I with to use my android smartphone as a webcam for my PC.
See:
so Pamac built Iriun.
from Google play store I installed Iriun on my smartphone
Then I ran Iriun on PC
but it prompted “Initialization failed” and suggested to run this command:
$ sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1
modprobe: FATAL: Module v4l2loopback not found in directory /lib/modules/5.8.16-2-MANJARO
Solution? With or without Iriun?
Thanks
Did you actually install the v4l2loopback module? v4l2loopback-dkms in pamac.
It works in my case. yay picks up v4l2loopback-dkms dependency and install it automatically.
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback exclusive_caps=1
works fine and Iriun can run OK. 4K is a bit laggy but I guess it depends on your router.
Pamac says v4l2loopback-dkms 0.12.5-1 is installed
and it is so by default, I did not manually installed it
$ sudo modprobe -a v4l2loopback
modprobe: WARNING: Module v4l2loopback not found in directory /lib/modules/5.8.16-2-MANJARO
[toshpc@toshpc ~]$ sudo modprobe -D v4l2loopback
modprobe: FATAL: Module v4l2loopback not found in directory /lib/modules/5.8.16-2-MANJARO
[toshpc@toshpc ~]$ sudo modprobe -V
kmod version 27
+XZ +ZLIB +LIBCRYPTO -EXPERIMENTAL
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