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4 ways to connect a cellphone camera to a laptop as a webcam

How to connect an HP camera to a laptop / PC, you can make a solution to replace a webcam. Guaranteed easy and no need to spend more!

How to connect an HP camera to a laptop or PC is the best solution for PC or laptop users who don't have one accessories webcams.

Not only PCs, this can also be experienced by laptop users whose webcam camera is damaged so they can't make video calls via laptops, right!

But, by relying on advanced Android applications, you can do video call on a PC or laptop using an HP camera as a replacement webcams. Practical, right?

Well, want to know how how to connect HP camera to laptop to replace the webcam? Check out the following steps, come on!

How to Connect an HP Camera to a Laptop/PC with DroidCam

How to connect an HP camera to a laptop for Zoom or other PC video call applications is actually very easy. Just choose which one you think is more practical.

For the first method, ApkVenue will use an application called DroidCam which you can use as a way to connect the iPhone camera to a laptop or PC.

For more details on how to use DroidCam on Android or iPhone, follow the steps from ApkVenue below, gang!

  1. Download app DroidCam via the link below:
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  1. Install the DroidCam app on your HP and PC/Laptop.
  1. Connect your cellphone and laptop to the same Wi-Fi network.
  1. Enter IP Address and connect the cellphone to the laptop using a USB cable.
  1. The HP camera can already be used as a laptop webcam.

How to Connect HP Camera to Laptop/PC with IP Webcam Application

The next way to make an HP camera into a PC or laptop webcam is with an application IP Webcam for smartphone and IP Camera Adapter for Windows PCs.

Ready? If that's the case, just follow the tutorial on how to use the IP Webcam that Jaka has explained below, gang!

  1. Download and install the application IP Webcam on smartphones and IP Camera Adapter on a laptop or PC.
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  1. You can set the IP Webcam settings in the menu Video Preferences, or just select Start Server at the very bottom.
  1. The IP Address will appear at the bottom of the smartphone screen.
  1. Open the IP in the HP browser application. Then, open Configure IP Camera Adapter that you have installed on your PC.

  2. Change Camera feed URL with IP address and port that you get from the app.

  1. The HP camera is already connected to the laptop or PC that you are using.

Very easy, right? Now you can open an online meeting application on a laptop or PC using an HP camera.

How to Connect an HP Camera to a Laptop Via USB Debugging

Next, ApkVenue will explain how to make an Android phone into a webcam with USB debugging. In this way, you can use your Android phone as a webcams without Wi-Fi.

Unfortunately, you can't try how to connect an HP camera to a laptop without an application because here you still need an application DroidCam.

It's just that the way to use it is different from the method in the first point. Because, with this application, you can choose a connection using WiFi or USB to your PC.

  1. Download and install the application DroidCam on HP.
  1. Activate mode USB Debugging on smartphones.

  2. Connect the smartphone to the computer via USB and let the computer install drivers required.

  3. Download and install Dev47apps client on your Windows PC.

  4. open DroidCam Client, and select USB icon. Then, click Start to activate the HP camera as a Webcam.

  1. The HP camera has been successfully connected to the laptop.

Oh yeah, if you're having trouble drivers not installed, you can download it here.

After successfully connecting your cellphone camera to a laptop with USB, you can use your cellphone camera as a webcam when accessing online meeting applications.

How to Use the HP Camera on a Laptop Via the Mobiola Application

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Next there is an application Mobiola WebCamera which according to information on the official website is specifically intended for iPhone and iPad users.

Mobiola WebCamera also supports several popular video calling applications such as Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, Google Hangout, and many others that you can use.

Well, for how to connect the iPhone camera to a laptop using the Mobiola WebCamera application, here are the steps:

  1. Download the Mobiola WebCamera application at the URL //www.mobiola.com/ and install it on your laptop and iPhone/iPad.

  2. Open the Mobiola application installed on the laptop, then set to Bluetooth mode.

  3. Do the same with the Mobiola application on your cellphone.

  4. Select the appropriate bluetooth name on your laptop/PC, then click Start to start with.

At this stage, you have successfully connected the iPhone camera to the laptop.

How, easy, right, how to connect an HP camera to a laptop or PC? You also don't need to spend more money to buy a separate webcam.

After succeeding with the methods that Jaka explained earlier, you can immediately make video calls on your laptop or PC, deh! Good luck!

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