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How to control my Laptop camera cover?

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I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on my new laptop.

The laptop has a camera cover for privacy. The Cover can be controlled with Fn+F10 in Windows, but when running Ubuntu I can't control that cover.

I tried to get information about that with: v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --all But that gives me this, and I don't see any control for the cover:

Driver Info:
      Driver name      : uvcvideo
      Card type        : USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam: USB2.0 HD
      Bus info         : usb-0000:00:14.0-9
      Driver version   : 5.15.64
      Capabilities     : 0x84a00001
            Video Capture
            Metadata Capture
            Streaming
            Extended Pix Format
            Device Capabilities
      Device Caps      : 0x04200001
            Video Capture
            Streaming
            Extended Pix Format
Priority: 2
Video input : 0 (Camera 1: ok)
Format Video Capture:
      Width/Height      : 640/480
      Pixel Format      : 'YUYV' (YUYV 4:2:2)
      Field             : None
      Bytes per Line    : 1280
      Size Image        : 614400
      Colorspace        : sRGB
      Transfer Function : Rec. 709
      YCbCr/HSV Encoding: ITU-R 601
      Quantization      : Default (maps to Limited Range)
      Flags             :
Crop Capability Video Capture:
      Bounds      : Left 0, Top 0, Width 640, Height 480
      Default     : Left 0, Top 0, Width 640, Height 480
      Pixel Aspect: 1/1
Selection Video Capture: crop_default, Left 0, Top 0, Width 640, Height 480, Flags:
Selection Video Capture: crop_bounds, Left 0, Top 0, Width 640, Height 480, Flags:
Streaming Parameters Video Capture:
      Capabilities     : timeperframe
      Frames per second: 30.000 (30/1)
      Read buffers     : 0
                     brightness 0x00980900 (int)    : min=-64 max=64 step=1 default=0 value=0
                       contrast 0x00980901 (int)    : min=0 max=100 step=1 default=50 value=50
                     saturation 0x00980902 (int)    : min=0 max=100 step=1 default=64 value=64
                            hue 0x00980903 (int)    : min=-180 max=180 step=1 default=0 value=0
 white_balance_temperature_auto 0x0098090c (bool)   : default=1 value=1
                          gamma 0x00980910 (int)    : min=100 max=500 step=1 default=300 value=300
                           gain 0x00980913 (int)    : min=0 max=128 step=1 default=64 value=64
           power_line_frequency 0x00980918 (menu)   : min=0 max=2 default=2 value=2
                        0: Disabled
                        1: 50 Hz
                        2: 60 Hz
      white_balance_temperature 0x0098091a (int)    : min=2800 max=6500 step=10 default=4600 value=4600 flags=inactive
                      sharpness 0x0098091b (int)    : min=0 max=100 step=1 default=50 value=50
         backlight_compensation 0x0098091c (int)    : min=0 max=2 step=1 default=1 value=1
                  exposure_auto 0x009a0901 (menu)   : min=0 max=3 default=3 value=3
                        1: Manual Mode
                        3: Aperture Priority Mode
              exposure_absolute 0x009a0902 (int)    : min=50 max=10000 step=1 default=166 value=166 flags=inactive
         exposure_auto_priority 0x009a0903 (bool)   : default=0 value=1

Is there any way to control the cover from ubuntu?

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