Does n8n offer a built-in USB camera node for live video capture?

There isn’t a built-in USB camera node in n8n. n8n’s built-in nodes are primarily focused on integrating with web services, processing data, and handling files or images that have already been captured.

For a use case like capturing live video or images directly from a USB camera, you could consider the following approaches:

• External Capture Script/Application: Use a separate tool to capture images or video from your USB camera. The tool could save the captured files locally or expose them via a web API. Then, you can use n8n nodes such as Read/Write Files from Disk or the HTTP Request node to bring that data into your workflow.

• Custom Node Development: If your use case demands tight integration, developing a custom node that interfaces directly with your camera hardware might be an option. n8n supports custom nodes, and you could leverage libraries available for accessing USB cameras in your programming language of choice.

These approaches allow you to integrate live video data or captured images from your USB camera into n8n workflows for further processing, such as object detection or quality control.