# UVC & Mono Camera This example demonstrates how to use a mono camera on your OAK device to function as a webcam. The UVC feature allows you to use your OAK device as a regular webcam in applications like OpenCV's cv2.VideoCapture(), native camera apps, and more. ### How It Works: The [MonoCamera](https://docs.luxonis.com/software/depthai-components/nodes/mono_camera.md) node outputs image data in the GRAY8 format. However, the [UVC](https://docs.luxonis.com/software/depthai-components/nodes/uvc.md) node expects the data in NV12 format. To bridge this gap, an intermediary [ImageManip](https://docs.luxonis.com/software/depthai-components/nodes/image_manip.md) node is used to convert the GRAY8 output from the MonoCamera node to NV12 format, which is then passed to the UVC node for streaming. ### Similar samples: * [UVC & Color Camera](https://docs.luxonis.com/software/depthai/examples/uvc_rgb.md) * [UVC & Disparity](https://docs.luxonis.com/software/depthai/examples/uvc_disparity.md) ## Setup Please run the [install script](https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-python/blob/main/examples/install_requirements.py) to download all required dependencies. Please note that this script must be ran from git context, so you have to download the [depthai-python](https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-python) repository first and then run the script ```bash git clone https://github.com/luxonis/depthai-python.git cd depthai-python/examples python3 install_requirements.py ``` For additional information, please follow the [installation guide](https://docs.luxonis.com/software/depthai/manual-install.md). ## Code used for testing ```python import cv2 # Initialize the VideoCapture object to use the default camera (camera index 0 is webcam) cap = cv2.VideoCapture(1) # Check if the camera opened successfully if not cap.isOpened(): print("Error: Could not open camera.") exit() # Loop to continuously get frames from the camera while True: ret, frame = cap.read() if not ret: print("Error: Could not read frame.") break cv2.imshow('Video Feed', frame) if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'): break cap.release() cv2.destroyAllWindows() ``` ## Source code #### Python ```python #!/usr/bin/env python3 import time import depthai as dai pipeline = dai.Pipeline() # Define a source - left mono (grayscale) camera mono_left = pipeline.createMonoCamera() mono_left.setResolution(dai.MonoCameraProperties.SensorResolution.THE_720_P) mono_left.setBoardSocket(dai.CameraBoardSocket.CAM_B) # Create an UVC (USB Video Class) output node uvc = pipeline.createUVC() # Manip for frame type conversion manip = pipeline.createImageManip() manip.initialConfig.setResize(1280, 720) manip.initialConfig.setFrameType(dai.RawImgFrame.Type.NV12) manip.setMaxOutputFrameSize(int(1280*720*1.5)) # Linking manip.out.link(uvc.input) mono_left.out.link(manip.inputImage) # Note: if the pipeline is sent later to device (using startPipeline()), # it is important to pass the device config separately when creating the device config = dai.Device.Config() config.board.uvc = dai.BoardConfig.UVC(1280, 720) config.board.uvc.frameType = dai.ImgFrame.Type.NV12 # config.board.uvc.cameraName = "My Custom Cam" pipeline.setBoardConfig(config.board) # Standard UVC load with depthai with dai.Device(pipeline) as device: # Dot projector device.setIrLaserDotProjectorBrightness(765) print("\nDevice started, please keep this process running") print("and open an UVC viewer to check the camera stream.") print("\nTo close: Ctrl+C") # Doing nothing here, just keeping the host feeding the watchdog while True: try: time.sleep(0.1) except KeyboardInterrupt: break ``` ## 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