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    Live stream your USB webcam and pi camera

Using the package mjpg-streamer
Installation Instructions

curl -sL https://bit.ly/2A43ZHu | bash -
After installation, close your terminal and restart.
Usage

USB Cameras

Look at https://github.com/OctoPrint/OctoPrint/wiki/Webcams-known-to-work for clues for parameters to pass to mjpg-streamer
for your camera. If you are lucky, you may not need them.
eg. for my Logitech C920
sudo mjpg_streamer -i "input_uvc.so -r VGA -f 10"  -o output_http.so 
If all is good, you should be able to watch the stream in a browser from
http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_PI:8080/?action=stream
HomeAssistant Usage

camera:
  - platform: mjpeg
    mjpeg_url: http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_PI:8080/?action=stream
Documentation

USB Cameras
Raspberry Pi Camera

  
## install-mjpg-streamer.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -xe

sudo apt install -y git cmake libjpeg8-dev libgphoto2-dev
git clone https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer
cd mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -xe

	sudo apt install -y git cmake libjpeg8-dev libgphoto2-dev
	git clone https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer
	cd mjpg-streamer/mjpg-streamer-experimental
	make
	sudo make install
	sudo ldconfig