Fun with Flick and Fame

Ok, not quite one of my normal posts this is a quick post regarding my recent frustrations with installing my new Logitech MX Brio 705 - you know, the business-geared webcam.

I don’t get it, its the drivers that boggle me. That control and updates are delivered using the Logi Tune app - why?

This isn’t something that users are likely to buy for their personal pc work, the pc that they have admin rights over, and are free to customise (or wreck) to their hearts content, this is the business camera, and is likely to be used with a heavily locked-down pc, one that will probably have locks in place preventing users from downloading and/or executing non-whitelisted content.

So why Logi, just why? When for the business variant of this camera have you designed it to require the use of you app? Why can it not just work - properly that is? Sure, when connected direct to a USB-C port, the camera will work to a degree, but pop open device manager, and you’ll see just how much Windows say’s it isn’t working. And what’s more, if like me you have a number of devices and only limited ports, you’ll probably be using a dock. But frustratingly, the camera won’t even be recognised by your pc until it is ‘registered’ on a direct connect. Which means a daily rigmarole of removing the 4k USB-C cable from the camera (which knocks it from its precise location on the monitor), connect the 2k USB-C to the camera, disconnect the dock, and then connect the camera.
Open Windows camera, just to be sure the Brio has registered and is working fine, and then reverse this but with the added joy of needed to reposition the camera as well.

All of this could be negated if Logitech were to just bundle the drivers with the camera, just like my older C920 that just works (and continues to do so).

And so, to save myself from further pain, here, I’m providing (mostly for myself really), a 7zipped version of the Logi Tune app, that I’m hoping I shall be able to download with elevated rights.

Next post - more Tableau joy.