Awesome idea, but I can't seem to make it work. See both mobile and desktop screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/LnM2Uej (Safari on both iOS 13 and macOS 10.15)
Perhaps you are using a mesh wi fi extender?
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#14Hi, this sounds really usefl and wanted to give it a try, but the connection hanged while trying to connect. I was able to scan the URL in my phone and open the browser (Firefox Nightly), but couldn't see it in action. My phone was stuck in "Peer Created", while desktop (Firefox Developer Edition) was at "Reconnecting!". Is it a network problem on my side?
Hello, I'm a developer behind it. Can you tell us which OS you are on in both phone and desktop? And does both the devices are on same network?
Sorry for the delay. I'm on Android (phone) and Windows (desktop). At the moment of the test I was in the same network I think.
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#15What benefit does this have over a cheaply USB webcam and OBS with the obs-virtualcam plugin?
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#16What benefit does this have over a cheaply USB webcam and OBS with the obs-virtualcam plugin?
Realistically do most people even have separate webcams at home?
I know I don't, but there's at least 5 smartphones somewhere in the house. Harnessing those cameras via wifi is pretty useful.
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#17What benefit does this have over a cheaply USB webcam and OBS with the obs-virtualcam plugin?
Realistically do most people even have separate webcams at home? I know I don't, but there's at least 5 smartphones somewhere in the house. Harnessing those cameras via wifi is pretty useful.
I don't have a separate webcam, but I use my Pixel 2 as an OBS webcam with DroidCamX with much better quality that a fancy $200 Logitech webcam. There is a similar app for iOS. Even better, you can use multiple phones for different angles or to point to a notepad.
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#18Can we save the recording?
I believe the intention is to have the window on the screen then you use screen sharing to share it. So if you're using zoom or obs or another tool, then you can record it while streaming it
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#19What benefit does this have over a cheaply USB webcam and OBS with the obs-virtualcam plugin?
Hello fellow hacker that was the first thought we even thought to provide a camera source like snapcam and others do but we wanted to keep it simple and take a zero installation approach this is output we got.
An interesting tidbit, on javascript side even if we are paying a video, we expect phones to not turn off display but some phones still turn off the display. This was one scenerio when we thought app would be appropriate
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps you are using a mesh wi fi extender?
I'm not.
Thank you for the reply, we are trying to replicate the issue but due to lockdown in our country we couldn't procure few things to test from iOS and Mac safari, pardon the delay we will update you soon.