USB (V4l2) Camera¶

NOTE:

In case you want to enable resizing with USB camera use the videoscale element and specify the height and width parameter in the gstreamer pipeline.

Example pipeline to enable resizing with USB camera:

"pipeline":"v4l2src ! videoscale ! video/x-raw,format=YUY2,height=600,width=600 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=BGR ! appsink"
In case, multiple USB cameras are connected specify the camera using the device property in the configuration file.

Example pipeline to use the device property:

"pipeline": "v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! video/x-raw,format=YUY2 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=BGR ! appsink"

Note: Typically a device node gets created when a USB device is connected to the system. When multiple USB cameras are connected then one needs to identify which device node is mapped to the camera and use that with the device property. Device nodes for the cameras usually gets created in sequence of video0, video1, video2 etc.

Updating Security Context of VideoIngestion Helm Charts for enabling K8s environment to access/detect USB Camera¶

Please follow the steps to update helm charts for enabling K8s environment to access/detect USB Camera

Open EII_HOME_DIR/IEdgeInsights/VideoIngestion/helm/templates/video-ingestion.yaml file

Update below security context snippet

securityContext:
  privileged: true

in the yaml file as:

...
...
...
    imagePullPolicy: {{ $global.Values.imagePullPolicy }}
    securityContext:
      privileged: true
    volumeMounts:
    - name: dev
      mountPath: /dev
...

Re-run builder.py to apply these changes to your deployment helm charts.