 is max.
If you aint got experience with commandline you should use oleg, but theires no way around commandline anyway its just less painfull with oleg (better guides, a basic webinterface and less painfull USB setup).
I can recomend old Philips webcams but as i said they will only work @ 800 x 600 max even if they support 1024 x 768 in windooze.

hope i could help

[bitbreaker]

Hi,

thanks for your answers.
@thejew: I like cmdline, no probs with that :-) Why is it not possible to get pics higher than 800x600?

@all: I put the MSI Starcam racer (1.3MP) and the Logitech Quickcam pro 9000 (2MP) into choice, does anyone have any experiences whith these devices and e.g. openWRT?

thanks in advance,
bit