uvcc

USB Video Class (UVC) device configurator

Overview

• Fine-tune camera controls on the fly, such as brightness, contrast, saturation, gain, white balance/color temperature, zoom.
• Export/import of settings makes it easy to reliably configure one or more cameras for various situations.
• Command line interface (CLI) with JSON input/output for automation and repeatability.

Compatible cameras

• Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcam (1133:2093)
• Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam (1133:2140)
• Microsoft LifeCam Studio Model 1425 (1118:1906, 1118:2065)
• Hopefully other UVC-compatible webcams and digital camcorders.

Do you have another UVC-compatible camera?

• Add it to the ./examples/.
• Is it not working?
  • Report an issue.
  • Help fix the source code!

Installation

Requires Node.js (node and npm commands). Published on npm as uvcc.

npm install --global uvcc

Or use npx to execute with npx uvcc.

On Linux, you may need to change device access permissions.

Features

• List available UVC cameras and camera controls.
• Get/set individual camera controls.
• Export/import full JSON control snapshots using stdout/stdin.
• Per-user/per-directory/custom configuration files to handle multiple cameras.

Short usage example

First start a program which shows a camera preview, such as Photo Booth on macOS or Cheese on Linux.

# Display commands and options.
uvcc --help

# Export current configuration. You can save it to a file, modify, and import later.
uvcc export

# Turn off automatic white balance to manually set the white balance.
uvcc set auto_white_balance_temperature 0

# Set the white balance temperature to 2000.
# NOTE: the white_balance_temperature range for Logitech C920 is 2000-6500.
uvcc set white_balance_temperature 2000

# Set the contrast to 192.
# NOTE: the contrast range for Logitech C920 is 0-255, default value 128.
uvcc set contrast 192

See also

• Further help and configuration in USAGE.md.
• The ./examples/ directory for some sample output.
• The CHANGELOG.md, in particular for breaking changes.
• Read DEVELOP.md to submit a patch or add your camera output to the examples.
• USB Video Class and list of USB video class devices on Wikipedia.

uvcc Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Joel Purra. Released under GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0). Your donations are appreciated!