Mutliple Webcams

[Richard_Riffel]

I'm trying to set up a USB webcam alongside the internal PiCam. Trying to understand the plumbing on the webcam interface to octoprint so I can setup the software to use multicam plugin, I'm assuming I need to set up a 2nd stream and point multicam to it. so my question is what/where is a good reference to the underlying software or configuration to enable this.

I've looked at motion, and some other capabilities but they aren't specific to Octoprint - it's more generic "how to set up a webcam" - but it's only one.

any advise or tips?

[TTalkington]

Setting up multiple webcams in OctoPi the right way

There's a lot of tutorials and youtube videos around about 'How to setup multicam on OctoPi', and in most of these they involve copying the service files and webcamd, editing some paths and ending up duplicating all the code and manually editing it. However, since OctoPi 0.17 support for configuring multiple cameras is available out of the box, which is much simpler to get going and a lot less likely to cause issues. Multicam setup You can setup as many cameras as you like using this method, j…

[OllisGit]

Hi @Richard_Riffel,

I am also using a PiCam and an USB Cam (Endoscope), so I wrote a small summary of a linked forum-article:

OctoPiTipps · OllisGit/OctoPrint-KnowledgeBase Wiki

You should read the full article...it's long, but valuable:

Setting up multiple webcams in OctoPi the right way