Thanks for this one.
Firmware. Amazing how many components need a firmware update right out of the box. More amazing how many users never even consider it. I have a 1080HD Wyze webcam that I could not for the life of me get to switch to 1080 HD. Worked great at 720 but 1080 was never even listed when opening cam menus, no matter whos software I used.
It wasn’t until I was writing a C++ library for a cam monitoring program I was mucking with that I noticed that when enumerating the cam 1080 still wasn’t listed as a capability. Never even crossed my mind that a webcam would have firmware. Was thinking driver but that was up to date. Stumbled onto a Wyze firmware update procedure and the bells went off. Updated the firmware and, boom, I now have 1080P available in all software.
Drives, some soundcards, cameras and even some joysticks have updatable firmware. I even had a monitor that wasn’t recognized by windows as anything but generic, until I did a firmware upgrade.
Little things…