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    Can't seem to get PlayStation 3 Eye Camera to work

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    • J Offline
      jmartin1009
      last edited by

      I was wondering if anyone else has had any trouble getting the PS3 eye camera to work and had a fix. It doesn’t work for me and when I use the asoundrc. method it doesn’t let me open alsamixer or use anything to check to make sure it works. I bought one bc I saw people were having success with the microphone array but I just can’t seem to get it to work correctly. All help is appreciated, thank you!

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        Chris
        last edited by Chris

        Hello,

        Modify your ~ / .asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf files

        sudo nano /etc/asound.conf
        
        sudo nano .asoundrc
        

        with this code:

        # ps3 eye + 3.5mm speaker Raspberry Pi
        ## Suggested by http://julius.sourceforge.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=66
        ## Modified by https://github.com/afzalive
        pcm.jack {
          type hw
          card ALSA
        }
        pcm.array {
          type hw
          card CameraB409241
        }
        pcm.softvol {
          type softvol
          slave.pcm "jack"
          control {
            name Master
            card 0
          }
        }
        pcm.cap {
          type plug
          slave.pcm "array"
          slave.channels 4
          ttable {
            0.0 30.0
            1.1 30.0
          }
        }
        pcm.!default {
            type asym
            playback.pcm "plug:softvol"
            capture.pcm {
              type plug
              slave.pcm "cap"
            }
        }
        ctl.!default {
          type hw
          card 0
        }
        ctl.softvol {
          type hw
          card 0
        }
        

        open a terminal and install pulseaudio:

        sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
        
        sudo apt-get install pavucontrol gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
        
        

        reboot and in the menu of raspbian you should see a tab allowing you to access the pulseaudio settings (sound and video tabs).

        The PS3 mic will appear in it.

        I hope I have been clear in my indications,

        Regards,

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        • J Offline
          jmartin1009 @Chris
          last edited by

          @chris oh wow, thank you! I’m not able to try this right now but I will give it a shot tonight, thank you so much!!

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          • J Offline
            jmartin1009 @Chris
            last edited by

            @chris I’m trying to do it right now but I can’t seem to find a file in etc/ named asound.conf, I can find asound.conf.swp and asound.conf.save, but it says I don’t have permission to rename, edit, or add a new file called asound.conf in the folder so idk what to do about that

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              jmartin1009 @Chris
              last edited by

              @chris also when i tried to do the second line of the pulseaudio install, i got

              pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install pauvcontrol gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
              Reading package lists... Done
              Building dependency tree        
              Reading state information... Done
              E: Unable to locate package pauvcontrol
              

              what do i do to fix this, thanks!

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              • yawnsY Offline
                yawns Moderator
                last edited by

                It is pavucontrol, not pauvcontrol :-)

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                • J Offline
                  jmartin1009 @yawns
                  last edited by

                  @yawns what about the asound.conf file though? I can’t find it or create a new one to put that code in :/ but thanks for the help with the pavucontrol haha I didnt notice I read it wrong

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                    sdetweil @jmartin1009
                    last edited by

                    @jmartin1009 said in Can't seem to get PlayStation 3 Eye Camera to work:

                    asound.conf

                    that file is called .asoundrc
                    it is typically in the users home folder (/home/pi)… note that that the name starts with a dot (.)

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                      Chris @jmartin1009
                      last edited by

                      @jmartin1009 said in Can't seem to get PlayStation 3 Eye Camera to work:

                      @chris also when i tried to do the second line of the pulseaudio install, i got

                      pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install pauvcontrol gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
                      Reading package lists... Done
                      Building dependency tree        
                      Reading state information... Done
                      E: Unable to locate package pauvcontrol
                      

                      what do i do to fix this, thanks!

                      Hello,

                      it is actually pavucontrol and not pauvcontrol as yawms rightly pointed out.

                      the .asound.conf file is a hidden file. right-click in the file explorer window and choose to show hidden files. Normally it will appear.

                      In any case, if there is no sudo nano command .asound.conf in the terminal will create this file.

                      as sdetweil tells you, stick to the point at the beginning of the file.

                      Regards,

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                        jmartin1009 @Chris
                        last edited by

                        @chris @sdetweil @yawns I was able to edit the asoundrc file, but the .conf file wasn’t showing up as I was looking with the hidden files on, the only asound.conf files I could find were asound.conf.swp and asound.conf.save. I’m also kind of confused about how to save a new file in the terminal if I do the sudo nano method, because I was able to get into etc/ from there but it was only trying to have to overwrite a file, not create a new one, if there is a way to create a new file altogether for asound.conf, then I would like to know how to do that because it’s not appearing in hidden files and when I make the file in the terminal it seems like I can only overwrite. Thank you!

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