Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimiter_Popoff Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: webcam viewer? Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:39:24 +0200 Organization: TGI Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: dp@tgi-sci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:39:25 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5855bf1e5f4f6005411a642569513cd2"; logging-data="569344"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19G/X0lvwhZGXG42TWvYjnQ" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:wGXLH+xNI3GWAAhJIm9koY6vF6s= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2306 On 3/29/2024 22:00, john larkin wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:15:40 +0100, Robert Roland > wrote: > >> On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:33:54 -0700, john larkin wrote: >> >>> Can anyone recommend a good >>> webcam viewer? >>> >>> I just got a decent, affordable termal imager with close-up lens. The >>> user interface and instructions are of course obtuse. I managed to get >>> it to save snaps to its SD card, and can open them, but I'd like to >>> run it in webcam mode too. >> >> If it is a webcam, it will have a built-in web server with an IP >> address. >> >> I think you have a USB cam, not a web cam. >> >> I use AMCAP to view USB cameras, such as borescopes, microscopes etc. > > Yes, it is usb cam. It's a Uni-T Pro thermal imager. It can be set to > work as a live cam (which I can't get to work) or as a USB memory > device that saves images to an SD card. That mode barely works and is > very weird. > > Decent thermal imaging, nice snap-on close-up lens, ghastly embedded > software. > On windows 10 Yawcam works OK for me. Don't know about 11, you say it won't show up in the file explorer directory tree so it is uncharted territory for me.