TIP_How_to_use_openwengo_when_you_got_a_tv_card

Introduction

Untill Ekiga gets up to speed , I think that openwengo is the best video conferencing and telephone application. one annoying bug with current openwengo 0.99rev2237 is that you may only use /dev/video0 as your webcam. I have a tv card that is mapped to that path.

I start out reading this: writing udev rules

Step 1: Get more info on your webcam

lsusb

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle 
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0d8c:0001 C-Media Electronics, Inc. 
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000   
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 040a:0002 Kodak Co. DVC-325
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c508 Logitech, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:00db Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0107 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  

Step 2: Using the info

go ahead and write a rule file:

nano /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules 

KERNEL=="video[0-9]*", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="040a", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0002", NAME="v4l/video0" , SYMLINK="video0" , GROUP="webcam"

Step 3: Securing the webcam

groupadd webcam
gpasswd -a USER webcam

Step 4: Switch it on

udevcontrol reload_rules
udevstart

Step 5: Getting info about your tv card

su
udevinfo -a -p /sys/class/video4linux/<video card number>

I just cicked TAB and choose video0 and got the info about the TV card. you may want to run this on another device by choosing a different name.

looking at device '/class/video4linux/video0':
   KERNEL=="video0"
   SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux"
   SYSFS{card}=="10"
   SYSFS{name}=="BT878 video _Hauppauge _bt878__"
   SYSFS{dev}=="81:0"

 looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0':
   ID=="0000:00:08.0"
   BUS=="pci"
   DRIVER=="bttv"
   SYSFS{modalias}=="pci:v0000109Ed0000036Esv00000070sd000013EBbc04sc00i00"
   SYSFS{local_cpus}=="1"
   SYSFS{irq}=="11"
   SYSFS{class}=="0x040000"
   SYSFS{subsystem_device}=="0x13eb"
   SYSFS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x0070"
   SYSFS{device}=="0x036e"
   SYSFS{vendor}=="0x109e"

 looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00':
   ID=="pci0000:00"
   BUS==""
   DRIVER==""

Step 6: Write the rule

KERNEL=="video[0-9]*", BUS=="pci", SYSFS{device}=="0x036e", SYSFS{vendor}=="0x109e", SYSFS{dev}=="81:0", NAME="v4l/video1", SYMLINK="video1 TV_card_878", GROUP="tv"

As you can see I choose to give this device a group named TV. you will need to follow step 3 to create this group and add the user. I also added a second soft link named TV_card_878 so I can indentify it quick.