Free logitech software for linux

This project is to produce drivers for the Logitech Quickam Express that will run popular linux software, such as video for linux.

This site hosts the Linux driver for the QuickCam Express and other QuickCam-related and QuickCam-compatible USB web cameras. The original work was done by Georg Acher and was known as qce-ga; Jean-Frederic Clere took that driver and created the first Video4Linux (V4L) driver, enabling popular V4L applications such as Xawtv to display pictures from the webcam. Since then, a group of developers around the world have evolved the driver into its current state, adding support for new cameras and chipsets as they have become available. In the process, the driver became known as qc-usb to reflect the fact that it supports a wide variety of USB-attached QuickCam cameras, not just the QuickCam Express.

The qc-usb driver supports the following webcams:

Dexxa Webcam
Labtec Webcam (old model)
LegoCam
Logitech QuickCam Express (old model)
Logitech QuickCam Notebook (some models)
Logitech QuickCam Web

Generally, any USB camera with a USB vendor ID of 0x46d and a USB product ID of 0x840, 0x850, or 0x870 (so, 0x46d:0x840, for example), should work. You can see the USB ID using operating system utilities such as lsusb in Linux.

lomoco is a fork of lmctl, since we were not able to get in contact with the lmctl developer.
lomoco can configure vendor-specific options on Logitech USB mice (or dual-personality mice plugged into the USB port). A number of recent devices are supported.
The program is mostly useful in setting the resolution to 800 cpi or higher on mice that boot at 400 cpi (such as the MX500, MX510, MX1000 etc.), and disabling SmartScroll or Cruise Control for those who would rather use the two extra buttons as ordinary mouse buttons.
Report New Mouse
Send us the ouput of the following commands to the developer mailing list (see below):
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
lsusb -v
We need the name of the mouse and the model name too. You can find on the hardware, look for M/N: ...
If it is a cordless mouse, we need the model name from both the mouse and the receiver! What kind of receiver is it (bluetooth)?
Enhancements:
- The udev rules and script have been updated for the latest version.
- A patch has been added for the MX518, MX510, MX310, and MX3100.
- A lomoco.xml man page template has been added. udev support has been updated.
- Memory leaks have been fixed.

Gqcam is a Linux clone of the QuickPict software that comes with the QuickCam. Originally it was written using GTK+ for the frontend, Alex Belits qcread for the backend, and a bunch of C to tie it all together.
It still uses GTK+ for the frontend, but as of version 0.2 it uses the Video4Linux interface as a backend. To compile it you will need GTK+, a Quickcam (one of the old greyscale parallel port ones), and a computer running Linux with Video4Linux support for the Quickcam compiled in or as a module.
It is currently fairly early in development, and now works with both the color and greyscale QuickCam. No, that doesnt include the QuickCam VC or any other ones (that I know of). Unfortunatly, Logitech/Connectix dont want to let us know how their new cameras work..
Main features:
- Brightness Control
- White Balance Control
- Contrast Control
- 3 Size Settings
- 2 Depth Settings
- Freeze Picture
- Snap Picture (saves in png, ppm and jpeg format)
- Command-line interface (good for webcam use)
- Snapping on a timer
- Support for the greyscale and color Quickcam, as well as CPiA based cameras and most any other driver that supports the read() command
The cameras I have gotten gqcam to work with or have had other people tell me it works with are:
- Greyscale Quickcam
- Color Quickcam
- Anything listed below this line I have not tested and know very little about
- Ezonics EZcam
- Creative Web-Cam II
- Philips USB PCVC675K
- Webcam III
- TerraCAM USB
- Plustek OptiCam 300U

Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Or in other words, it can detect motion.
The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system.
Motion is a command line based tool. It has absolutely no graphical user interface. Everything is setup either via the command line or via a set of configuration files (simple ASCII files that can be edited by any ASCII editor).
The output from motion can be:
- jpg files
- ppm format files
- mpeg video sequences
Main features:
- Taking snapshots of movement
- Watch multiple video devices at the same time
- Watch multiple inputs on one capture card at the same time
- Live streaming webcam (using multipart/x-mixed-replace)
- Real time creation of mpeg movies using libavcodec from ffmpeg
- Take automated snapshots on regular intervals
- Take automated snapshots at irregular intervals using cron
- Sending an e-mail when detecting movement
- Sending a SMS message when detecting movement
- Execute external commands when detecting movement
- Motion tracking
- Feed events to an MySQL or PostgreSQL database.
- Feed video back to a video4linux loopback for real time viewing
- Web interface using Motion Related Projects such as motion.cgi, Kenneths Webcam Package, Kevins Webpage, X-Motion and many more.
- User configurable and user defined on screen display.
- Control via xml-rpc - small control binary to control motion while running
- Automatic noise and threshold control
- Ability to control the pan/tilt of a Logitech Sphere (or Orbit) camera
- Highly configurable display of text on images.
- High configurable definition of path and file names of the stored images and films.
Enhancements:
- V4L2 devices are now supported along with V4L2_bayer, SN9C10X, MJPEG, and UYVY.
- Device status was enhanced.
- Debian packaging was improved.
- The SWF codec for movie creation was added.
- ucvideo track pan/tilt support was added.
- A FreeBSD directory for building ports was added.

QuickCam VC is a video4linux driver for the Connectix QuickCam VC. This project is intended to provide a linux driver only, it is not intended to (and cannot) substitute Connectix/Logitech Windows drivers.
When Logitech will develop a Linux driver for that cam, the authors of this project will be very happy to live them the scene.
This software is a result of a large work amount of identification/intuition outside the usb port, and it isnt based on Logitech programming documents. So this driver can damage your QuickCam.You can use it at your own risk. Unfortunately there isnt free Logitech specifications about the webcam.
Enhancements:
- Adds support for recent 2.6 kernel versions

G15daemon takes control of the Logitech G15 keyboard, allowing the use of all keys through the Linux kernel input device driver.

It also controls the use of the keyboards LCD display, allows multiple client applications to connect, and gives the user the ability to quickly switch between LCD client applications.

G15Daemon uses libg15 from g15tools for keyboard control.

PWC-Config is a graphical user interface for configuring all Web cameras supported by the PWC driver.

The following cameras are currently supported by this driver:

PCA645VC
PCA646VC
PCVC675K "Vesta"
PCVC680K "Vesta Pro"
PCVC690K "Vesta Scan"
PCVC720K/40 "ToUCam XS" (!)
PCVC730K "ToUCam Fun"
PCVC740K "ToUCam Pro"
PCVC750K "ToUCam Scan"
Askey VC010
Creative Labs Webcam 5
Creative Labs Webcam Pro Ex (soon)
Logitech QuickCam 3000 Pro
Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro
Logitech QuickCam Notebook Pro
Logitech QuickCam Zoom
Samsung MPC-C10, MPC-C30
Sotec Afina Eye
Visionite VCS UM100, UC300

To install follow these steps:

First, as your normal user, type in the following:
./configure
make

Once that finishes, the program will be installed into the src directory.
Alternatively, by logging in as root you can install it into
/usr/local/bin/cam by typing:

make install

GNOME Power Manager gets all information from HAL using information from org.freedesktop.Hal. GNOME Power Manager does not do independent probing for data, it relies on HAL, in this way it can stay very lightweight and uncomplicated. GNOME Power Manager goal is to be architecture neutral and free of polling and other hacks.
Power management in Linux sucks. Depending if you are running a PPC or i386 PC the different power management facilities are vastly different. To get your machine to suspend on lid press is already possible, but is difficult to know what config files to modify.
To get your LCD screen brightness set to 50% when you remove the AC Adapter of your laptop is probably possible with a clever little Perl script, but is not something that comes ready configured on a standard Linux distro.
Any of these things need the user to become the super-user to do the action. This needs to change before Linux is accepted as a contender for the corporate desktop.
Main features:
- Laptop batteries
- AC Adapters
- APC UPSs
- SynCE PDAs
- Logitech Wireless Mice
- Logitech Wireless Keyboards
GNOME Power Manager owns the session D-BUS service net.sf.GnomePower and runs a session daemon (i.e. once per logged in user) and optionally displays battery status and low battery notifications.
The session daemon is very resource friendly. Other than the initial coldplug, it uses internal caching for all the power devices, so no additional lookups are needed for each update event. It will only update the displayed icon on a powerState change, but will update the tooltip on every percentage change. It should use *very little* CPU and memory.