ESP32 Forum

Hello Everybody,

I will try to write my best, but I'm French....

I want to do a webcam with ESP32-cam and I don't find any example to do that.

I make a wifi cam, video streaming, all the thing we find easely but not a WEBCAM (USB) like that https://www.cdiscount.com/pdt2/4/5/1/1/ ... ows-10.jpg

Thank you to have reading me.
Have a nice day.

The ESP32 does not have native USB; most devboards have an on-board USB-to-serial converter instead. As these are fixed-function devices, you can't re-program them to a webcam interface. You could theoretically connect a separate USB device chip to the ESP32 to make it function as a webcam, but as no one did that before, you would need to develop hardware and software support for that yourself.

Thank you for your answer.

USB camera (web camera) became available from ESP-IDF V5.

try this.

https://github.com/nopnop2002/esp-idf-video-streaming

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tr ... b/host/uvc

Be aware that 1. this is the other way around (connect an USB webcam to an ESP32S*) and 2. you still can't do this with the original ESP32; you need a chip with integrated USB OTG, which at this point in time are the ESP32S2 and -S3)

I misunderstood.

As ESP_Sprite states, it is currently not possible to create a USB camera with ESP32-cam.


Here is how to use the USB function of ESP32-Sx as a USB web camera (UVC device).


https://github.com/espressif/esp-iot-so ... usb_webcam