Markus H70
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Q: Built in iSight camera is not longer working.
Built in iSight camera is not longer working. Worked in the past on all apps.
Now i get the following when I open the apps available with camera:
Face Time - “No Camera Available” (and also interestingly the Preferences option is not available?)
Photo Booth - “There is no connected camera”
iMovie - “No Camera Connected”
Skype - No Camera option
System profiler shows the camera under USB - Built-in iSight. Ok.
Have powered down and restarted. Have reset the SMC. Have tried another account. The problem remains.
Have tried the iSight disabler script. Didn’t help.
According to the support forums I seem to have tried everything. I haven’t changed anything on my system (at least not knowingly)
It’s an Imac 24” early 2009 model running on OSX Mavericks. There are obviously countless other people with this problem when you look at the forums.
Has anyone actually been able to solve this problem? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Would seem a tad stupid not being able to Skype!
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Markus H70
Level 1
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Finally found the problem and it's probably more simple than i previously thought. Although resetting the SMC, cold start and etc is probybly not such a bad idea any on an older machine to clean away the dust! it doesn't actually solve the problem we're discussing.You need to check which programs could be using, blocking or have changed isight priorities. After checking all programs i've installed since i can last remember using my camera I found i'd overlooked Airparrot. I'm afraid that if you install Airparrot then you'll likely lose iSight functions. Airparrot blocks video functions. Great eh.You need to completely uninstall it, drivers and all. Simply using the Airparrot uninstall tool didn't do the job for me. Airparrot's uninstall tool has a delete drivers button but it didn't work. I needed to use Terminal to delete the drivers.
If you havn't used the Terminal before then maybe you should read up first but you'll need to set a password to use the sudo actions. If you don't have one you can set a temporary one and set it back to blank again if you're not into using passwords for home use. Here are a couple of links that will explain everything:
http://support.airsquirrels.com/article.php?id=8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4D3eFf3y64
Good luck. It worked for me!
