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objective-see / OverSight

OverSight monitors a mac's mic and webcam, alerting the user when the internal mic is activated, or whenever a process accesses the webcam.
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Can't enable camera #16

Open cbrwizard opened 3 years ago

cbrwizard commented 3 years ago

Hello, I have an issue with the camera on my macbook pro after using Oversight. I believe I have disabled my camera in one of the popups for oversight and now it doesn't work for any app (even PhotoBooth). In google meet it says that my camera is detected but it's disabled by the system. I've double checked the settings and camera seems to be enabled for all apps I need. I've uninstalled Oversight and still have this issue.

Please help

objective-see commented 3 years ago

Odd,

OverSight simply monitors for notifications from the system that the camera or mic was activated. It does not interact with the mic or the camera. Moreover, if you click 'Block' via the popups, it simply terminates the whole program (that was accessing the mic/camera). Again, it does not directly interact specifically with either.

As such, there is no way for OverSight to permanently disable the mic nor camera 🤷🏻‍♂️

cbrwizard commented 3 years ago

Damn :\ thank you for response, that might have been other software then (not sure which). Is there any chance you know which command can I run to re-enable camera system wide?