PhoneCam 1.0

Turn your iPhone into a wireless webcam for your PC — over Wi‑Fi, nothing to install on the phone.

Use your phone's much better camera in Discord, Zoom, OBS, Teams, or any app that takes a webcam. The phone just opens a link in Safari — no phone app, no cable, no account, no cloud.

Download & run

1. Download PhoneCam-Portable.zip below and unzip it anywhere.
2. Double‑click PhoneCam.exe. (If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" → More info → Run anyway; it's unsigned, not harmful.)
3. Allow the Windows Firewall prompt on Private networks (first time only).
4. On the iPhone, install the certificate once (Safari only allows the camera over a trusted HTTPS connection) — open the http://…:8080/ address shown in the window, install the profile, then Settings → General → About → Certificate Trust Settings → turn ON "PhoneCam Local CA".
5. Scan the QR code in Safari → Start → allow the camera. The live picture appears in the PhoneCam window. ✅

Phone and PC must be on the same Wi‑Fi network. Full step‑by‑step is in the README.

Use it in Discord / Zoom / Teams (optional)

Install a virtual camera — run install_unitycapture.ps1 once as Admin (no OBS needed), or use OBS Studio — then pick "Unity Video Capture" (or "OBS Virtual Camera") as your camera. Only video is sent; keep using your normal mic.

Highlights

• 📱 No phone app — Safari + WebRTC.
• 🖥️ No OBS, no C++ build required for the core — a small Python relay + an embedded‑browser preview keep the picture smooth at high fps.
• 🎥 Virtual‑camera bridge feeds the phone's video straight into Discord/Zoom/Teams.
• 🔍 iOS‑style zoom & lens switching (0.5× / 1× / 2×), 60 fps at 720p on most iPhones, bitrate/FPS/resolution controls, flash, mirror, rotate, framing grid, image adjustments.
• 🔒 Runs entirely on your LAN — no cloud, no account, no telemetry. The local CA private key never leaves your PC and is never shipped.

Notes

• Windows 10/11. The portable folder ships its own Python — nothing else to install.
• Source is in this repo (run_app.ps1 to run from source with Python 3.12).

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