Anyway to use libcamera instead of v4l?

I'm running Arch Linux on a Microsoft Surface Pro 4. The cameras on the Surface Pro 4 use libcamera instead of v4l. However, I was able to get Howdy to work with the Surface Pro 4 by creating a loopback device to /dev/video42, and setting this as the Howdy video device. The loopback was created using the Gstreamer Loopback Device for other Applications instructions on this website: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Camera-Support

The problem is that this command needs to be ran to initial the camera prior to using Howdy:

gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name='\SB.PCI0.I2C2.CAMF' !
video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720,framerate=30/1,format=NV12
! videoconvert ! video/x-raw,format=YUY2 ! queue !
v4l2sink device=/dev/video42

Is there a way to get Howdy to also use libcamera?