Setup USB/External Webcam in Raspberry Pi with OpenCV 4.5
The new raspbian os, Debian bullseye is here, so lets see how we can setup external/ usb webcam in a raspberry pi running on this os. Later, we will also see the installation process of opencv and capture images with the webcam
the commands used int this video are
list the available usb devices: lsusb
install fswebcam: sudo apt install fswebcam
take an image using fswebcam: fswebcam -r 1280x720 --no-banner /home/pi/images/image1.jpg
Install Opencv 4.5 in python 3.9: pip3 install opencv-python