Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones shouldwork OK?

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 3/12/25 22:43, Charles Curley wrote:
> 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
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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