Use digital microscope as webcam?

[profoundDmd]

Hi all,

I am developing a website and the client asked if he could connect his digital microscope (https://www.electronicaembajadores....amcolms2-digital-microscope-3-megapixels-hdmi) and then show what the microscope is seeing on his website. I have no experience whatsoever with this and I couldn't give him a decent answer. Basically, if the pc could recognise the microscope as a 'webcam' then surely this would work, right? So i'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this? Or knows that this will work.
The specs say "input interface: USB 2.0".
So technically, it should work? Or am I missing something?

Thnx in advance!

 

[COLGeek]

What you are describing is technically possible. How do you intend to "connect" the digitial microscope to the server hosting the website? Does your client intend to leave that device up and running 24/7/365 for access?

There are several techniques depending on how you want to implement:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=insert+webcam+image+on+website

 

[profoundDmd]

Hey COLGeek, that's not really what I mean (should have explained it better).

It should be the client that connects his/her microscope to his/her pc and he/she should then see what the microscope is 'filming' (for example, a coin) on the website. So everything that should be connected is connected client-side, not server-side. Basically like you connect a webcam and then see what the webcam is filming on a small website you're developing yourself. This is easily done with the html5 video-tag, and I was just wondering if anybody knows if you, then, could 'use' the digital microscope as a 'webcam' to do the same.
I hope i'm not too confusing

More specifically; the website is only going to be used by 1 client anyway and I have full control over the client-pc as well.

 

[Alabalcho]

The way to see whether this microscope acts like a web camera is to try it over eg Skype. Then, it is up to you to decide how to feed the website server with live stream from that camera.

 

[hang-the-9]

Hey COLGeek, that's not really what I mean (should have explained it better).

It should be the client that connects his/her microscope to his/her pc and he/she should then see what the microscope is 'filming' (for example, a coin) on the website. So everything that should be connected is connected client-side, not server-side. Basically like you connect a webcam and then see what the webcam is filming on a small website you're developing yourself. This is easily done with the html5 video-tag, and I was just wondering if anybody knows if you, then, could 'use' the digital microscope as a 'webcam' to do the same.
I hope i'm not too confusing

More specifically; the website is only going to be used by 1 client anyway and I have full control over the client-pc as well.

Look up "webcam test" on the web, you will find web sites that do this, you can have a web site show you what the camera on the computer is seeing.

 

[profoundDmd]

Thank you all for replying.

I got it to work using html5's Video-tag and streaming the 'video' through WebRTC (navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices() to scroll through all the connected devices and picking out the right device).