Often the webcams installed on your laptop are not the best as video resolution. For this, you could use your smartphone as a webcam on your PC while using Zoom or Skype.
Now we will explain how to set the camera of your Android smartphone as a webcam on your Windows computer.
How to use the Android camera as a webcam on a PC
To use your Android device's camera as a webcam, you will need to download both a PC program and an app to your mobile device. Both the computer and the Android device must be connected to the same WiFi network.
So let's start downloading and installing DroidCam on Windows and DroidCam from PlayStore.
Once done open DroidCam on Windows. Click the Wi-Fi button at the top. Here you will see the option to enter the device IP.
So open DroidCam on your Android device and copy the address to WiFi IP.
So type it in the DroidCam window on Windows. Also, check the Video and Audio items.
By default, the phone's rear camera is selected. To switch to the front camera, touch the three-dot menu in the phone app. Select Settings> Camera, then select Front from the list of options.
How to use your smartphone camera as a webcam on PC with Zoom
- Open Zoom on your computer and select General (the gear icon).
- Now select the Video item.
- From the drop-down menu next to the Camera item set DroidCam.
- Done now Zoom will take video input from your Android device's camera.
- Once downloaded and started Skype log in with your credentials and go to Settings by clicking on the three-dot menu on the right.
- Select Audio and Video.
- Click on the small drop-down menu in the upper right corner and select DroidCam.
- Done now Skype uses the camera on your Android device to make video calls.
Conclusions
The camera on your smartphone will work on any video call program, just search in the settings of the program or the video conference service and set Droidcam on the video input.
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