This workaround works without having Parallels installed. I ended up finding a fix for a similar problem for people that have Parallels installed. X Webcam is not supported on macOS 11.x.There are some known issues at least with the late 13'' model, and this quirk might (or not) be due to that. Image import works perfectly on the USB 3.1 Bus.įinal edit: I've found the answer.

Unfortunately, using this Bus still doesn't encourage X Webcam to behave properly. If I connect to the USB 3.1 Bus (Thunderbolt) the camera is revealed in System Report as 'USB PTP Camera'. However, it is detected by Lightroom, Image Capture etc and I am able to download / import images. When connected to the USB 3.0 Bus, the camera does not show up in System Report (see above). Note that the camera is clearly not being detected at USB levelĮdit 2: There are two further observations that may give a clue to what's going on.ġ. This is after a restart with camera switched ON. They'll probably pass the buck to their developers and I'll hear no more but it's worth a try.Įdit: See attached image. I've raised this with Fujifilm technical support (here in the UK). Therefore, it's clear (to me anyway) that the camera isn't being detected. However, with X Webcam not running, I connect and switch on the camera but the application doesn't start. In X Webcam, I have checked 'Launch when camera detected'. Both are capable of transferring images from the camera to the iMac.īut when I (manually) start X Webcam, all the controls are disabled. Both take USB power (the green LED on the camera is illuminated). After a reboot I've found that doing in a different order failed (okay only once as I've only done a few reboots. For me, having the camera turned on before starting the app seemed to cause problems (webcam 2 perhaps only listens for a 'new camera' message before doing something, and can only do that once the app has started, but once its done the initialisation it doesn't need to repeat things even when you quit the app.)Ĭamera is still not being detected even with latest software/firmware Once you've got it working it is *much* more tolerant of the order of 1, 2 and 3, *provided you don't reboot*.

performance is pretty good, though I know hub is USB-3, so lots of bandwidth (I'd guess if it negotiated down, you may run into issues of quality as a result, so USB-C is probably safer where possible). This works both with usb-c to usb-c and usb-c to usb-a via an anker hub. Start up a *qualified* app, such as the most recent zoom or chrome version of the likes of MS Teams (I'm starting to prefer Chrome MS teams to native.!) Install all software, wait for reboots.Ģ. It seems things are very fussy about the order of doing things (at least on both macs I have access to).Ġ.

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