Access USB camera connected to Android VIA OTG

[mdjavedakhtar]

Hello
i was trying to show video from a usb webcam connected via OTG to Android phone in MAUI but no success
any help will be appreciated

[MhAllan]

afaik, MAUI doesn't have camera view, what are you using?

[mdjavedakhtar]

I am aware of it.
I used camara.maui plugin. It shows the internal cameras of Android device but not the usb camera

[vovanb]

did you found a solution?

[bronteq]

@vovanb The repo does not seem updated, but you can open an issue there (https://github.com/hjam40/Camera.MAUI)
From Android 10 usb permission is needed, do you have it in the manifest?

[rokmeglic71]

@mdjavedakhtar just additional info which CoPilot AI led me to (LENS_FACING_EXTERNAL). Relevant topic on stackoverflow and stackoverflow second topic.

Related medium.com blog.

It would be interesting to test how many cameras Camera.MAUI/Camera.MAUI.ZXing - NumCamerasDetected.

Technical google group topic.
Android native code - not really related to MAUI.

This topic is about specific Cognex hardware, maybe just for additional info.