ps-camera

Make a PlayStation camera (OmniVision OV580 — PS4 / PS5) just work on ALT Linux.
Install one package, plug the camera into USB 3.0, forget.

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Project status: verified only on the PS5 camera so far. The PS4 camera should work the same way but is untested.

This is the meta-package. It pulls in everything needed for full plug-and-play support and a settings GUI:

Package	Role
ps-camera-firmware-loader	device-agnostic firmware uploader + systemd/udev glue
ps-camera-firmware	OV580 firmware blob, device profile and udev rules
tuner-pscamera	Tuner module to configure the camera(s)

Installation

Add the project repository — both the x86_64 and noarch lines are needed (the packages span both architectures):

apt-repo add rpm https://altlinux.space/api/packages/PS-Camera/alt/alt.repo x86_64 classic
apt-repo add rpm https://altlinux.space/api/packages/PS-Camera/alt/alt.repo noarch classic
apt-get update

Then install everything with a single package:

apt-get install ps-camera

How it works

Plug the camera into a USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) port. A udev rule detects it in bootloader mode and a systemd service uploads the firmware automatically — on boot, on hotplug and on every power cycle. The camera then re-enumerates as a standard UVC webcam and /dev/videoN appears. No manual scripts, no root.

Multiple and different cameras are supported; each is remembered with its own settings, tunable from the PS Camera page in Tuner.

Note: the OV580 upload is only reliable over USB 3.0. Through a USB 2.0 hub it may fail or hang.

License

This meta-package's license tag is GPLv3+ Proprietary — it bundles GPL-3.0 tooling and pulls in a proprietary firmware blob. The individual packages are licensed as follows:

Package	License
ps-camera-firmware-loader	GPL-3.0-or-later
tuner-pscamera	GPL-3.0-or-later
ps-camera-firmware	Proprietary
ps-camera (this meta-package)	Proprietary

About the proprietary firmware

The PS4/PS5 camera cannot operate without its OmniVision/Sony firmware, which is a closed, proprietary image and is not redistributed under a free license. It is shipped verbatim, without modification, by ps-camera-firmware only to make hardware you already own work on Linux. There is no free replacement: the sensor runs no other firmware. If you are a rights holder and object to redistribution, contact the repository maintainers.