Camera is not connected.

How can I make my camera connect for FaceTime and Photo Booth to work? It keeps telling me that the camera is not connected.

What Linc says. If you're using OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), see http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6431

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My camera is "not connected"

I am trying to use Face Time in my new MacBook Pro, but it says that the camera is not connected. Can anyone help?

Hey Mate!
Try resetting the SMC of your Machine, In my experience this has solved this issue.
Also, to see whether your Camera is recognised by the Mac, go to  > About this Mac > More Info > USB > Check whether USB iSight Camera is listed there.
If it is, you can usually determine that the issue isn't Hardware Related, which means that it's Software, which means that it can definitely be fixed.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Zet.

MacBook Air Camera is not connected after mac OS update

MacBook Air Camera is not connected after mac update
I have a MacBook Air OS X version - 10.9.4 . I updated my mac 1 week before but todayI check that my mac in built camera is not working Even I try to check in this thing in all the apps. Please provide the way how to sort out this issue asap.

Use the suggestions here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
The SMC reset often fixes your problem.
Be sure you follow the instructions for your particular Mac model.
If your problem continues, restart Mac. Then download and install OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 Update (Combo).
If that does not correct the problem, reinstall Mac OS X.
If nothing else works, contact your Apple Service provider or Apple MacBook Support for help.

Camera (annoyingly) not connected

Anybody...please!..I'm trying to import my video clips from my canon camera onto imovies and it keeps telling me my camera is not connected or switched on. My G5 is only 7 months old, the very odd thing is it has worked fine before and all of a sudden it's decided not to. This has also happened to my friend, and she has a sony camera. If anyone has any suggestions I would be so happy.

Hi Nikki
Capture/Import problems:
a) File-Vault is on - turn it off
b) dont Daisy chain camcorder - external hard disk - Mac
c) Slow hard disk (fragmented: repair permissions, repair hard disk, use a faster hard disk)
d) Something is occupying the CPU/System, like other programs, Internet etc.
e) Bad RAM-chips
f) drop outs on the miniDV-tape - make a camera to camera copy on a tape which You have previous recorded with a time code (dummy recording).
g) FW-wire cable OK?
h) Break in the time-code on the miniDV tape (make a camera to camera copy on a tape which is prerecorded with nothing/anything so that the tape has a time-code from beginning to the end)
i) defective camera TRY IT ON ANOTHER MAC !
j) remove bookmarks in iMovie project
k) Do You have desktop pictures or screen-savers active? Try turning them off.
l) Updating - OS has to be a clean install - not an update eg from X.3.x to X.4.x (no good)
OS X.4.0-2 needs a clean install to work (I use X.3.9)
m) Updating QT and/or other updates (to 7 needs v6 to be cleaned out first)
QT v.7 needs a clean install to work (I use 6.5.2)
n) Have you tried the crazy fix:
Open GarageBand, play a few notes, close it and reopen iMovie. The camera should import fine now. (Sue/SDillini)
Yours Bengt W

My internal camera is not connected

my internal camera was working fine and then one day i tried to skype, but couldnt find the camera. I uninstalled skype and tried the camera & it was working. today I went to use iphoto and it said that my camera is not connected. my macbook air is less than 12 months old. can someone help.

annagreece wrote: ... could it be that the camera doesnt work when the battery is low? ...
No.
Sometimes simply restarting Mac gets things working again. Perhap that's what got your camera going again.
However, if your camera's problem continues or begins to occur more often, try Apple's suggestions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 which include the SMC/PMU reset suggestion captfred has already linked.
Always test more than one app in more than one user account.
(Apple has changed the camera's name on new Macs from iSight to FaceTime or FaceTime HD camera, but the same info and troubleshooting applies to all regardless of the name.)
If none of the Troubleshooting suggestions help you, you may have a hardware problem that will require a professional fix. If so, make a current backup of your startup disk and then use the final suggestion:
"... contact Apple or an Apple-Authorized Service Provider for service."
Message was edited by: EZ Jim
Mac OSX 10.7.4

Face time does wortk because camera is not connected??

Face Time does work b/c camera is not connected?? how to fix?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
The same Troubleshooting help for built-in iSight works for FaceTime (and FaceTime HD) cameras, too.
Message was edited by: EZ Jim
Mac OSX 10.7.3

Mac book pro facetime hd camera is not connected

Built in camera is not being detected by applications. The message "there is no connected camera" is displayed

