Change /dev/video6 into /dev/video0

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Is it possible to change the video device for eg a webcam form /dev/video6 to /dev/video0? Can that be achieved by a command?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '13 at 19:59

You can always manually rename the device file but that change won't be permanent. To make it clean and permanent you will need to add a udev rule. You can find documentation, for example for Arch Linux, here. The udev rules should apply to all current Linux distributions.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '13 at 19:57

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Can you just symlink /dev/video6 to /dev/video0? That is, ln -s /dev/video6 /dev/video0. If so, since the link is in /dev you'd need to recreate the link whenever your system boots.

answered Sep 25 '13 at 19:57

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 25 '13 at 20:04

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Did you try:

mv /dev/video6 /dev/video0

answered Sep 25 '13 at 20:04

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Change /dev/video6 into /dev/video0

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