Using a video capture usb stick with Linux / Ubuntu

Three weeks ago i ordered a video capture usb stick at banggood and today it arrived:

So will this device work with my ubuntu?

I inserted the stick on my laptop and dmesg showed:

[123483.143071] hid-generic 0003:534D:0021.0002: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device [MACROSILICON AV TO USB2.0] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1/input4

That was all...
But there was a module missing:

modprobe uvcvideo

and after that:

[125822.751366] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 19 using xhci_hcd
[125822.901442] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=534d, idProduct=0021
[125822.901449] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[125822.901454] usb 1-1: Product: AV TO USB2.0
[125822.901458] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: MACROSILICON
[125822.901478] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 20150130
[125822.902702] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device AV TO USB2.0 (534d:0021)
[125822.902835] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
[125822.904681] uvcvideo 1-1:1.0: Entity type for entity Processing 2 was not initialized!
[125822.904691] uvcvideo 1-1:1.0: Entity type for entity Camera 1 was not initialized!
[125822.911070] hid-generic 0003:534D:0021.0004: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device [MACROSILICON AV TO USB2.0] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1/input4

Checking with

root@zerberus:~# ffmpeg -sources |grep video
Auto-detected sources for video4linux2,v4l2:
  /dev/video1 [AV TO USB2.0]
  /dev/video0 [HD WebCam: HD WebCam]

plus:

root@zerberus:~#  ffmpeg -list_formats all -i /dev/video1

[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0x55b0d1ca38c0] Compressed:       mjpeg :          Motion-JPEG : 480x320 640x480 720x480
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0x55b0d1ca38c0] Raw       :     yuyv422 :           YUYV 4:2:2 : 480x320
/dev/video1: Immediate exit requested

Now i was able to open /dev/video1 with VLC:

The video came from a camera connected via TS832 --[5.8GHz]--> RC832...

Smartphone: Installing lineageOS + Googles Play Store (and getting 9GB system space freed up)

After installing TWRP as bootloader i was wondering, how much effort is is to install an alternative to android on my old smartphone.

Heimdall & ADB were in place (see TWRP posting) - so let's start!

I downloaded the appropriate image from https://lineageos.org/ and i did the following on my smartphone:

Click on "Wipe"

 Click on "Format Data"

 Type "Yes"

 Wait

 Step two times back and click "advanced wipe"

Choose "Cache" and "System" and swipe to the left

Step back to home screen and choose "Advanced"

 Swipe to the left

and then type:

sudo ./adb sideload ~/Downloads/lineage-16.0-20200325-nightly-a3xelte-signed.zip 

[sudo] password for schroff: 

Total xfer: 1.02x                                                                                  

and then REBOOT...
(if you want a clean lineage OS)

If you want the google play store, then go to https://opengapps.org/

Download the appropriate package (i chose "pico" - https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Package-Comparison)

Then repeat the steps on TWRP (smartphone) for sideloading and type

sudo ./adb sideload ~/Downloads/open_gapps-arm-9.0-pico-20200403.zip

Total xfer: 1.43x                      

And after that the smartphone starts up with lineage OS and play store (To avoid problems: do not connect to mobile networks neither wifi within the startup wizard - this can result in a black screen and the wizard will never end).
The best thing: with Samsungs stock Android about 13GB was blocked by the system. Now only 4GB from 16GB are used. So i got additional 9GB free space. Really cool!

Using a custom bootloader for my smartphone: TWRP on Samsung Galaxy A3

I read about /e/ some days ago and i decided to install this on my old smartphone (a samsung A3).

So first: What is /e/?
https://doc.e.foundation/

So i started at

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/a3xeltexx/install
where i learned, that i have to install a custom bootloader on my smartphone. This is very good explained at /e/:

(You will find there the description how to install "heimdall" and "adb")

schroff@zerberus:~/bin$ sudo ./heimdall flash --verbose --RECOVERY ~/Downloads/twrp-3.3.0-0-a3xelte.img --no-reboot
Heimdall v1.4.2

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Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
      Manufacturer: "SAMSUNG"
           Product: "Gadget Serial"

            length: 18
      device class: 2
               S/N: 0
           VID:PID: 04E8:685D
         bcdDevice: 021B
   iMan:iProd:iSer: 1:2:0
          nb confs: 1

interface[0].altsetting[0]: num endpoints = 1
   Class.SubClass.Protocol: 02.02.01
       endpoint[0].address: 83
           max packet size: 0010
          polling interval: 09

interface[1].altsetting[0]: num endpoints = 2
   Class.SubClass.Protocol: 0A.00.00
       endpoint[0].address: 81
           max packet size: 0200
          polling interval: 00
       endpoint[1].address: 02
           max packet size: 0200
          polling interval: 00
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...

Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.

Beginning session...

Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...
WARNING: Empty bulk transfer after receiving packet failed. Continuing anyway...
PIT file download successful.

Uploading RECOVERY
0%ERROR: Failed to unpack received packet.

ERROR: Failed to receive file part response!
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RECOVERY upload successful

Ending session...
Releasing device interface...

and then:

For more information take a look at https://twrp.me/