logitech quickcam vision pro for mac not working out of the box as claimed

Your iMac has USB2, so uninstall iUSBcam and Macam as support is built in to 10.4.11

I'm actually having the same issue. I bought the vision pro today. It shows up in my system profiler, but not under devices in Finder. Any suggestions?

Hi,

Cameras do not appear in the Finder list of Drivers or Memory devices like some did in OS 9

If the System Profiler "Sees" it then the next thing to try is if different apps can access it.

iMovie can see many formats from many cameras.
I have a Analogue Camcorder that I can play through a DV Converter.
the DV Converter can be set to pass-through the Analogue signal and iMovie can see it.
It of course can see the DV signal.

Photo Booth will see most USB Cameras even if you have USB 1.1 ports if you have a Mac Driver for what ever camera it is.

iChat is the fussiest in this respect.
Originally it would only see DV input from the Firewire iSight. This was in fact any DV input over firewire and included other DV Firewire webcam and DV firewire Camcorders.

The Utility iSUBCam added the ability to use the external iSight on Macs with lower than G3/600mghz specs AND to use certain USB Cameras.
It has been updated several times to work with newer cameras and the OS.

At 10.4.9 Apple introduced a UVC driver (USB Video Class) into the OS so that UVC compliant (Vista Certified) cameras could be used over USB 2.0 able computers without the need for another driver.
(this does not need the iSUBCam Utility)

Can you see pictures in other applications ?



9:26 PM Tuesday; February 10, 2009

Hi,

Can I clarify ?

In iChat Menu > Preferences you can not access the Audio/Video Section ?
Or in the Video Menu (or Audio) next to Buddies you can not access the Camera Enabled item or the Microphone Enabled item ?

Or the menu to the right of Buddies reads Audio and the Camera item is grey out and
No Buddies display a Video icon ?

Working from the last.
Go to the View Menu and check Show Video Status Is ON/Selected.
This should bring Video icons to your Buddies.
It should also allow access to the Camera Enabled item in the menu to the left of Buddies.

Can you now turn On the Camera (Select Camera Enabled to make it have a tick) ?

If Not, go to your Home Folder and then the Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.chat.plist and restart/relaunch iChat.

I take it with all these Installs and deletions you have run Repair Permissions ?
Disk Utility is in Applications/Utilities
When opened you need to select the Hard Drive by Name (Macintosh HD) rather than the manufacturer's name.
The First Aid in the tabs on the right and in the right hand pane but lower Left > Repair Permissions buton



9:34 PM Tuesday; February 10, 2009

I have the same problem: I plug in the logitech tuickcam vision pro to the USB 20 slot on any of the three G$s I have (all PPC running 10.4.11), and the only sign of activity is that in the about this mac > more info > USB is (as others have reported) is USB Device" under "USB High Speed Bus." I installed macam 9.0.2, hoping it would have a driver, but when I ran it I was told "Status No Camera." I notice that macam does not list this camera as supported.

Yet the Logitech specifications page says it should work with 10.4.11.

I understand that UVC was introduced around 10.4.9. How can I test it is there?

Which Logitech QuickCam Pro ?

There is a Notebook one and one listed as Quickcam Pro 5000 in table 1

See this This is the Important Notice link in that table.

You can assume you have the UVC Driver.



9:32 PM Monday; March 16, 2009

Ralph asked about the precise model name:

Product Level 1: Logitech
Product Level 2: Cameras
Product Level 3: QuickCam Vision Pro for Mac
Date Created: 03/13/2009 07:06 PM
Last Updated: 03/13/2009 07:06 PM
Status: Unresolved
M/N: V-UBM46
PID or S/N: LZ829BP
P/N : 860-000143

Also, I tried it on a i686 mac running 10.4.11 with the same results.

I ask again: Is there a way to verify that UVC was installed?

Do you have access to a X-Box 360 camera ?

These are UVC cameras wand work with the Mac Driver.

So this Camera ?

It says on that page that it is a Rightlight2® Camera and at the bottom does say UVC (Rightlight2® does tend to mean UVC Compliant).

If you have two macs that are both running 10.4.9 or above with USB 2 ports then it would seem to be the Camera. I.e it is unlikely to have missed the UVC driver on both computers.
Realistically it will be one of the Extensions in System/Library/Extensions
It will be one of the IO USB ones but I am not sure precisely which.

The Ecamm Camera Guide page does not actually list it. But then it only list a few of the cameras anyway.



9:26 PM Wednesday; March 18, 2009