https://github.com/billiegoose/camera-in-use-led

Turns the LED on a TinyPICO on when your Macbook webcam is in use
https://github.com/billiegoose/camera-in-use-led

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Turns the LED on a TinyPICO on when your Macbook webcam is in use

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/billiegoose/camera-in-use-led
• Owner: billiegoose
• Created: 2021-07-31T05:34:39.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-08-03T14:40:10.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-06T03:24:07.465Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 22.5 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Example usage

```sh

node osx/ble.js 'on,0,255,0,1' # Turn LED on, set color to bright green

node osx/ble.js 'off' # Turn LED off, set color to bright green

node osx/main.js # Monitors the webcam, turns LED red when in use, off when not in use

```

# Thanks

This is a hacked together mess from stack overflow and code examples from various sources:

- [MacOS - detect when camera is turned on/off](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60535678/macos-detect-when-camera-is-turned-on-off/65098443#65098443)

- [Micropython BLE examples](https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/f6fd46c4024c28c827ccffd13dbe02b9ea74cfb8/examples/bluetooth)

- [bleterm2 source code](https://github.com/josschne/bleterm2/blob/f5eedccae85ac773f501e8f1c935c74f68d07148/index.js)

# License

MIT