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Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
lhalverson
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:46 PM (PST)

Full question: We have some technical problems. First of all we want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. While building a Windows CE image with Platform Builder, we are adding bluetooth drivers:

Bluetooth Protocol Stack with Transport Driver Support

|-->Bluetooth Stack with Integrated CSR Chipset Driver Bluetooth Stack

|-->with Integrated SDIO Driver Bluetooth Stack with Integrated UART

|-->Driver Bluetooth Stack with Integrated USB Driver Bluetooth Stack

|-->with Universal Loadable Driver

and as a webCam driver we use the WebCam driver given by you with mail on site http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=0eb87e35-13e4-4fa3-9fde-71e9136f47de.

We have tested MSI USB Bluetooth dungle (Microsoft Stack) and Philips USB VGA webcam (Plug and Play supported by Windows XP) devices with eBox II but we don't get a result. When we plug devices to eBox II, we get a message box with the title "Unidentified USB Device", message "Enter the name of the driver for this USB device" and a TextBox that asks the "Driver Name". That is exact enough, isn't it . Could you help us about using devices on eBox II?

Thanks for your interest, Regards,

Team Quattro

Answer to the webcam question: Hi, I will leave it to someone else to take the bluetooth question - The Windows CE WebCam driver is written to work with USB Video Class WebCam devices, the sample driver and application on the GotDotNet workspace has been built and tested against the Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 webcam device - the driver may also work with other USB Video Class devices with some modification.

 

Questions on how to modify the driver (or use the driver) with your camera should be sent to the GotDotNet workspace - http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2006/03/08/546465.aspx

 

- Mike Hall, Microsoft Senior Technical Product Mgr

 

Answer to the Bluetooth question: Don't add all transports from the catalog.

Use "Bluetooth Stack with Universal Loadable Driver" (SYSGEN_BTH).

If you're sure that you will only use USB dongles, then you can use the following catalog item: "Bluetooth Stack with Integrated USB Driver" (SYSGEN_BTH_USB_ONLY).

 

Fernando Gonzalez, Microsoft Windows CE

 


Comments:

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docjump
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Friday, December 22, 2006 2:38 PM (PST)

Regarding the answer to the webcam driver question:

If you are referring to the webcam.dll driver, we have tested the Logitech Quick Cam Pro 5000 and so far we have found that only ONE version or part number for that model of camera  works with WinCe. That is, P/N:861205. It seems that Logitech has made relatively small changes within the software of the camera periodically and those changes have rendered all but the above part number for this camera model unusable with WinCe (supposedly all work fine for WinXP/2000). If anyone has other part numbers for the Pro 5000 that work with WinCe, I would certainly like to hear about them, or for any other webcams for that matter.

If you are not talking about webcam.dll from Microsoft, please let me know the name of this “new“ driver.

 

Thank you.

 

 

jywilson
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Saturday, December 23, 2006 9:51 AM (PST)

They are making reference to the web cam driver available here: http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=0eb87e35-13e4-4fa3-9fde-71e9136f47de

Is this the one you are referring to in your post?

Jim

docjump
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:00 AM (PST)

Yes, it is.

 

jywilson
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:54 PM (PST)

I will ask around about this and report back here.  Have you tried posting this same question on the gotdotnet forum for this driver? 

In any case, thanks for bringing this up.  IMO, this driver is a pivotal piece of software for securing video from low cost USB cameras, and should be maintained as the hardware evolves.  Of course, as a community project, there is no reason why “we“ couldn't make the necessary changes to keep the driver updated with newer hardware.  This assumes that the hardware vendor is cooperative when releasing information on their latest models.

Jim

agenda
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:40 PM (PST)

We are trying to connect a webcam via bluetooth to a Windows CE device - a Datalogic PDA barcode scanner. Our aim is to have an application that will capture images and allow data to be associated with them through an application running in the PDA eg scan the barcode and then take a photo...

Is this the aim of the original question? If so we'll follow this with interest and pass back any successes or otherwise that we find here.

 

 

jywilson
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:47 AM (PST)

The original question pertained to which Logitech camera was supported.  Apparently only certain part numbers of the Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 are supported.  I have resposted this question to the gotdotnet.com forum where the driver is actually supported, but I have not yet received a response.

Jim

docjump
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:59 AM (PST)

I have found another Logitech camera that works in WinCe with webcam.dll. It is the Logitech Notebook Pro, Part Number: 861207. As a reminder, this is in addition to the QuickCam Pro 5000 we found to work earlier (p/n:861205).

Doc

 

jywilson
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Friday, January 05, 2007 11:34 AM (PST)

Thanks for this information Doc! 

Sounds like what is needed is a Hardware Compatibility List for this driver.  I will keep y'all posted on what I hear from the GotDotNet guys.

Jim

ed
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:23 AM (PST)

did anyone ever find a BlueTooth webcam?  i havent seen any of these before, but it's a great idea.

also, will this camera driver work on Windows Mobile 6?

Vembu
Q. We want to use a bluetooth and a webcam on Windows CE. How can we do this?
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:31 AM (PST)
e-con Systems seems to have a Windows CE driver for a camera module which they claim can be integrated to PXA270/PXA320/i.Mx series.

 
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