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2090

Camera connector not connecting

New 5G IPOD with a camera connector (-: Followed instructions that came with the accessory and the instructions I found on Apple's web site. I am trying to connect to a canon 20d which is on the apple "supported camera list". But, to no avail...all I get when I connect the camera to the iPod is "unsupported device". I know the cable is good since I can connect the camera to my powerbook and Image Capture grabs the images without a problem. Anyone had success with the camera connector, 5G iPod and a 20D....any tricks?
5G 60GB Mac OS X (10.4.3) Powerbook
Mac OS X (10.4.3)
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Well I not sure how official the report was. This is new Apple store and I was talking with a fledgling genius. His first attempt to get me to go home was that the 5G ipods are not compatible with the camera connector. Then I asked if the camera connector section of the manual was a typo. He took a firmer grip of the might mouse and dug a bit deeper on the mother ship computer. After about a half hour of watching him sweat he made the report that this is an apple engineering issue. Not sure if that is admission of an official problem or some other thing going on. I suspect there will be a fireware upgrade soon...I found some other problems with my iPod that they could not resolve involving syncing with an address book. I was able to get past the unsupported device screen via a suggestion made above. But, the iPod did not "see" the images on my camera therefore did not download them. When I set the camera to PTP mode and connect it to my iPod my camera reports being Busy and does so for a long time...hours. The odd thing is that when I simply plug in the camera connector to the iPod without the camera plugged into it, the iPod reports unsupported device. So I read that to mean that the camera connector itself is an unsupported device. Joys of version 1.0! I am sure this will get worked out but, it may take a while. In the mean time I'll just take more pictures and listen to music. Glad the iPod is a multi-purpose device. I just hate paying for something that doesn't work as advertise.

ISight camera will not connect...

...from my network anyway! I have firewall turned off on my MBP, my wireless router settings have firewall settings off AND my ISP (DSL) router firewall settings are off. It works on my network at the office but any time I try to connect (one-way or otherwise) from home, no dice.
Anyone have any tips?

Hi Ken,
In this case the modem itself is routing to your LAN.
This will almost certainly mean that the ports needed for iChat will have to be opened. (See Rj's first post re Firewall and Ports)
By default most domestic devices that route have ports up to port 1024 open. This allows common apps like Web browsing and mail to work "Out-of-the-Box".
iChat uses a total of 29 ports for iChat to work with AIM, Jabber and Bonjour.
They also use two interent protocols as well.
TCP 5190, 5220, 5222, 5223, 5298
UDP 5060, 5190, 5297, 5298, 5353, 5678, 16384-16403
More on why and which does which here http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/page3.html
In your Network Preferences it will list a "router" IP towards the bottom. This should be the default IP to use in a Web Browser to access the modem's set up pages.
This page http://portforward.com/routers.htm may list your device. By clicking it you will come to a list of Applications and Games that you can also click on.
This will lead to a specific set of instructions for that APP.
Currently that site does not have the right ports for iChat (it used to).
However at the top of the page it will give you instructions on how to access the device with default User ID and Passwords as well as the IP.
Next we have to know if the 192.168.xxx.xxx IP that you computer gets is given out from the modem by it doing DHCP.
(you have one level of DHCP to the ISP that by the nature of the modem stops there)
IF the modem is doing DHCP to the LAN then we have to make sure it or the Wireless router are not doing it.
iChat does not like it when two devices on a LAN are doing DHCP (The nature of routers is that they allow the passing of addressing data through. This creates subnets.
Modem to Computer via router
Router to computer.
As the router is "closer" you only see this IP in the Network prefs. In some circumstances you may want to use two IPs, but iChat is not one of them.
If we know the Modem make and Model and the same for the wireless router we could point you at more direct info.
The goal is to have only 1 DHCP server and one instance of NAT
Network Address Translation (NAT) is how the modem and router move data arriving on one IP number to the number(s) on the other side of the device. There are about 6 main ways of doing this which in iChat's case can lead to problems betewwn either end. Port Forwarding, Port Triggering and DMZ are all use NAT
Now unfortunately differnt routing devices do different things when you change the settings.
Turning Off DHCP in an Apple Airport device makes it a Wireleess Access Point. It allows any addressing from the modem to control the LAN.
Most other devices, if you turn Off DHCP, require that you set Static addresses.
Static addressing limits the data from one device to the next.
To acheive the goal of avoiding NAT being done twice you may need to use Static addressing with UPnP (a non NAT way of opening the port) between the devices.
Modem <-> Router <-> computer
This is two subnets but they are closed and independent of each other.
I know this is a lot of info. It can be shorter if we know what devices you have.
12:32 PM Wednesday; June 14, 2006

TS4185 FaceTime camera says not connected and the Preferences window does not pop up when I try to troubleshoot. suggestions?

Im running a brand new imac. FaceTime had been working great. Suddenly, no call were coming in and when Facetime reopened, it reads "there is no connected camera" Help, please.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
works for iSight as well as FaceTime cameras.

When i go to photobooth it says camera is not connected

i went to help topics but all it says is turn on your camera where do i go to turn on my camerathis is whta it looks like when i open it up

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090

When I turn on photobooth and Facetime it says that my camera is not connected. What is wrong?

When I try to use Photobooth and Facetime on my BRAND NEW Macbook Air it looks like the pictures that I attached. Literally this is a brand new macbook so it can't be because something is broke right?

Yes, sounds like it.

