Webcam Discovery Module for Viam

This module provides a viam discovery service for automatically detecting and configuring webcams for use with the Viam platform.

Overview

The webcam-discovery discovery service automatically:

• Scans for connected USB webcam devices
• Detects their capabilities and configuration
• Generates the appropriate Viam resource configurations

Attributes

No models in this module have any attributes. Just add the model to your machine, expand the test card or look at the discovery control card, and copy/paste the video path to the video_path attribute on a rdk:builtin:webcam or click the add component model.

The discovery service detects the highest available resolution of the first format it finds for a usb webcam connected to the machine running viam-server.

Example config

Add this module to your Viam robot's configuration:

{
    {
  "services": [
    {
      "name": "webcam-discovery",
      "api": "rdk:service:discovery", 
      "model": "viam:find-webcams:webcam-discovery",
      "attributes" : {}
    }
  ]
}
  "modules": [
    {
      "name": "find-webcams",
      "module_id": "viam:find-webcams",
      "type": "registry"
    }
  ]
}