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Fix for ps3 eye microphone on a raspberry pi requiring a physical unplug / reconnect on reboot to be useable as capture device
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Logically eject and re-enable driver for Playstation Eye on a Pi running Raspbian Jessie. | |
| # This is necessary because on boot, the microphone on the Eye will appear in `lsusb` and | |
| # `arecord -l`, but will not function correctly (error "audio open error: Device or | |
| # resource busy" or error "read error: Input/output error"). | |
| # Can read about others having this problem here https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=14903 | |
| # and here https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=15851&p=160394#p160394 | |
| # point a cronjob to this file, using the special @reboot nickname to run at startup. |