On 3/12/25 22:43, Charles Curley wrote:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 +0000
Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
I want to buy one of the cheap (£2.50 to £15) USB endoscope cameras so
I can poke around and see things under the engine of my little canal
boat.
A little bit of research suggests that most will probably work if they
claim to work with a 'PC' as that implies they use UVC to communicate
with a computer and there's UVC support in Debian (guvcview et al.)
Can anyone confirm that I have this right? Does anyone here actually
use one of these cameras with Debian? Actual recommendations of
specific suppliers/cameras would be very welcome, eBay, Amazon,
AliExpress, I'm not fussy! :-)
In 2022 I ordered an endoscope from Newegg which failed to work with
either Debian or Windows. I returned it without incident. It does not
seem to be available from Newegg at the moment. Sorry I can't give you
I have used several, now older v4l devices as machine vision on milling
machines but all are pretty ancient now & haven't been used recently.
ATM its is not working. May be unplugged. no. works with cheese, but not
w/linuxcnc.
a more detailed description of it.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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