Restart USB camera

alexthesmeus · August 3, 2019, 3:45pm

Hi,
I have a camera powered by raspberry’usb that needs to be restarted. Is it possible to do it thru SSH?

nickrout · August 4, 2019, 12:19am

Is this a USB camera, or is it just powered by the USB port?

alexthesmeus · August 4, 2019, 2:39am

It’s Xiaomi Dafang camera

nickrout · August 4, 2019, 2:42am

I don’t think you can turn the usb power off and on programmatically. However you do have options:

Get a home assistant capable smart plug, put in a usb charger, connect to camera and use the smart plug to turn it off and on.
Use the web interface on the dafang camera to reboot.