![]() First plugin the camera and see if the Raspberry Pi recognises it by entering lsusb in the terminal. You can control a USB webcam both using bash in the terminal and with Python. Nevertheless, there may be reasons why you want to connect a USB camera to your Raspberry Pi, such as because of the benefit that it is much easier to set up multiple camera’s with a single Raspberry Pi (see below). ![]() They can also not be controlled using the raspistill and rasivid commands in the terminal neither by the picamera recording package in Python. USB Webcams generally have inferior quality to the camera modules that connect to the CSI interface. ![]() However, to help you with those cases you still want to use a USB webcam, follow the below guide. In most cases it is best to use a Raspberry Pi camera module. Working with USB webcams on your Raspberry Pi
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