Camera Component | Built-in components

Camera Component

This section documents the configuration attributes for each built-in camera model. Use these pages when you are writing a JSON configuration, debugging a config validation error, or looking up the default for a specific attribute.

For how to add and configure a camera component on your machine, see Add a camera.
For the methods you call on a camera in code, see the Camera API reference.
For camera modules outside the built-in set (for example, realsense or viamrtsp), search for camera in the Viam registry. Each registry module’s configuration is documented in its own README on its registry page.

Built-in models

The following camera models ship with viam-server:

Model	Description
`webcam`	The general camera model for USB cameras and laptop webcams.
`ffmpeg`	Uses a camera device, video file, or stream as a camera component.
`transform`	Applies pipeline transformations (classifications, crop, detections, resize, rotate) to another camera’s output.
`fake`	Returns a static gradient image and point cloud, for testing.
`image_file`	Serves color or depth image frames from a file path.

Micro-RDK models

The following camera models ship with the Micro-RDK:

Model	Description
`fake`	A camera model for testing.
`esp32-camera`	An OV2640 or OV3660 camera connected to an ESP32 board.