Comment on Looking for extremely small camera/webcam for Steam Deck
Louise@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t know if it works on SteamOS, but I use my deck in Windows very, very frequently due to using it as a main computer and I had a giant stack of years worth of code cards from the SUMO/XY era I never touched. I just used something called Camo to used my phone as a webcam.
I imagine there might be something similar for SteamOS, especially since you can use a phone as a mouse and keyboard with KDE Connection.
jaykstah@waveform.social 1 year ago
Droidcam is a pretty decent option for using Android phones as a webcam, that’s what I’ve used on Linux to accomplish similar things. Just run the droidcam server on the Steam Deck and either connect to it from the phone via local IP address or over USB.
JTheDoc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Literally only found this out the other day, great comment. I needed head tracking for beamng to complete my setup and found my phone’s camera obviously outperformed my webcam. No latency over usb! Anyone wanting to know an easy way to head track with a webcam or phone would use droidcam with Open track. :)
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
That’s actually something I have not thought about at all, despite having used DroidCam a lot in the past.