# Home webcams **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [April 11, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/home-webcams/22497 "2012-04-11T18:34:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/home-webcams/22497/1 "2012-04-11T18:34:31Z")
Those of you that are using webcams at home, what type of setup are you using as far as camera/mic? Going to set one up for grandma so needs to be non-geek level ease of use. This would be for a desktop machine. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/home-webcams/22497/2 "2012-04-11T18:47:10Z")
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:34:31 GMT GofBorg [GofBorg@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org](mailto:GofBorg@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org) wrote: [color=blue] > Those of you that are using webcams at home, what type of setup are > you using as far as camera/mic? Going to set one up for grandma so > needs to be non-geek level ease of use. This would be for a desktop > machine. > > [/color] > Hi > Skype on tablets (ASUS Transformer TF-101) here, MiL has one as well, > thing is it’s nice and portable so it can be carried around to show > stuff etc. Maybe worth considering? – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default up 1 day 2:56, 4 users, load average: 0.13, 0.12, 0.14 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/home-webcams/22497/3 "2012-04-11T20:59:39Z")
We used two Microsoft webcams combined with VooDoo. The webcam is auto-focus, and has a built-in microphone that picks up the sound just fine. The auto-focus ones adjust for brightness, as well. I used it to call John every day for well over a year, and he had one on his end. We seldom had any problems with sound. When we did, it was the VooDoo network, not the device. We had less trouble, at that time, with the VooDoo network than we did with Skype. The one cautionary item for the Microsoft webcams is I think they all have some button that’s pretty easy to touch that is a shortcut to using Microsoft Live. We never used that, so I couldn’t tell you if it makes life easier or not. Whatever you get, make sure to tape it in place once you have it centered, so it can’t be moved from left to right or up and down, and the focus can’t be adjusted. Cats, bumping the desk, dusting can all easily move most webcams off target, or out of focus, where you end up only being able to see the top of Grandma’s head or the top of her desk or the ceiling or her face is out of focus or something. It’s not easy for the elderly to figure out how to aim it, or focus it, especially if they have shakey hands. If she has an LCD monitor, I’d also do an outline in tape on the desktop of where the monitor needs to stay in order for things to work right. This is a nice webcam, good images: [http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-LifeCam-Cinema-720p-Webcam/dp/B002MCZJ78](http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-LifeCam-Cinema-720p-Webcam/dp/B002MCZJ78) and this one is even better: [http://www.buy.com/prod/microsoft-lifecam-studio-full-1080p-hd-webcam/219368367.html](http://www.buy.com/prod/microsoft-lifecam-studio-full-1080p-hd-webcam/219368367.html) 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/home-webcams/22497/4 "2012-04-11T21:24:57Z")
P.S. Don’t get a TRENDnet. – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
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Thanks. What is voodoo? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/home-webcams/22497/6 "2012-04-11T23:41:06Z")
> Skype on tablets (ASUS Transformer TF-101) here, MiL has one as well, Unlikely to happen, but thanks for the option. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/home-webcams/22497/7 "2012-04-11T23:55:14Z")
Greg: LOL, I meant OooVoo! LOL! – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
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> LOL, I meant OooVoo! LOL! Ah…I was having visions of rubber chickens. ---
**Author:** ![kgroneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f1d935/32.png) [@kgroneman](https://forums.suse.com/u/kgroneman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/home-webcams/22497/9 "2012-04-13T18:11:11Z")
I just use Google chat with the built in camera/mic of my ASUS tablet or my wife’s ACER laptop which also has built in camera/mic. I already use Google everything anyway so using their built in chat is a natural. What’s cool is to use a Google+ hangout so you can have a group video chat with multiple people in multiple locations. A couple of groups I know of here at work use it for team meetings. – Kim - 4/13/2012 9:08:46 AM