facetime camera gets it's own IP address

[Stephen Hawkins]

Looking at my Firewall logs this morning I spotted a new IP address in my Router Client list. There was no device name but the mac address says the vendor is Canon. Then I remembered that yesterday afternoon I did a zoom meeting with the people I invested my retirement money with.
It appears that when you use the face-time camera it gets it's own IP address. Any idea why?

 

[chrfr]

Looking at my Firewall logs this morning I spotted a new IP address in my Router Client list. There was no device name but the mac address says the vendor is Canon. Then I remembered that yesterday afternoon I did a zoom meeting with the people I invested my retirement money with.
It appears that when you use the face-time camera it gets it's own IP address. Any idea why?

Are you using a standalone camera? The built in cameras do not get IP addresses. This sounds like you have a digital camera that has wifi built in, or perhaps a printer, but not a webcam as Canon isn't in the webcam business.

 

[Stephen Hawkins]

I found it. I use the internal camera on the iMac and there is no other camera. I also don't print anything. However my wife has a printer the she almost never uses and that was it. The fact that this appeared right after the zoom call was a red herring.