Use the camera and mic on the phone as a webcam, and gps as location provider
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It might be fun, or even useful, to be able to use the phone's camera and/or mic as a wirelessly connected (wifi, Bluetooth, or cellular data) webcam.

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albertvaka moved this task from Ideas to New features on the KDE Connect board.Nov 30 2016, 1:42 PM
albertvaka renamed this task from Use the camera and mic on the phone as a webcam to Use the camera and mic on the phone as a webcam, and gps as location provider.Nov 30 2016, 1:46 PM
albertvaka moved this task from New features to Ideas on the KDE Connect board.

I will start working on the camera support.

kjohns added a subscriber: kjohns.Apr 14 2020, 5:13 AM

there is an app on the android play store ip webcam and i have used this and it works. All you have to do is open the url of the phone with the port in either the browser or in the supported driver which adds the phone as a camera to be used in any application.
How i see it, we can open the "share camera on device" button and clicking it, the camera would show up allowing us to change cameras and flash and other things. On the other side, like on desktop, the driver would via kde connect recognise the camera saying "hey. you now have a new camera up, if you havent installed the driver, do it here". then we would open say skype and select the camera source to kde connect-phone1 and thats it.

ratajsk added a subscriber: ratajsk.Jun 5 2022, 7:04 AM
akhil added a subscriber: akhil.EditedSep 11 2022, 6:33 PM

hello, i am a recent user of kde connect. And, it's awesome and smooth experience.
i am a also who have interest in implementing this feature.
can you all tell me where i can start or which direction i should look to implement it in kde connect ?

apol added a subscriber: apol.Sep 11 2022, 10:45 PM

First make sure to start working on one of the 3 listed. I guess it depends on which you prefer we can start looking into.

In T4661#280911, @apol wrote:

First make sure to start working on one of the 3 listed. I guess it depends on which you prefer we can start looking into.

i am assuming @apol you are asking from three WiFi ,Bluetooth and cellular data. i think WiFi will be right choice to work with first.
also if you are asking for camera or mic, first i would like work with camera part.

apol added a comment.Sep 12 2022, 2:07 PM

No. I meant the camera, microphone and gps.

So like Nico said above, you'll need to look into creating a v4l2 device on the linux side, maybe through loopback.

akhil added a comment.Sep 14 2022, 4:35 PM


i installed it but not getting what should i do with it. what should i look for or some rough steps after this?