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From: Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com>
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Subject: Re: webcam viewer?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:39:24 +0200
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On 3/29/2024 22:00, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:15:40 +0100, Robert Roland <fake@ddress.no>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:33:54 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> 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.