Binaries and Systemd Service to load PS5 Camera firmware

CPP binary and firmware generated from PS5-Camera-Firmware-Loader. Built on Fedora 38, and tested on Fedora 38/39.

Instructions

Install v4l2-ctl and inotify-tools (dependency):

sudo dnf install v4l-utils inotify-tools

Copy folder ps5cam/ to /opt:

sudo cp -R ps5cam /opt/

Link Files to the systemd locations

NOTE: The script has lots of assumptions that are typical defaults of Fedora 38 and characteristics of the PS5 Camera. It assumes the camera will be recognised as /dev/video0.

Link the script and the systemd service unit file to the appropriate locations:

sudo ln -s /opt/ps5cam/ps5cam-load-firmware.sh /usr/local/bin/ps5cam-load-firmware.sh
sudo ln -s /opt/ps5cam/systemd/ps5cam.service /etc/systemd/system/ps5cam.service

Set Correct Permissions

Ensure the script and service file have the correct permissions:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/ps5cam-load-firmware.sh
sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/ps5cam.service

Reload systemd and Enable the Service

Reload systemd to pick up the changes you've made:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Enable the service to run at startup:

sudo systemctl enable ps5cam.service

Start the Service

You can start the service manually to test if everything is working as expected:

sudo systemctl start ps5cam.service

Thanks

To Raleigh Littles for his work on the firmware loader
To ChatGPT to help with the generation of this README file. (The trick to get it to generate Markdown source is to prompt: "you should not display the processed markdown with the source, just show the source of your text as a markdown document in plain text so I can copy it")