Any help for make a WebCam (USB) with ESP32-cam

[StefOlivier]

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.

[ESP_Sprite]

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.

[StefOlivier]

Thank you for your answer.

[nopnop2002]

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

[ESP_Sprite]

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)

[nopnop2002]

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