Phone as camera source

[Caaarrrlll-Sama]

Hey everyone

 

TL;DR ver:

I want to use my phone as a webcam (and maybe mic) only software I found so far that works is called DroidCam.

 

Long ver:

I had a very old hand me down webcam that lost support in the first creators update for Windows 10 chucked it cause it was a cheap and crap one shrug before buying a new one I thought why not use my old Galaxy S5 as a webcam. I found some Ghetto software called DroidCam it has a mobile app and pc client (not sure about ios, mac and linux). It works just fine most of the time but you have to have the software running on both devices and it sometimes doesn't work because the mobile app doesn't detect the pc client or the other way around. Does anyone know of alternatives ? And buying a new webcam is a lame answer. The main reason I want to use the phone is I already own the phone and to get a decent webcam would pretty much be a waste of money imo, I use it for light streaming mainly to record my keyboard and mouse area in game and the quality on the phone camera is a lot better than the old webcam.