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Awasen
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Jan 17, 2022
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Windows Hello, use external camera instead of Laptop

Ok, this has been working, although a bit of a hit-n-miss sometimes for the screens we have in the office, Philips Brilliance 499P, which have Windows Hello compatible cameras. Most often if I boot m...
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    Awasen
    May 28, 2025

    I got pinged about the answer about "Sign in with an external camera or fingerprint reader" in the Sign-in options, so I figured to circle back...

    The external camera issues was solved some months (maybe a year+) after I made this post, at least to work like 90% of the times.

    The setting for using external camera was added to Windows 11 in version 22H2 late October 2023, which finally solved this issue to 100%.

     

    I still have issues on the Philips Brilliance 499P sometimes, but I think that's related to a crappy implementation by Philips as my Logitech Brio 4K works every time at home.

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JobishThomas
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Jan 31, 2025

Hi Team, 
Found an option to enable external cameras under Hello settings in WIn11 Dell, Not sure it's available for all. Worked for me

 

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brainslag
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May 27, 2025

that was it for me! Surface Laptop 6 with Dell WB7022. thx

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