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Camois a tool that lets you use your smartphone as a webcam on your PC. This way, you can avoid buying or borrowing an extra piece of hardware in order to fully participate in video calls or conferences.

Camo has a simple interface that lets you adapt the image to your needs. Of course, in order to use this tool, you'll first need to install the corresponding app on your smartphone. After that, it only takes a few moments to sync your devices and start using your smartphone as a webcam in real time.

Once your devices are synced, you can adjust the image parameters, set up a type of zoom, or add custom watermarks. This tool also provides quality resolution that goes up to 1080 pixels. This way, you can take advantage of both high-quality image and low lag time.

Camo has everything you need to transform any Android or iPhone device into a webcam. Thanks to its high-quality image and numerous customization options, this tool makes showing your face in video calls a breeze.

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After working from home for a long time, I decided that it's time I improve my setup for doing video calls. Until now I've had my MacBook Pro standing next to my monitor, so I could use the built-in webcam. Besides taking up desk space that I would like to use for other things, it also resulted in bad video on calls since the webcam was pointing at the side of my face while I was looking directly into the monitor. It looked like I was not paying attention to the call. I needed a webcam that could be mounted to my monitor so it would point at my face.

I started researching webcams and asked Twitter for input. Several people suggested that try Camo by Reincubate and an old iPhone. I had an old iPhone 6 Plus that I had not used for years, so it was a perfect opportunity to put that to use, and if it worked out I wouldn't have to shell out $200 for a modern webcam.

To start using Camo as a webcam you'll need both Camo for iOS and the Mac app which can be downloaded from Reincubate's website. After downloading both apps, you must grant the iOS app access to the camera and microphone and plug the iPhone into the Mac. That's all there is to it. Now you'll be able to select Camo as a webcam in software like Google Meet and Zoom.

Camo doesn't support FaceTime. That's not a big deal for me since I'm doing far most of my FaceTime calls on my iPhone and iPad. Camo doesn't support Safari either. That's not a big deal for me either since I'm already doing all my Google Meet calls in Chrome. I find Google Meet works best in Chrome and I use the open-source app Finicky to automatically open Google Meet links in Chrome and open all other links in Safari.

The video quality of my iPhone 6 Plus is fine for my needs. It's at least as good as the camera in my MacBook Pro. Do note that I'm by no means an expert in photography and I don't have strong opinions on image quality.

After verifying that Camo worked on my iPhone 6 Plus and that I was happy with the video quality, I started searching for ways to mount the iPhone to my monitor so the camera would be pointing at my face. Luckily the Reincubate team has tested various mounts and have written about their findings. After reading their post I decided to try the FLOVEME Magnetic Phone Car Mount. Here's a photo of my setup.

The FLOVEME stand is attached to my monitor using the adhesive pad that came with the mount. The stand can be adjusted from side to side and up and down, making it easy to adjust the image so I'm always positioned correctly in the image.

I prioritize only having to plug a single cable into my MacBook when using it on my desk. Therefore my iPhone is connected to my monitor. Camo isn't happy to have the iPhone plugged in through a hub as it may lead to connection issues. It considers my monitor a hub and will show a warning when the phone is connected. However, I haven't experienced any connection issues so far. Update: I started seeing problems when the iPhone was plugged in through my monitor. I now have a cable hanging from the iPhone that I'll plug directly into my MacBook Pro.

Once the Camo app is launched on the iPhone it will keep the iPhone awake, even if the camera is not in use or the video feed has been paused from the Mac app. I like to manually lock the iPhone when I'm not using the webcam. This will prevent the Camo Mac app from having a connection to the iPhone app and use the camera. That's the equivalent of using one of those webcam covers.

I will only be using the iPhone 6 Plus as a webcam and I will have it permanently mounted to my monitor, so to make it easier to launch the Camo app on the iPhone after the phone have been locked, I put the iPhone into Single App Mode using Apple Configurator and disabled the passcode on the phone. When in Single App Mode (sometimes also referred to as "kiosk mode"), the iPhone will only be able to launch a single app and the app will automatically be launched when the phone is unlocked.

Single App Mode can be enabled using Apple Configurator by plugging your phone into the Mac and selecting Actions > Advanced > Start Single App Mode.... That will make the iPhone supervised meaning that its features can be restricted from elsewhere by installing profiles. After supervision has been enabled, you will be prompted to select the app to be used in Single App Mode.

After enabling Single App Mode you'll find that there's a new profile installed on the iPhone. You can see the profile in Apple Configurator and on the device. The profile tells the iPhone to be in Single App Mode. Deleting the profile through Apple Configurator will disable Single App Mode.

Now I can tap the Home button to launch the Camo app. When I'm done with a video call, I will press the side button to prevent Camo on the Mac from starting the webcam. Both buttons can easily be pressed without taking the phone off the mount.

Camo has plenty of settings to tweak the video. Like adjusting saturation, brightness, zooming in, and much more. I've only tweaked the video by increasing the saturation a bit. I like that the colors pop a bit more than it does at the default settings.

I'm happy with using Camo and will stick with it but I'm very intrigued by Detail, another app for using your iPhone as a webcam. Detail is in early access as of writing this. I haven't tried Detail since it requires iOS 13 and the iPhone 6 Plus only runs iOS 12 but I'll try it out once I get a newer spare iPhone.

TL;DR: I use Epoccam pro but I experience crashes sometimes. Epoccam free might give you undesired artifacts. Camo gave the best results and quality, but it's very expensive and I don't trust the company.

Like many of you, I've been working from home for a year now. After upgrading my microphone and my speakers setup, I got quite tired of my potato MacBook pro webcam (Quite insane if you ask me to pay so much money for a laptop without GPU not full HD webcam ...). I absolutely wanted to avoid yet another dangling USB cable. I also wanted to avoid buying more stuff if possible. So I looked at my options.

I first looked at repurposing my 10 year old reflex camera. But then I realized that I also owned the best current camera on the market : my iPhone 11! And since my phone is always on my desk any way, there wouldn't be more stuff coming and that's great news.

When looking online, the one result that comes forward ALL the time is Elgato's Epoccam. Quite a vote of confidence for me already : the company is already famous for the very successful streamdecks.

I installed their free version. For the price of 0$, you get (on paper) 720p resolution and their logo burnt in your stream. 720p is fine enough though, since that's the output quality I have in streamyard anyways.

The setup is very simple : Install the app, the driver on your computer and voila. BUT I got very disappointed. Even though I have a very good camera, the stream would come out completely pixelated. Also, the video was delayed by a second or so. Extremely annoying.

I think those alterations are added in post-processing by the free version. They are probably very visible because of the quality of my sensor. The disappointment was strong enough to make me look at other options.

The second option I looked at was Reincubate's Camo. The option is MUCH MORE pricy, at a whooping 6$/month (and no free version). However, I had a stream the same evening so I decided to give it a shot.

The first thing that really surprised me is that when you sign up they send you your password in plain text. This is bad! I just trusted you with my credit card details, why do you scare me like that? At this point, I knew already that I was gonna delete my account very soon.

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