Maxsee Viewer

Viewer for the Maxsee USB/Wifi microscope. Receives the microscope's image stream over WiFi and displays it on a PC.

This wouldn't exist without the work done by czietz:

https://www.chzsoft.de/site/hardware/reverse-engineering-a-wifi-microscope/

https://github.com/czietz/wifimicroscope/

Microscope model

This program only works with the MaxSee Wifi microscope. This is sold on Amazon under various brands. If your Microscope provides a Wifi hotspot with the name Maxsee_3a96, chances are that it will work.

Installation

pip install maxsee-viewer

This provides the maxsee_viewer command. As of now, no icons / start menu entries / etc are created. On Windows, you might need to add your Python/scripts directory to path or something, didn't test it.

Usage

1. Switch on the microscope
2. Connect your PC to the Maxsee_3a96 Wifi network
3. Run the command maxsee_viewer.

MaxSee viewer should open immediately and start displaying images continuously.

Use the "Save" menu command to save a snapshot. Snapshots are saved in the current working directory as snapshot0.jpg, snapshot1.jpg, and so on. Snapshots are always 1280x720 pixels as sent by the microscope.

Hacking

If you want to do something else with the live stream, you can just use the receiver without the viewer. src/maxsee.py packages everything necessary in a convenient context manager.

Usage example:

from pathlib import Path
from maxsee import maxsee_receiver

with maxsee_receiver() as receiver:
    # receiver is a queue.Queue object
    data = receiver.get()
    # data is raw JPG byte data
    Path("dump.jpg").write_bytes(data)