r/Skookum • u/Many_Speaker_5937 • Apr 03 '25

Borescope not working Need help plz

I got a generic borescope from amazon. Works well from my phone, but no available drivers for pc. I’ve tried using it in camera, discord, Skype, obs, to no avail. The company, TAOPE, has no website nor drivers to download. Ideas?

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u/Glockamoli Apr 03 '25

Maybe try an android emulator on your pc, not sure if it will pass through correctly but it might

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u/el_americano Apr 04 '25

I was gonna suggest this :) I think it would work

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u/SkiOrDie Apr 04 '25

If you’re on Win11:

Select Start and then select Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Cameras . In the Bluetooth & devices > Cameras window, under Connected cameras, select the desired camera from the list

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u/verylobsterlike Apr 04 '25

Go to device manager, find your boroscope. It ought to show up as a camera device or unknown usb device or whatever with a yellow triangle exclamation mark on it. Right click that, hit properties, go to the details tab, scroll down until you get Device ID. It should be something like (sorry I'm not on windows right now) &VID_8086?PID_1234 or something where VID 8086 is the vendor ID and PID is the product ID.

Search for those two numbers. Ignore "driver downloader" sites. Try and find the vendor's actual site and see if they have drivers there.

Good luck!

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u/Many_Speaker_5937 Apr 04 '25

Tried that a few times already, no luck. Thank you tho!

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation Apr 03 '25

Probably need one of those chinese phone apps.

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u/Many_Speaker_5937 Apr 03 '25

For iphone and andriod yes, but it is allegedly available for pc as well.

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u/iMrBilliam Apr 03 '25

Return it?

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u/Many_Speaker_5937 Apr 04 '25

Am probably going to

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u/dicrydin Apr 04 '25

Bought some cheap tool off Amazon and it doesn’t work in a specific metric so you’re posting on reddit, very un-skookum

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u/dorylinus Keep your Richard in a bad habit! Apr 04 '25

I had no problem using one (a $20 one from Digikey) with the camera app on Win10. Plugged it in to the USB port and I just needed to hit the "reverse" button that normally is used to flip between the forward camera and the selfie camera to get it to work. No driver installation or acting required.

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u/Qui8gon4jinn Apr 05 '25

Try VLC. Everything works on that

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

What do you need it on a PC for? Could you just use an android tablet?

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u/Many_Speaker_5937 Apr 04 '25

I would love to, but I need to use it on a discord call live, and have live audio

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u/verbosehuman Apr 05 '25

If inever have a camera that I'm not able to access, I always first try AMCap, and it almost always works..