{"id":1294,"date":"2014-05-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/05\/25\/powertip-use-powershell-to-discover-laptop-webcam\/"},"modified":"2014-05-25T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-discover-laptop-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-discover-laptop-webcam\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Discover Laptop Webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to discover a webcam attached to your laptop.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a webcam or camera that is attached to my laptop?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Get-CimInstance<\/b> or the Get-WmiObject<\/b> cmdlet, examine the Win32_PnpEntity<\/b> WMI class,
          and look for something that matches camera<\/b> in the caption.<\/p>\n

By using Get-CimInstance<\/b> in Windows PowerShell 3.0 or later:<\/p>\n

Get-CimInstance Win32_PnPEntity | where caption -match 'camera'<\/p>\n

By using Get-WmiObject<\/b> in Windows PowerShell 2.0:<\/p>\n

Get-WmiObject Win32_PnPEntity | where {$_.caption -match 'camera'}<\/p>\n

Note <\/b> Not all webcams populate exactly the same way, so it may take a bit of searching
to find the right string.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to discover a webcam attached to your laptop.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a webcam or camera that is attached to my laptop?  Use the Get-CimInstance or the Get-WmiObject cmdlet, examine the Win32_PnpEntity WMI class,          and look for something that matches camera in the caption. By using Get-CimInstance in Windows PowerShell 3.0 or later: Get-CimInstance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to discover a webcam attached to your laptop.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a webcam or camera that is attached to my laptop?  Use the Get-CimInstance or the Get-WmiObject cmdlet, examine the Win32_PnpEntity WMI class,          and look for something that matches camera in the caption. By using Get-CimInstance in Windows PowerShell 3.0 or later: Get-CimInstance […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}