Comments on: Logitech Quickcam S 5500 for Business with Ubuntu review

By: Régis

Régis — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:22:06 +0000

I have just bought this camera, and yes the plug ‘n play is really bluffing. You can throw away the label stuck to the USB plug, standing”Attention do not use this camera until installation of drivers is completed”

Skype and kopete can use the webcam video stream directly (I had to adjust contrast & luminosity in kopete, though)

By: agn

agn — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:10:05 +0000

Hi,

Have you tried this cam with skype ? If so, does it work out-of-the box with skype ?

By: ninjaneer

ninjaneer — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:18:04 +0000

Ok, it was a while back from memory. I thought it was git but it looks like they changed repository system and moved to Mercurial:

You need the Mercurial package so sudo apt-get install mercurial should get you that. Then in a convenient directory, you can use hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pinchartl/uvcvideo/ which is the checkout command for mercurial.

cd into the uvcvideo directory and issue make all then if everything actually builds correctly, issue sudo make install.

It’s a bit of a cheat doing it this way as you’re actually building the whole uvcvideo driver set too. I think I had the kernel sources installed first as well.

If you can’t build it yourself, you should find better support for the S 5500 in Ubuntu 9.04 in three months or so time.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:27:13 +0000

Sadly, the included luvcview application which allows finer control of the cameras features wasn’t working with the S5500 so I ended up pulling the trunk sources from their git repository and building them myself. This got luvcview working and allowed manual control of the cameras exposure settings.

Can you explain how to do this, step by step, in easy to follow language?