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Hi, I was able to successfully use the Mevo as a Zoom Webcam by following the steps below. It is worth noting that the webcam feature is still Beta in the Mevo firmware I am using (2.3.14B) so things may change in future, hopefully for the better. I was using a PC running Windows 10 for Zoom and an Android cellphone for the Mevo control app.
1. Switch on the Mevo camera and open the Mevo app on the device (tablet or mobile phone) that you want to use to control the camera.
2. Connect the Mevo camera to your PC using the USB cable that came with the camera. Other USB cables may work too, but just to eliminate that as a potential issue lets use the original one.
3. Using the Mevo app go to the settings menu (click on the 3 dots on the lower right side of the screen) and then click on the cog symbol in the lower right. Scroll down the menu options until you get to ‘Wired Webcam Mode (Beta)’ as shown below:
4. Click on ‘Wired Webcam Mode’ and then on the next screen click on the switch on the right to enable this mode, as shown in the picture below:
5. When you return to the main screen of the Mevo app the recording button in the lower left should say WEB CAM as shown below:
6. In Webcam mode you can still use the controlling tablet / phone to pan and zoom the camera, and make camera adjustments such as lighting. It does appear that in Webcam mode you are not able to record or stream from the camera, and the microphone also appears to be muted.
7. On the PC there should have been some activity. If this is the first time that the camera was connected then you should see a couple of notifications that the camera PC drivers are being installed. This takes a minute or so. You can check that the PC has successfully recognized the camera and installed the drivers by opening Windows Device Manager (Right click on the Windows 10 Start logo in the lower left of the screen, then select Device Manager from the popup menu). If the camera has been recognized it should appear in Device Manager under Cameras:
8. Open you Zoom application on the PC and enter or start a meeting. On the lower left edge of the Zoom window click on the up arrow on the right of the camera icon, and select the Mevo camera as the video source by clicking on it so that a check mark appears next to it:
9. If the zoom camera is disabled (has a red diagonal line through it) you can enable it by clicking on the camera icon.
10. You can adjust how zoom uses the webcam picture, such as mirroring the image, by clicking on the ‘Video Settings…’ line of the Camera menu, and then make the settings change as shown below:
Notes:
- The current Mevo firmware does not appear to provide sound so you will need to choose a different microphone for Zoom.
- Pan and Tilt and camera settings for the Mevo camera in Webcam mode are still controlled from the tablet/mobile phone rather than from Zoom.
Please try these steps and let me know at what point your results diverge.
Hi Kari,
No problem. There are still a couple of solutions for larger videos:
1) If your church has a YouTube page you can upload the video there, and then you can use the YouTube block to embed a link to the video on you Congregation page.
2) Send Mary or me an email (see links at the bottom of the home page) and we can share a drop box folder where you can upload the video. We may end up uploading the video to our YouTube page and embedding a YouTube link from there on your congregation page.Thanks,
NickHi Kari,
If you are the designated author for a Participants Congregations page (which you are) you can modify your Congregation page and upload pictures or videos.
To upload videos, pictures, or otherwise add to your Participating Congregations page:
1) go to the https://uto.stjamestempe.org website
2) log in to the site by clicking on the ‘Login’ menu item in the upper right side of the page
3) go to your Participating Congregations page
4) in the banner at the top of the page it says ‘Edit Post’. Click on this.
5) We use WordPress so you can edit the page using the WordPress editor.To add information to the page move to where you want to add the material and then press the ‘+’ symbol on the right of the page, then chose the block for the type of information. For the most common information types:
- To add text choose the ‘Paragraph’ block, then enter the test.
- To add pictures you can choose the ‘Advanced Gallery’, ‘Gallery’ or ‘Image’ block. Then use the ‘Upload’ button to upload the image(s) to the website.
- To add a video you can either embed a YouTube video using the YouTube block, or add picture(s) using the Advanced Gallery, Gallery or Image blocks. The YouTube block requires that the video already be up on on YouTube. The image blocks have an Upload button that allows you to upload the picture(s) to our website
You can find more information if you look up WordPress editing.
Hope that helps,
Nick
