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[Solved] Is it possible to use the camera from my android phone instead of my laptop camera? (programming.dev)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/linux@programming.dev
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And that without calling in twice. Laptop cameras as normally very crap. They say "1080p", but most of the time they are 720p or less and have maybe 2 megapixels or less. Phones have way more and can be connected to the laptop via USB. There must be a way to use their camera over USB, right?

I know of USB over LAN, so surely this is possible.

Thanks to everybody. In the end I went with Scrcpy.

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[–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago

My phone is kinda recent and has Android 18, but it didn't work. Maybe future versions of Android will add it for all. That'd be cool!

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