Bernardo Magri cdfe92a089 feat(hardware): hide dual-sensor webcam IR node (fixes dark image) ...

A built-in RGB+IR webcam (common on recent ThinkPads, e.g. the T14s AMD
Gen 4) exposes its IR face-unlock sensor as a second, identically-named
"Integrated Camera"; apps that pick it show a dark, 8-bit-greyscale
image. nomarchy.hardware.camera.hideIrSensor disables that node on the
V4L2 PipeWire path (WirePlumber monitor.v4l2.rules) so only the colour
camera is offered, matched by card name (overridable irMatch).

- libcamera is left untouched: an external camera you plug in is never
  affected, and surgical internal-only libcamera scoping isn't possible
  (its distinguishing props bind after the monitor rule runs).
- Only the PipeWire node is hidden; the kernel /dev/video* stays open,
  so Howdy face-unlock still reads the IR sensor directly.
- The installer's hardware-db.sh auto-detects a paired RGB+IR webcam
  from /sys/class/video4linux/*/name and bakes the toggle into
  system.nix; commented example added to the downstream template.

Validated live on a T14s: collapses the four enumerated "Integrated
Camera" entries to one colour source; the exact shipped regex disables
the IR node (confirmed in the WirePlumber log) and leaves libcamera
intact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-06-27 00:39:49 +01:00

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