Hi all. Hope you can help. I am a blind person and am looking for a application or even if the stock camera of the Samsung S8 that I use can connect to a usb external camera. The applications that is available allow for picture taking and video recording, but what the problem is when I need to open for instance Be My Eyes it automatically start using my phone camera and not the usb camera. Why I need is to mount a camera on my glasses and then be able to use OCR applications that use the camera to read text or make a video call in whatsapp to a friend or family member or the Be My Eyes application that I can be assisted with the sighted person to see what is on the live stream of the camera and navigate me or tell me what products I am looking at. Application like cameraFi do not get picked up by android to make default camera application in default app managers and the phone auto go to rear camera of phone. I hope someone can point me in the correct direction or that there is a camera app out there that someone know about that can do this. For in the apk development on camera's it is available but I can not write my own program as yet to do this. Thank you and I hope I am posting in the correct area. Appoligies if not.
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This question has been asked but the ONLY reason i am asking it is because one of them is for car accident documentation and the other had no answer and was asked for an unknown reason. (i am a new user so i am unable to link to these two threads.):crying:
Well I know their are "Secret Video Recording' apps out their although the main reason for these seam to be use surreptitiously and my reason is something for something I don't want to hide and actually be able to check on it every once and a while.
Here is what i am talking about Being that i have the dock and the t300 has a rear facing camera i wish to utilize them both at the same time. Here is the scenario: I am in class attending a lecture and although i am a fast typist I cant capture things like slides or pictures in general for my notes. I wish to be able to Video Record the lecture while taking notes at the same time. Alas i have been unable to find software to do this. I have been told before that i should use a "secret" recorder and set up the shot first with my normal camera app. Although this does not let me 1.) go to the video intermittently and make sure what i want is still in frame, people move and sometimes the tablet does while i am taking notes all it takes is someone bumping me from the side or for someone in front of me to move and the rest of the video might as well be an audio recording . and 2.) stop recording easily when its not needed (breaks pauses during lectures and the random jokes or anecdotes some teachers like to tell) not having this ability i have to edit the video or deal with the extra content.
In all I am pretty sure you get my idea I wish i could create a mod to the camera app that lets me put the recording in the background and takes notes I am no DEV but to me it sounds easy although if it was i bet it would be available already.
THE most Possible BEST thing to add to this would also be able to have the option to monitor the recording in a small Samsung like super window but with a live feed not just playback so without having to change the entire screen i can quickly check its progress in a small window.
Sorry for the long post I am just wondering if this could be even possible I would pay for an app like this as currently the only way i can get video is by using two devices although the higher position of the tablet camera is ideal.
Thank you for reading this and I hope this sparks someones interest and possibly with the amount of people highly intelligent when it comes to these matters I know if it is possible someone or someones here can create it. Again that is if it is possible, personally i don't see why not but if i was that smart i wouldn't need to ask. I would just create the app.
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I'm wonder if is possible to introduce in the cam app, the real autofocus and movement autofocus.
What I am talking about is: If we see the cam app of Galaxy S5, the focus is always running without requiring a click.
If I move the camera, the focus run automatically, without interference from the user as well.
It really is a feature that is missing in the application. Sure would be useful for users, because it would be possible to take pictures much faster.
1.2Q: Anyone know how to or can suggest this feature to the Cyanogen for a future update?
Hey all, long time forum user first post.
I know for years people have been using Android's camera as a IP or security camera, but I am basically looking to do the opposite. I was attempting to find a way to use a IP camera through use of a Driver / App for Android that allows the IP camera's steam to be configured to be seen as the Front Camera on the Android device, that then it turn could be accessed by any Android App with normal camera support. Is their already a app or method to do this? Is it even possible?
I was really just looking for some insight or suggestions from the pros, any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks in advance guys.
AJKTEK said:
Hey all, long time forum user first post.
I know for years people have been using Android's camera as a IP or security camera, but I am basically looking to do the opposite. I was attempting to find a way to use a IP camera through use of a Driver / App for Android that allows the IP camera's steam to be configured to be seen as the Front Camera on the Android device, that then it turn could be accessed by any Android App with normal camera support. Is their already a app or method to do this? Is it even possible?
I was really just looking for some insight or suggestions from the pros, any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks in advance guys.
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Hello try those
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rcreations.ipcamviewer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zexu.ipcamera
Thanks for the reply, but it is not what I meant. Possibly I was not clear enough on my OP or possibly you misunderstood, but I do not want to view or control a IP camera on the android device. I have been doing that for years as well.
