I am looking some like the popup camera of the Oppo F11 Pro that can be connected via USB-C. Here is an example:

I think something exactly this small would be impossible as most of its connections, board and circuits are inside the smartphone. So, maybe even a little bigger would be fine as long it would not be just impossibly massive like normal webcams are for my use case.

All I need it for is to scan Pokemon TCG Live codes from booster packs I open while not at home. So for video quality as long as a QR Code is readable its fine.

  • cynar@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 months ago

    AliExpress has quite a few variants. Just search “USB C mini camera”. They should all work fine with the underlying Linux OS, though picture quality won’t be the best.

    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyzOP
      5·
      11 months ago

      Unfortunately I am banned from Aliexpress. But I did find one with bad reviews on Wish.

      Another person on the Gaming on Linux Discord has found this one on Amazon for €57.

      A bit expensive but its pretty nice option!

  • Louise@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I don’t know if it works on SteamOS, but I use my deck in Windows very, very frequently due to using it as a main computer and I had a giant stack of years worth of code cards from the SUMO/XY era I never touched. I just used something called Camo to used my phone as a webcam and got through the stack pretty quickly.

    I imagine there might be something similar for SteamOS, especially since you can use a phone as a mouse and keyboard with KDE Connection.