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Colin Dean
Asked: 2011-12-07 17:43:13 +0800 CST

How can I control the pan, tilt, lighting, and other features on a Logitech QuickCam Orbit/Sphere AF webcam?

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When the Logitech QuickCam Orbit/Sphere AF webcam is in use on Windows, a little window pops up enabling pan, tilt, zoom, and lighting control. This applet works outside of the program currently capturing video.

Is there a similar, full featured control program available for Linux?

I did find the CLI uvcdynctrl and a simple python/tk GUI program pyuvcdyncrtl.py, which wraps around it, but pyuvcdyncrtl.py can't control the dynamic lighting, zoom, or other features.

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2 Answers

  1. Command-line use

    To see a complete list of the possible settings for your webcam, do

    uvcdynctrl -cv -d /dev/video2

    Notice you need to specify the device to use, default=video0, but can also be video1, video2... In my computer for example is video2.

    Pan camera

    To the left:

    uvcdynctrl -d /dev/video2 -s 'Pan (relative)' 1

    To the right:

    uvcdynctrl -d /dev/video2 -s 'Pan (relative)' -- -

    To reset pan:

    uvcdynctrl -d /dev/video2 -s 'Pan Reset' 0

    And so on...

    Graphical use

    With viewer

    guvcview

    Without viewer of during use (with cheese for example)

    guvcview -o
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  2. Best Answer

    You can try 'guvcview' for pan/tilt control.

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