Have wanted to configure an Xbox 360 camera as a Webcam on a Raspberry Pi. I’ve simple followed the post here.
I wasn’t interested in having the camera capture images with motion, as I want to act more like a traditional webcam that captures an image every set interval. To perform that task you just need to enable the option below in the motion.conf (/etc/motion/motion.conf) and you can test it by running “motion -n” as root (or via sudo).
# Make automated snapshot every N seconds (default: 0 = disabled)
snapshot_interval 120
With the interval set below it will create a file every 120 seconds. You’ll also get a lastsnap.jpg symlink which links to the last/latest capture.
I modified the configuration to also append some text to the webcam capture and overlay it on the picture. A demo of what I captured is below and how it looks.
