Is there a way to turn off and On the isight camera or app to do it ?????

Have done so. Thanks for reply.

YW.

I also wanted to turn of my camera from the system level, especially for Skype.

I searched this community and I found

Generally deactive webcam

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3856752?answerId=18054597022#18054597022

which pointed me to

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23346/isight-disabler

which is a script that worked.

It allows you to turn the camera off an on without doing surgery on the Library files.

This macupdate link is simply another way to get to the techslaves isight-diabler script mentioned in the http://discussions.apple.com/thread/2757412?answerId=13102676022#13102676022 post earlier in this thread.

All of the methods suggested in this topic can work to disable any built-in USB cameras.

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Mac OSX 10.8.5

Jim,

I'm trying to find something I can install on my iMac that signals the iSight to take a photo every time my Mac is booted up. I remember reading about something like this a few years back but can't find it. Maybe an AppleScript....

thx

I am sure you could do what you want with AppleScript if you knew how. I have seen several books about AppleScript, but I have never read one.

Automator control of Photo Booth could probably do it, too.

Finally, There are likely third part apps that can do what you want.

I did a web search for "camera isight take picture make image boot up Mac AppleScript" and found many topics that might help get you going. Here are a few examples that might be worth a look:

 • Anti-theft protection with Automator « squaresquirrel.ro

 • Mac Automation: Automator for Leopard | TUAW

 • Snap and upload iSight pictures on wake from sleep - Mac OS X Hints

 • OS X taking a photo with the iSight using a command-line tool?

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Mac OSX 10.8.5

Has their been an update to work with Mavericks? I'm running a new MB Air and the script has no effect.

The source page for this approach, http://techslaves.org/isight-disabler/

does not show an update for OS X 10.9 -- at least not yet.

Keep checking there or contact them directly to see if they are working on a newer version.

It seems like Apple changed some of the places where the plugin is stored. The following worked for me:

to disable

chmod 000 /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/AppleCamera.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AppleCamera

chmod 000 /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/FCP-DAL/AppleCamera.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AppleCa mera

to enable change the 000 to 755. You need to be logged in as root, or alternatively write sudo before chmod.

Cheers.

BTW, this is for MacOS X Mavericks (10.9) on a MacBook air from mid-2013.

Many thanks I couldn't get this to work by changing the permissions though I'm sure that's just a user error on my part. I did however move the files on to my desktop, delete from the original locations and restart. This worked perfectly. Replacing the files and restarting reversed the process.

Is there anyone with vastly better scripting skills than me able to turn this into a simple process like iSight disabler?

thanks. this is the first solution that works for me (i'm on Mavericks 10.9.1).

An Applescripted version wuld be great. I'll spend a few minutes on it. Fingers crossed

Hi,

I had my iSight camera for three years, but only learned this recently. ;-)

Gently rotate the front of the lens counter-clockwise (when the lens is pointed at you). The green indicator light will shut off. If you rotate the lens clockwise, the green light will come on.

Note that the green light will only activate or deactivate if there is an iSight app running, like facetime.

Hope that helps....

Dr Dave. wrote: ... I had my iSight camera for three years, but only learned this recently....

iSight User Guide (Manual)

It seems that iSight Disabler 5.0 is for Maverics...

http://techslaves.org/downloads/2010/03/isightdisabler5.scpt_.zip

davidhq wrote:

It seems that iSight Disabler 5.0 is for Maverics...

http://techslaves.org/downloads/2010/03/isightdisabler5.scpt_.zip

Correct. That, and versions for earlier Mac OS, too,

are avaiable at http://techslaves.org/isight-disabler/.

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Mac OSX 10.9