FaceTime & Photobooth states Camera not connected on Lion

I just upgraded to Lion on my macbook air. FaceTime and Photobooth both stated that my camera is not connected. How to fix this problem?

I had that exact same problem... along with many others. None of my applications were opening properly including mail.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
This fixed everything for me. Facetime worked right away, photobooth hung once, but when i force closed and restarted it is working beautifully again. (Scroll down to the blue links and select the one applicable for you, in this case it would be "Resetting the SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own")
Let me know if it works!

Photo booth says camera not connected help!

yo yo! my photo booth says that the camera is not connected. can someone help me? can my camera work anytime soon because i have to use it a soon as possible!!!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP

Same with me. Have you rebooted? That fixed it for me.

Web-cam is not detected yet installed

Hi!
I m doing a program tat can capture movie from available video capturing devices, i hav installed web-cam, but while searching for the devices available(Detecting the device) , it is not identifing the device. And still if i m giving direct the device info to the program("vfj//0")then movie is captured from web-cam.
Program is listed below which is not detecting the web-cam:
public void setMainSource(){
setProcessing(false);
VideoFormat vidformat = new VideoFormat(VideoFormat.YUV);
Vector devices = CaptureDeviceManager.getDeviceList(vidformat);
CaptureDeviceInfo di = null;
if (devices.size() > 0) di = (CaptureDeviceInfo) devices.elementAt(0);
else {
/* I got exception here */
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(parent,
"Your camera is not connected", "No webcam found", JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
return;
try {
ml = di.getLocator();
setMainCamSource(Manager.createDataSource(ml));
} catch (Exception e) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(parent,
"Exception locating media: " + e.getMessage(), "Error", JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
return;
Output:
Web cam not found....
So wht shd be the problem , nyone please explain the problem how to overcome from it.
Thank you

First of all sorry for spelling mistake i write ("vfj//0") rather then "vfw://0"
Yeh! i read your code n your code is also giving the same error
like
Web cam not detected/installed(like something this).
But still i hav attached cam n capturing movie from the code shown below:
//This will not detect the webcam n directly captures the movie, try it out so now wht to do so tat will detect the webcam properly....
CODE:
import javax.media.*;
import javax.media.util.*;
import javax.media.format.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.media.control.*;
class testing extends JFrame implements ControllerListener,ActionListener
     //Variables for gui
     public JButton play=new JButton("Play");
     public JButton stop=new JButton("Stop");
     public JPanel p1=new JPanel();
     public JPanel p2=new JPanel();
     Container c;
     //Variables for videocapturing
     boolean stateTransitionOK = true;
     Object waitSync = new Object();
     Processor p;
     ///Variables required to store the movie
     DataSink sink;
     MediaLocator dest = new MediaLocator("save_video.wav");
     ///methods
     public testing()
          super("Video Capture Demo");
          setupvideocapture();
          setupgui();
     public void setupgui()
          c.add(play);
          c.add(stop);
          addWindowListener(new WindowHandler());
          stop.addActionListener(this);
          play.addActionListener(this);
          setSize(350,350);
          setVisible(true);
          show();
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
          String str;
          str=ae.getActionCommand();
          if(str=="Play")
               try
                    //Before starting capturing store the movie to the HDD
                    p.start();
                    sink = Manager.createDataSink(p.getDataOutput(), dest);
                    sink.open();
                    sink.start();
               catch(Exception e)
          else if(str=="Stop")
               try
               //     sink.stop();
                    p.stop();
               catch(Exception e)
     public void setupvideocapture()
          c=getContentPane();
          c.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
          try
               p = Manager.createProcessor(new MediaLocator("vfw://0"));
               p.addControllerListener(this);
               p.configure();
               waitForState(p.Configured);
               p.setContentDescriptor(null);
               p.prefetch();
               waitForState(p.Prefetched);
               c.add(p.getVisualComponent());
               ///Intializing the saving procedure
          catch(Exception e)
               System.out.println(e);
          public void controllerUpdate(ControllerEvent evt)
               if (evt instanceof ConfigureCompleteEvent || evt instanceof RealizeCompleteEvent || evt instanceof PrefetchCompleteEvent)
                    synchronized (waitSync)
                         stateTransitionOK = true;
                         waitSync.notifyAll();
               else if (evt instanceof ResourceUnavailableEvent)
                    synchronized (waitSync)
                    System.out.println("ResourceUnavailable");
                    stateTransitionOK = false;
                    waitSync.notifyAll();
               else if (evt instanceof EndOfMediaEvent)
                    p.close();
                    System.exit(0);
          boolean waitForState(int state)
               synchronized (waitSync)
                    try
                         while (p.getState() != state && stateTransitionOK)
                              waitSync.wait();
                    catch (Exception e) {}
               return stateTransitionOK;
     //Entry point
     public static void main(String args[])
          testing t=new testing();
class WindowHandler extends WindowAdapter
     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
          System.exit(0);
This is working properly........ so plz if other option plz notify me.
Thank you for helping me.......

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