Raspberry Pi with DBPOWER camera?

[Craig321]

I just got a DBPOWER camera, one of those £40 GoPro copies from Amazon. I'm very impressed considering the price!

Would it be possible to hook it up to a Pi for use as an IP webcam / surveillance?

Would I need anything special, or could I just plug it in and hope that Linux finds some drivers?

Thanks

 

[Frozennova]

Most are plug and play, my Logitech cam was.

Try running

ls -l /dev/ | grep video

Assuming you have no video output devices you should see no output

Plug the camera in again and you should should then see a video0 device when running the above command

 

[Craig321]

I'll give it a go, thanks.