I want to create a USB gadget with a raspberry pi zero 2W. I’m starting with imitating a webcam I already have to see how much of this I can figure out. I’ve used the online documentation and a couple AI bots to get this far quickly, but I’m hung up on a ln command. It’s telling me “ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘configs/c.1/uvc.usb0’: No such file or directory” when trying to create the link. This makes no sense to me though. I’m trying to create the link, of course it doesn’t exist yet. That’s what that command is supposed to do.

I’ve confirmed this problem in alpine linux and raspbian lite.

Below is the little script I have so far just to create the device:

#!/bin/bash
modprobe libcomposite
cd /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/
mkdir -p fauxcam
cd fauxcam
echo 0x046d > idVendor  # Logitech Vendor ID
echo 0x094b > idProduct # Brio 105 Product ID
echo 0x0200 > bcdUSB
echo 0x9914 > bcdDevice
mkdir -p strings/0x409
echo "111111111111" > strings/0x409/serialnumber
echo "Brio 105" > strings/0x409/product
mkdir -p configs/c.1/strings/0x409
echo "UVC Configuration" > configs/c.1/strings/0x409/configuration
echo 250 > configs/c.1/MaxPower
mkdir -p functions/uvc.usb0
ln -s functions/uvc.usb0 configs/c.1/
echo "usb0" > UDC
  • muusemuuse@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Looking at those units I noticed something… ExecStart=/usr/bin/ln -s ${GADGET}/functions/uvc.0 ${GADGET}/configs/a.1/

    It’s an a.1 instead of a c.1. Surely it couldn’t be as simple as just using a different letter, could it?

      • muusemuuse@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Once I crack this, I think it could be fun to create a script that could spoof devices plugged into it with the gadget framework. Could save me a lot of trouble creating known-working usb configs down the road. Instead of starting from scratch each time, I would just have to tweak an existing profile.

          • muusemuuse@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Honestly it’s just an idea to suck up time at this point. I do NOT have the skills for this shit, as we can see here. I can correct what ChatGPT gets wrong though and just run with that.

            • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              2 days ago

              You should definitely try with the systemd-gadgets I linked earlier. It makes all the configuration really easy, you just need to enable the relevant services, so in your case usbgadget-func-uvc.service and gadget-start.service. You also need to copy them beforehand to /etc/systemd/system, including gadget-init.service, and you need to copy gadget to /etc/default/gadget, and the scripts gadget-start.sh and gadget-init.sh to /etc/systemd/scripts. Edit /etc/default/gadget to edit the configs and names of the gadget, and then start gadget-start.service. No need to enable gadget-init.service, it’s called as a dependency from other services.

              There’s an install script in the repo that you can use as well, setup.sh, and a PKGBUILD so you can create an Arch package. After installing with either method, just change /etc/default/gadget, enable the uvc and gadget start services, and then just start the gadget start service.

              • muusemuuse@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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                1 day ago

                there is no setup and the instructions for a manual install keep getting me weird complaints from systemd about dependancies. It occurs to me that tackling this is error doesn’t make sense because it requires systemd to work and ultimately I want to run this on a diskless alpine linux install which doesnt use systemd.

                • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                  1 day ago

                  Sorry, my bad, I forgot that the setup script isn’t part of the default repo and is something I added in my own fork. But yeah, if there’s no systemd, it’s no use.

                  I can whip up a quick script that should work, I’ll test it out on my own hardware, and post it here for you sometime tomorrow.