PipeCam

PipeCam gives live view, snapshots and video recording for cheap USB-C pipe inspection cameras (endoscopes) on Sailfish OS. These cameras - sold as USeePlus, Geek szitman or supercamera - look like webcams but are not: they announce themselves as vendor-class USB devices, so no kernel driver binds them and no /dev/video node appears. PipeCam drives the USB endpoints directly with libusb and decodes the stream itself. Everything runs on the device - no network, no cloud, no telemetry.

WHAT IT DOES
- Live viewfinder from the endoscope camera
- Snapshots and video recording, saved to your gallery
- Rotate/flip the view for whichever way the camera points
- Works with the vendor-class endoscopes that a normal camera app cannot open

SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The common USeePlus / "Geek szitman" / supercamera endoscope family (USB VID:PID 2ce3:3828 or 0329:2022). Other endoscopes may use different protocols and are not guaranteed.

PLEASE READ - USB ACCESS AND SANDBOX
The camera is a vendor-class USB device, so the app opens its raw USB node with libusb. The package installs a udev rule (/etc/udev/rules.d/999-harbour-pipecam-usb.rules) that sets the camera's USB node (matched on the two known camera VID:PIDs, device node only) to world-accessible (mode 0666), and the app runs without the Sailfish sandbox because it needs that raw USB access. Nothing else on the USB bus is affected; the device is a camera with no stored data. Removing the app removes the rule.

STATUS
Proof of concept / work in progress, shared as is, no warranty (GPLv3). Built and tested on a Sony Xperia 10 III with the USeePlus-type endoscope. Needs USB host mode (an OTG adapter) and a data-capable USB-C connection.

ARCHITECTURES
aarch64 (Sailfish OS 5.0+). No armv7hl build.

Written with Claude Code (Anthropic).

Source, issues, releases: https://github.com/JimKnopfIoT/harbour-pipecam