# Connect USB Webcam in Perspective **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81, perspective\ **Created:** [September 30, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-usb-webcam-in-perspective/96621 "2024-09-30T17:45:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-usb-webcam-in-perspective/96621/3 "2024-09-30T18:08:28Z")
Be aware that you won't be able to access a webcam connected to the Perspective client machine. But if you mean to connect to a gateway machine, then you want this: > [@Automation Professionals' Image Streamer Driver Module](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automation-professionals-image-streamer-driver-module/29371): > > Automation Professionals is pleased to announce a Release Candidate for its new driver module, supporting the live Network Image transmission format of [Keyence CV-5000](https://www.keyence.com/products/vision/vision-sys/cv-5000/index.jsp) machine vision controllers, plus support for common Network Video streams via [OpenCV](https://opencv.org/). Stream metadata is exposed as OPC items, and the output streams are Motion JPEG. The IP Camera Viewer Component in Vision can consume these streams, making it possible to integrate IP Cameras that don't have MJPEG support or have poor support f… When OpenCV and FFmpeg are installed properly on the gateway, this module will load the Java versions of OpenCV's libraries as `system.cv2`. Unfortunately, OpenCV's use of numpy doesn't translate--you have to use OpenCV's `Mat` types. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connect-usb-webcam-in-perspective/96621)._