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Windows PSEye Setup

Chadwick Boulay edited this page Sep 13, 2015 · 11 revisions

This plugin uses a custom build of the psmoveapi that relies on the PS3EYEDriver wrapper around libusb. For this plugin to work you will need to use a PSEye camera and that camera will have to be installed on your system using libusb.

Starting with a blank slate

Unplug your camera.

Open device manager. Click on the view menu and tell it to "show hidden devices". Search through the list for any mention of USB Camera-B4.04.27.1 (or similar) and uninstall the driver. Be sure to check the box to also delete the driver files if that box is available. You may have something that looks like the following:

Notice the lack of USB-camera related entries under "Audio inputs and outputs", "Other devices" (not present), and "Sound, video and game controllers".

Plug and Pray

The back of my desktop has 8 USB 3.0 ports. For two of those ports, plugging in the camera does nothing. The camera gets power, but the computer does not respond and nothing shows up in Device Manager.

For another two of those ports, the camera is found but appears only as "Unknown Device". The PSEye microphone is detected normally. See below.

This is OK. You can still use it. I prefer to use one of my other ports because the device manager entry is more descriptive. The method to install the driver is the same in either case.

If I plug the camera into one of the 4 remaining ports, I get the following:

Notice how the device name is now more descriptive for both the yet-uninstall "Other device" and the Sound controller.

Installing the libusb drivers

The full instructions are here. Briefly, download and run Zadig. Select the camera (probably the only option available). To the right of the green arrow, use the up/down arrows to find libusb-win32, then press the "Install Driver" button.

Your device manager should update. You should now have a new category called "libusb-win32 devices".

Further details

Testing

In this repository's Binaries\Win64 folder you should find a program called ps3eye_sdl.exe. If your camera is setup properly then this should show you the images from the camera at 320x240@~187Hz

If you have the PSMove controller paired and connected then please try test_opengl.exe.