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flobro / flobro-chrome-app

Chrome app of Flobro, floating browser window
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/faaljkdndnfoagcmhedlmbgieoocemch
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Enable microphone and camera #69

Closed aranedam2 closed 4 years ago

aranedam2 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I'm trying to use this with Google Meet. I'm a teacher and I need to see my computer screen as well as my students on Google Meet at the same time. This floating tab app is perfect, except that I can't enable my microphone and camera so that my remote students can see me. Can you help with me asap, please!!

Thank you very very much! -Belen

cornips commented 4 years ago

Thank you for sharing your use case!

Due to many complaints about privacy the microphone and webcam permission was removed in version 0.2.2

I will rethink this use case in the new stand-alone rebuild in #6

cornips commented 4 years ago

Duplicate of #56

czechtech commented 4 years ago

I second @aranedam2 's request. I'm a teacher, and am looking for camera access. However, I understand @cornips 's concern about privacy.

I see the commit that removed the permission for camera/audio: 61aba87

Could camera access be added as an option, off by default? Can a manifest.json file be dynamic?

cornips commented 4 years ago

Unfortunately, Chrome needs the permissions on beforehand so there isn't a dynamic solution. I will investigate options for the stand alone app rebuild in #6.

czechtech commented 4 years ago

There must be more than just including audioCapture and videoCapture in the manifest.json. I installed several older versions of FloBro (0.2.1, 0.2.0, 0.1.2) and testing a live camera on FloBro by visiting this website showed nothing: https://www.kirupa.com/html5/accessing_your_webcam_in_html5.htm

In Chrome, permissions must be confirmed by clicking on a popup, but a popup never happens in FloBro.