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Raspberry Pi v4l2 Camera

Cameras · Security

Partly worksVerified plugin

1 report: 1 says it partly works.

Reported with 1 Homebridge plugin: Camera UI.

What people report

PluginStatusWhat they saidConnectsSource
Camera UI Verified
homebridge-camera-ui
Partly worksAudio errors until video and audio inputs mapped
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For information, here is my conf with an intermediate RTSP Server : In the dockerfile, I defined 3 containers. The first, "rtsp", is the rtsp server. The image I found works on RPi ARM and x86 machines. The second, "ffmpeg-usbcam", is based on the homebridge image to keep the same ffmpeg binary. The start command is replaced by a ffmpeg command that read the v4l2 Camera and audio streams, and send them to the RTSP Server. The third, "homebridge", is the standard homebridge server. [code] Then the config.json file of homebridge is like this : [code] All seems to work with this configuration, …

Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-22.

Local + cloudIssue #331 · 2022-01

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Identifiers

BrandRaspberry Pi
CategoryCameras

Also reported as

  • v4l2 / Raspberry Pi camera with ALSA audio