bagofarms / webcam-viewer

A simple Electron app that lets you view what your webcam or media capture device sees.

Webcam Viewer

This is a simple application that lets you view the feed from any webcam, virtual webcam, or video capture device that presents as a webcam on your system. You could use this for:

• Testing your webcam before a meeting
• Checking your hair
• Controlling a Raspberry Pi connected through a cheap HDMI capture device

Running From Source

I'm still working on packaging executables for this, so if you would like to run it, please follow these instructions.

1. Install node
2. Install yarn by running npm install --global yarn
3. Clone the repository
4. Navigate to the directory in your terminal, and run yarn install.
5. run yarn run start

Building on Windows or MacOS

Run yarn run make

Building on Linux x64

1. Install rpm
   • On Ubuntu, run sudo apt install rpm
   • on Arch Linux, run sudo pacman -S rpm-tools
2. Run yarn run make

Building on Raspberry Pi

Building for the Pi is a little weird, but here's what I've been doing so far:

1. Install
   • ruby
   • ruby-dev
   • fpm
   • electron-builder
2. Run USE_SYSTEM_FPM=true yarn run electron-builder build --linux deb rpm --arm64 --armv7l

The above does not successfully build an rpm, but you may be able to run sudo apt install rpm, then build again.