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cmauri / eviacam

webcam based mouse emulator
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Toggle camera during a video meeting #28

Closed nash8350 closed 4 years ago

nash8350 commented 4 years ago

I have a feature request to add a button or hotkey to toggle the camera. The reason is because I use video meetings like Zoom/Hangouts quite frequently. I can't share my video in Zoom with eViacam turned on. I'd like a quick way to turn off video in eViacam temporarily during a video meeting, then turn it back on again when I'm done.

Currently I have to exit the app and then reopen it again. I run with admin permissions so I have retype my password in again too. That's kind of a pain and would be easier if I could leave the app open but just toggle the camera.

One advantage of a hotkey is that I can wire a speech recognition command and just stay "toggle camera" and it will do it for me without even maximizing the window.

nash8350 commented 4 years ago

I found an even better solution. I can use ManyCam to create a virtual camera. I can then use this virtual camera in both Zoom and eViacam without having to toggle between them. Closing this issue.