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amixra

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 125

DROIDCAM: Using phone camera into other applications

I wanted to use phone webcam for meet (google), found droidcam and installed and it's successfully working.
But i can use the video at a particular port on my browser. (say 4747, default) I launched meet on browser but it doesn't show any device for video which I can use to connect to my android camera.

Errors which might be helpful to you (but still it is working and connecting to my laptop)

 Error: Droidcam/v4l2loopback device not found (/dev/video[0-9]). 

I tried to find some solution and pipewire was supposed to be helping in this thing (if i didn't misinterpreted it.). But i was not able to understand how to exactly use it.

I guess that

v4l2loopback-dc-dkms

is not very compatible with latest linux kernel and that's why its happening. I am looking for any workaround so that it can be used on other applications.
Just to remind, I have asked on newbies forum! (so remain descriptive)

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Experiment at-least.

amixra

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 125

Re: DROIDCAM: Using phone camera into other applications

For some reason it wasn't working that day, may be because I have installed it that day only.
After few days, today, I was just checking `Helvum` (Gui for pipewire - shows the video devices), installed that day to check droidcam but didn't found there. But today I found it there (my phone remains connected most of the time for usb tethering purposes or just for easy clipboard sharing) and was able to connect in meet too using droidcam-cli.

So possibly a restart or shutdown and boot will connect it and make it available as device for other applications.

Last edited by amixra (2022-04-23 06:13:51)

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Experiment at-least.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: DROIDCAM: Using phone camera into other applications

Generally any kernel modules require a restart after installation.

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