Help needed - Motion Eye in a Container

[tera]

Dear Community,

I gave it a try and run Motion Eye (https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki) in a Container, see my notes below, however, 14 Local V4L2 Cameras show up (rather randomly) on Nexus 5 and none of them actually works:

Anyone would know how to, or if it would be possible, to access the Phone Cameras from a Container to be used by Motion Eye?

Many thanks in advance,
Peace,
Tera

Motion Eye in a Container installation notes:

#Create container:
#Use ADB or create inifinte loop:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
cp .ssh/id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start
ssh phablet@127.0.0.1
#end infinite loop

libertine-container-manager create -i motioneye -n motioneye -t chroot
#Exit or continue in ADB/infiniye loop

#Login into Container, you should be root:
libertine-container-manager exec -i motioneye -c "/bin/bash"

#Install required packages:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install motion ffmpeg v4l-utils python-pip python-dev curl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev python-imaging nano

#Upgrade pip:
pip install --upgrade pip

#Correct pip:
mv /usr/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip.orig
nano /usr/bin/pip
#pip content:
#!/usr/bin/python
# GENERATED BY DEBIAN
import sys
# Run the main entry point, similarly to how setuptools does it, but because
# we didn't install the actual entry point from setup.py, don't use the
# pkg_resources API.
from pip import __main__
if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(__main__._main())
#end pip content

#Install motioneye:
pip install motioneye

mkdir -p /etc/motioneye
cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.conf.sample /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf
mkdir -p /var/lib/motioneye
cp /usr/local/share/motioneye/extra/motioneye.systemd-unit-local /etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service

#Start manually:
#Service start gives:
#root@ubuntu-phablet:/# systemctl start motioneye.service
#Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/meyectl startserver -c /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf

#Open morph and access http://127.0.0.1:8765/
#Login with "admin", no password

[UniSuperBox]

The cameras on the device are not V4L devices. Instead, they are proxied through libhybris, libcompat, and qtubuntu-camera (finally landing in QtMultimedia) to be exposed in native Qt applications. I don't know if you'll be able to find a way to access these devices without building a native app.

[tera]

@UniSuperBox I was afraid to hear that... thanks