OT: plug and pray webcam on windows xp

Moments ago I posted this only to SED, then remembered the chances
someone could help here are perhaps higher (unless the groups overlapp
completely nowadays....). Anyway, separate post but same, here it goes:

A somewhat moronic question but well, perhaps someone has been there
and done it.
My old (also external) webcam which I use in order to look at my lab
when I am not there (USB connected to an old xp laptop) began to lose
its presence at times (gets back on app restart but well, I need it to
work when I am not there).
So I got a new one,
https://natec-zone.com/product/lori .

Wasted me a whole day today and no chance for xp to recognize it.
On the windows 10 laptop it just works; on the xp it stays unrecognized.
I tried all the obvious, installed various drivers etc., nothing.
Found a much longer version of upnphosts.dll (something like 300k,
mine was 182 or so), nothing.
I guess I'll give up on it and get another but... it does claim to work
with XP. Haven't tried to talk to the makers, I already wasted enough
time on that as it is.
So if by some chance someone knows something I can try - some particular
driver etc. - please help. I am far from a windows freak, I can manage
little more than what is obvious to me.
The windows xp is 32 bit as far as I can tell, the laptop is acer
extensa 5630Z (has no inbuilt camera, it is > 10 years old and its
main - if not sole - function is to operate the camera.....).
I know there are many alternative ways to do it, but it would be
nice if this thing would eventually work.

On 6/9/2022 8:09 PM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
> Moments ago I posted this only to SED, then remembered the chances
> someone could help here are perhaps higher (unless the groups overlapp
> completely nowadays....). Anyway, separate post but same, here it goes:
> 
> A somewhat moronic question but well, perhaps someone has been there
> and done it.
> My old (also external) webcam which I use in order to look at my lab
> when I am not there (USB connected to an old xp laptop) began to lose
> its presence at times (gets back on app restart but well, I need it to
> work when I am not there).
> So I got a new one,
> https://natec-zone.com/product/lori .
> 
> Wasted me a whole day today and no chance for xp to recognize it.
> On the windows 10 laptop it just works; on the xp it stays unrecognized.
> I tried all the obvious, installed various drivers etc., nothing.
> Found a much longer version of upnphosts.dll (something like 300k,
> mine was 182 or so), nothing.
> I guess I'll give up on it and get another but... it does claim to work
> with XP. Haven't tried to talk to the makers, I already wasted enough
> time on that as it is.
> So if by some chance someone knows something I can try - some particular
> driver etc. - please help. I am far from a windows freak, I can manage
> little more than what is obvious to me.
> The windows xp is 32 bit as far as I can tell, the laptop is acer
> extensa 5630Z (has no inbuilt camera, it is > 10 years old and its
> main - if not sole - function is to operate the camera.....).
> I know there are many alternative ways to do it, but it would be
> nice if this thing would eventually work.

Hi Dimiter - I'm cleaning out my basement and find a set of unused
Logitech Orbit USB cameras for XP. I was about to toss them into
electronics recycling - yours if you want them!
Thankfully I have only one Windows XP VM remaining which I must use to 
support an old product - and no camera needs!
See ya, Dave

On 6/22/2022 18:16, Dave Nadler wrote:
> On 6/9/2022 8:09 PM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
>> Moments ago I posted this only to SED, then remembered the chances
>> someone could help here are perhaps higher (unless the groups overlapp
>> completely nowadays....). Anyway, separate post but same, here it goes:
>>
>> A somewhat moronic question but well, perhaps someone has been there
>> and done it.
>> My old (also external) webcam which I use in order to look at my lab
>> when I am not there (USB connected to an old xp laptop) began to lose
>> its presence at times (gets back on app restart but well, I need it to
>> work when I am not there).
>> So I got a new one,
>> https://natec-zone.com/product/lori .
>>
>> Wasted me a whole day today and no chance for xp to recognize it.
>> On the windows 10 laptop it just works; on the xp it stays unrecognized.
>> I tried all the obvious, installed various drivers etc., nothing.
>> Found a much longer version of upnphosts.dll (something like 300k,
>> mine was 182 or so), nothing.
>> I guess I'll give up on it and get another but... it does claim to work
>> with XP. Haven't tried to talk to the makers, I already wasted enough
>> time on that as it is.
>> So if by some chance someone knows something I can try - some particular
>> driver etc. - please help. I am far from a windows freak, I can manage
>> little more than what is obvious to me.
>> The windows xp is 32 bit as far as I can tell, the laptop is acer
>> extensa 5630Z (has no inbuilt camera, it is > 10 years old and its
>> main - if not sole - function is to operate the camera.....).
>> I know there are many alternative ways to do it, but it would be
>> nice if this thing would eventually work.
> 
> Hi Dimiter - I'm cleaning out my basement and find a set of unused
> Logitech Orbit USB cameras for XP. I was about to toss them into
> electronics recycling - yours if you want them!
> Thankfully I have only one Windows XP VM remaining which I must use to 
> support an old product - and no camera needs!
> See ya, Dave

Thanks David, really appreciated, but there is no need.
I wanted to replace the misbehaving camera for nostalgic reasons
(nostalgia related to the person because of whom I started using
it some 7 years ago in that mode). Now this camera behaves again,
has behaved for over a week (you tell me how come, was it the
camera or the xp laptop which has practically no other function).
And I connected the newly bought one to the 10 laptop, its view
duplicates - at higher quality - the view of the old one...
All this is just to keep me calm when out, we used to
not leave the house unattended unless really unavoidable (like
going to a hospital or the like). I could get some IP cameras but
these won't change much if anything, what am I going to do in case
I see what I don't want to see any different what I would do now.

Dimiter

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