Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:26:32 +0000
Chris Green <cl@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
a more detailed description of it.
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