[vermon]

Very cool! I thought maybe I'll take a crack at building a better iOS application for these things, but then I remembered that for the Lightning connector you needed to get the permission of the manufacturer if you wanted to interface with a device (tried that once with a Lightning Yubikey and luckily they didn't have any objections). Is this not an issue anymore with USBC iPhones?

[InvaderFizz]

USB-C iPhones work with all kinds of USB-C hubs, devices, keyboards, mice, Ethernet adapters, etc out of the box.

As far as I have seen, USB-C on iOS devices has no authentication restrictions for anything.

The device in the article already has an iOS app, so while there may be a needed app entitlement, I don't think there are any showstoppers for making an iOS app for this particular thermal camera.

[bpye]

I would love to be wrong, but I can't find anything that suggests USB webcams work on USB-C iPhones - I did try in the past for different reasons but couldn't find any way of making it work.

Some USB-C thermal imagers do claim to work, for example this one by HIKMICRO - https://www.hikmicrotech.com/en_us/industrial-products/mini2... - but I'm not sure how...

[radicality]

What surprised me is that iPadOS does have uvc functionality, but iOS doesn't. If you have an ipad with a USBC connector, can try it and will work. For example I used the Orion app for ipad and it will show me live feed of any connected uvc camera.

https://orion.tube/

[fignews]

You are correct. I have the same camera as OP (v1?) but the usbc version does not work with iOS. Can’t understand why. It’s very infuriating.

[seany]

I built an interposer board to do this about 5 years ago (for a product that didn't go anywhere). Ended up using a beagle bone in USB gadget mode to expose an Ethernet adapter to the iPad I was using.