I want android to use the IP camera's stream as if it were the android internal camera. I sort of "virtual camera driver" as it would be called on windows. It would allow a normal android app, such as the built in camera app, or anything like snapchat, or a video recorder to pull the IP camera stream as it would see it as the Android's internal camera through the virtual camera driver.
AJKTEK said:
Thanks for the reply, but it is not what I meant. Possibly I was not clear enough on my OP or possibly you misunderstood, but I do not want to view or control a IP camera on the android device. I have been doing that for years as well.
I want android to use the IP camera's stream as if it were the android internal camera. I sort of "virtual camera driver" as it would be called on windows. It would allow a normal android app, such as the built in camera app, or anything like snapchat, or a video recorder to pull the IP camera stream as it would see it as the Android's internal camera through the virtual camera driver.
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Sorry I search a lot but I can't find anything for your problem. You can do the android to work for pc as camera for skype and stuff but for that thing you want I don't know dude
I use the app "Automate" to do various chores on my phone, such as turning off my bluetooth radio when I leave home. I highly recommend it to anyone who has interest. Having bought the PH-1, I decided to play with some time-lapse videography. This is fairly easy to do in Automate, as it has the functionality to take pictures (and wait between) built-in. I can use either the primary camera or the selfie camera, and then stitch the pictures together in post to make the video.
My problem is the 360 camera. I so want to experiment with the 360 camera, but I am having some issues.
1) First, the camera seems to turn off when the Essential Camera App is not active. Does anyone know how to override this?
2) When I am configuring Automate. It does not sense the 360 camera. I am not sure how the app detects cameras, or if it does at all. After all, when was the last time you had a phone with something other than two cameras? It may be easiest as a programmer to just assume, and ignore the corner cases. But I am going to operate on the assumption it is possible to get this to work. In the app, if you set the "Camera" variable to 1, you get the primary camera, and if you set it to 2, you get the selfie. The obvious thing is to try 3 for the 360 camera, but this does not work. Neither does trying 0. Is there anyone who is both an owner of a PH-1 and a competent user of Automate that might have any ideas? Personally, I suspect if I can achieve step one above, this problem will come into greater focus. It will either be detected, or I will have enough information to go to the Automate community with requests. Right now though I suspect it is easier to find someone here with Automate experience than going there looking for someone with the PH-1.
Thanks for helping out!
Murtagh
I've never used automate, but I assume the "take picture" function you are using is independent.
Try setting automate to open up the essential cam, and then "take picture". The camera app has to be coded to read the external usb camera.
I use a app called Torque with an addon called Track Recoder as a dash cam while driving. It's a great app and it ties into a bluetooth OBDII adapter so i get real time info on my videos. Right now I can select the rear camera or front camera but would like to use both. The option in the app to use the front and rear camera is there but from what I have read it's part of the OS only allowing me to use one camera at a time and I can't get around it.
Is there a custom rom or will rooting the phone allow me this option? I have rooted plenty of phones in the past and have no problem doing it to my S8 Plus if that is what needed.
Anyone have any insight? Would really like to be able to record my drive using both cameras.
Thanks!
Do you have access to the Samsung app store ?
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If you do. Search for something called Dual camera. It's an add on by Samsung free to download. Download and enjoy man
I have installed that hoping it would work but no luck. It will work if using the Samsung app but anything outside of that it won't. I attached a couple screen shots from inside the app I am trying to use this with. From what the developer said it was specific to the Samsung S8 and the OS, which is why i was hoping maybe a root and custom rom might solve the problem for me.
I selected the forward facing camera for camera 2 and it just says it's offline.
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Here is the note from the developer of the app.
I have a s8+ which does support dual camera but not through tracking recorder. there is a app from Samsung called dual camera so yes, dual camera works. just sucks track recording wont allow it. i need it because i need to record what passengers do in my vehicle.
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Hi!
That uses samsings proprietary APIs (which basically use their own chip to do picture in picture on the main camera picture – so the app only sees one camera)
Unfortunately Samsung haven’t made this API public, so it’s not possible – if someone managed to reverse engineer it then that’s great, though it’s not public and not a ‘standard’
Sony did it properly (as did LG) and as a result, using the Android standard camera API it can correctly see 2 cameras, however samsungs can’t as they don’t become visible as 2 seperate cameras, but instead ‘merge’ the picture into the ‘first’ camera and I currently have no way to access that proprietary(read: a custom way the manufacturer decided to do it instead of the android way) to get it to work
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