Mike Rentner
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Q: iSight not Working with Messages/Facetime

I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2009 that I connect to a 22" cinema display (very old but still works beautifully) and I have an older cylindrical iSight camera mounted to the top of the cinema display (laptop is closed and cinema display is only monitor in use).  It has always worked fine.    I connect the iSight to a firewire hard drive and the hard drive to the fire wire port on the MacBook Pro.  Today I am still able to get the isight to work in iMovie.  So the camera works, the wiring works.

 

However, recently I haven't been able to get facetime or skype to recognize the iSight camera.  Why is that?  How can I facetime with my camera?  I don't want to open up my laptop everytime my wife calls.

 

I have MacOS 10.10.2.

PowerBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Mar 12, 2015 12:47 PM

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    Mike Rentner Mike Rentner Mar 12, 2015 1:12 PM in response to Mike Rentner
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    Mar 12, 2015 1:12 PM in response to Mike Rentner

    Skype seems to work with the iSight now but messages/facetime still does not.  I get a message saying "another application is using your camera."  No other application that uses the camera is open.  I don't know why the first post appended that I have 10.9.4.  I have 10.10.2.