clone uvc-gadget failed

[tippy-somers]

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Am pretty new to this but would love to get this webcam working. I followed your read me file and got the following message. Webcam will not work Any help would be much appreciated.

TASK [Clone uvc-gadget to the Pi.] ********************************************* fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "/usr/bin/git clone --o rigin origin https://github.com/geerlingguy/uvc-gadget.git /home/pi/uvc-gadget", "msg": "fatal: could not create leading directories of '/home/pi/uvc-gadget': P ermission denied", "rc": 128, "stderr": "fatal: could not create leading directo ries of '/home/pi/uvc-gadget': Permission denied\n", "stderr_lines": ["fatal: co uld not create leading directories of '/home/pi/uvc-gadget': Permission denied"] , "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

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[DarylWM]

This error is due to the Ansible tasks assuming your username is pi. Either switch to that username or edit the piwebcam.yml and uvc-gadget.yml tasks from /home/pi/ to /home/<username>/. After that the tasks should work fine.