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I spend a lot of time on video calls every day, and wanted to take advantage of my iPhone camera. I had tried Epoccam and it was buggy, and broke between releas
by krrrh 6y ago
I spend a lot of time on video calls every day, and wanted to take advantage of my iPhone camera. I had tried Epoccam and it was buggy, and broke between releases of Zoom or didn’t work in Slack calls. Screwing around with OBS was time consuming and pinned my fans.
Reincubate Camo has been a pleasure to use over the last 3 months, and has never let me down. Having good image quality on video calls is on par with wearing a clean shirt or showering before in person meetings. You can get by without it, but you make a much better impression if you step your game up a little bit.
One big plus of Camo is that it will also patch software like Slack so that it works with virtual cameras at all.
- andredz 6y agoI can also recommend Camo; it has worked mostly all right.
- my_username_is_ 6y agoAre there any similar options for Android phones?
- netsharc 6y agoDroidCam works for my requirements: http://www.dev47apps.com http://www.dev47apps.com .. it installs a virtual webcam and microphone on Windows, and transmits the video and audio from the phone camera/microphone.
- phreack 6y agoClosest I can think of is Droidcam, which works great on Windows at least - on a wired connection.
- inickt 6y agoCamo for Android looks to be in beta too! https://twitter.com/reincubate/status/1349768570591457281?s=21 https://twitter.com/reincubate/status/1349768570591457281?s=...
- ivan_ah 6y agoI use https://iriun.com https://iriun.com on an old Android phone to get an "overhead projector" setup (to show hand written notes). (using USB connection not wifi; there is a bit of lag but works OK)
- gingerlime 6y agoYeah, Camo is probably the best out there at the moment. But... (there's always a but) 1. they had a bug with Mojave which made it disconnect, especially with Zoom calls with many people (I imagine CPU issue?) 2. There's no way to control / switch off the camera from the app. The phone is still on with the app open and camera is working 3. I've got a nice holder, and used a dedicated older phone, but still it was a hassle, because you want to use the back facing camera -- to avoid seeing yourself. And then starting the app is effectively "behind" the camera. It's awkward. 4. They charge a yearly subscription fee. I can understand why, but in the long run I'm not sure it works out in their customer's favour financially. I eventually gave up and got a Logitech Brio. So far I'm pretty happy.
- chrisweekly 6y agoHuh. OBS has worked well for me, incl on a 2012 mbp.
- ravenstine 6y agoOBS is awesome software, but it drains the battery on my 2015 Macbook like nothing else.
- chrisweekly 6y agoah; I'm always plugged in so wouldn't have noticed
- vosper 6y agoI had the same experience with Epoccam, it was far too unreliable to actually use for meetings. Thanks for the pointer to Camo. In the end I ponied up for Logitech C920, I think it's worth the money rather than fussing with a phone, apps, etc..