external UVC camera for iOS connection (without MFI certification)

 

Can you connect a USB webcam to an iPad / iPhone? 

 YES!!! 

Before we discuss, you can see the diagram 

There are many ideas that can let external usb camera connect to iOS

The best way is peertalk & Ethernet (wire ethernet or wireless ethernet)

you do not make the MFI certification when you use two ideas. 

External video device communicate with iOS app over USB lightning ( peertalk of USBmuxd)

How to let external device communicate with iOS?

eg:  WIFI router, wifi ip camera, lightning flash card and etc.



There are 4 major format that can communicate with iOS

Information (云峰小罗): https://www.jianshu.com/p/08da95add4da

iOS透過USB lightning外接裝置(串流視訊),不用過MFI認證(usbmuxd方式下的peertalk)

目前iPad iPhone等iOS要連接外面的裝置

如 wifi 路由器, wifi ip camera, iOS專用隨身碟, 傳輸線等等

大概連線方式就是如下圖所示

大概分成幾大類

資料來源(云峰小罗): https://www.jianshu.com/p/08da95add4da