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README.md

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-# droidcam-with-octoprint
+# Droidcam with OctoPrint
 
-Making OctoPrint work with Droidcam
+I'll write setup instructions at some point. Right now I'm tired of all the crap I had to go through to figure this out.
+
+This also expects that you're using OctoPrint's Raspberry Pi image, for other systems you'll probably have to adapt a bit.
+
+### Links
+
+- https://github.com/blueimp/mjpeg-server
+- https://github.com/libimobiledevice/usbmuxd
+- https://github.com/dev47apps/droidcam/issues/6#issuecomment-657677219
+
+### Notes
+
+`/etc/modules`
+```
+v4l2loopback
+```
+
+`/etc/modprobe.d/v4l2loopback.conf`
+```
+options v4l2loopback devices=1 video_nr=1
+```

services/README.md

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+# systemd service files
+
+These should go into `/etc/systemd/user`.

services/droidcam-streamer.service

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+[Unit]
+Description=DroidCam streaming
+BindsTo=droidcam.service
+StartLimitIntervalSec=0
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+# this is cursed
+ExecStart=/home/pi/go/bin/mjpeg-server -a ":8080" -b gaysex -- bash -c 'while [[ true ]]; do gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src device=/dev/video1 ! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=I420 ! v4l2jpegenc ! multipartmux boundary=gaysex ! filesink location=/dev/stdout || true; done'
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+
+# Old transcoding command, ffmpeg hammered the CPU way too much and doesn't have support for the v4l2 mjpeg encoder. gstreamer performs leagues better
+# ExecStart=/home/pi/go/bin/mjpeg-server -a ":8080" -- ffmpeg -i /dev/video1 -fflags nobuffer -an -r 15 -f mpjpeg -q 2 -
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target

services/droidcam.service

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+[Unit]
+Description=DroidCam streaming
+StartLimitIntervalSec=0
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/droidcam-cli -nocontrols -dev=/dev/video1 -size=1280x720 ios 57192
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target