TomatoUSB

I bought an Asus RT-N16 and flashed with TB's Tomato beta 16, the best firmware for my router at the moment.
With 533m CPU and 128M memory, I think this RT-N16 is power enough for a camera server.
I try to install it myself, but I can't find the right package from this site.
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ddwrt/cross/stable/

I think kamikaze 8.09.2 has the driver for webcam, but I failed to install it on the tomato firmware.

It will be great to have the webcam support right in the tomato firmware.

Thanks!

I agree with this 110%.

This would be an awesome option!

I was literally coming here to post this request when I saw it already here. Please Please Please add this in. I've been looking to do some simple home security and this would be awesome to add in. I currently have the same router. RT-N16.

All you need is the proper kernel module.

Where can I find the TomatoUSB source repository? I would like to build a kernel module for my webcam, but I haven't found the source repository for TomatoUSB.

thanks
/per

per: Where can I find the TomatoUSB source repository?

Did you try looking on the Download page under Source Code? Hint: it's there.

I think this support should start with adding: kmod-video-core, kmod-video-uvc, kmod-video-gspca-core, kmod-video-gspca-xxx to optional kernel modules (extras) package.

from what i've read about this there are a few ways of using webcams with USB routers.

there's a guy @ dd-wrt that did a build for the older webcams but I'm looking for K26 & UVC.
the webcam module i'm interested in is mjpg-streamer.

i keep waiting for some nice person to build a firmware package with all the
webcam stuff built in

here's a link that uses the mjpg-streamer package. check out his example

http://johnarthur.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/a-high-resolution-ip-webcam/

like i said, i'm lazy but i did try a good UVC webcam with mjpg-streamer on my ubuntu 10.04 server and WOW

i used a logitech pro 9000 camera running @ 640 X 480 and can get from 15 to 20 fps as an IP cam

i got this using mjpg-streamer on a command line and then pulling that camera into my Zoneminder camera server

what makes this great is that once you get it going you have a high quality IP cam for less than 200 dollars
using WiFi you could put them anywhere in your house like the Bridged IP cam i have @ the 2nd fwindow

mjpg-streamer has it's own built web page also so you don't need zoneminder.

i knew it ( mjpg-streamer) works well using openwrt.
with openwrt you can even use an OrbitAF and pan and tilt

but as i'm lazy i haven't re-tried openwrt

i still think i read that a few ppl have done webcams in tomato, which is what i'd like to use

so can openwrt packages be used in tomato K26 ?

I've messed with webcams in both K2.4 & K2.6, but on a WL-520GU. Managed to get it working—-enough to grab a few frames. I had to build the necessary kernel modules myself and insmod them manually. They don't get built in any of the standard Tomato builds.

But it always crashed the router in a very short while. Maybe it would be more stable on a router with more than 16MB of ram.

Would you mind sharing the modules for K2.6? I think it should work better on my rt-n16 and wl-500gpv2.
I tried webcam on my wl-520gu with k2.4, it crashed in a short time, but works good on my wl-500gpv2 with k2.4. I don't have the modules for k2.6 to try.
My webcam is Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000, use pwc module. Works good with openwrt k2.6, but no module for Tomato k2.6.