Can we now access webcam?

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Dear All,

I have been trying for some time to achieve the ability to access not only the webcam of a laptop but also the ability to access the cameras on devices, having the new frontend NPM possibility has opened up a world of options for this to be achieved.

we now have the following NPM packages:

react
react-dom
react-webcam

having these should now enable us to have some ability to capture a camera stream and play it either within an iframe or other.

the example codes within the documents for each NPM package seem straight forwards and there is obviously a need to communicate with the iframe/html element. I am not a html code or java specialist but any guidance from others who also wish to utilise the camera for an array of purposes please do help or share examples.

Best wishes

Si

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There’s an NPM module for that, just call it,

Import {webCam} from NPM module…

To start: webCam.record();
To stopL webCam.exit();

then take the record src and save it to your database, then you can use the video element to play it.

To stream it live, you can use the HTML element a media player and grab the link to use it as the source

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Are you able to provide an example? and which NPM module it is that your are calling?