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Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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Failed to get camera access. Please grant camera access to use appear.in I have no idea how.

Which browser and OS are you on? Depending on that, it should be somewhere near the top. Firefox has a tendency to close the accept dialogue if you change tabs, and you can retrieve it by clicking the camera icon in the address bar. Unfortunately there is no way for us to improve this UX from our end, but we are working on more informative "waiting" pages.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#42
post #36

Using firefox (26.0) on OS X works just fine. I get prompted to share my camera and microphone. Firefox 26 on Debian Linux, however, never shows the prompt. The appear.in page just asks me to use the menu that should have (but didn't) appear.

This is unfortunately a bug internally in Firefox which affects certain builds of Linux. See related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/12170...

Thanks for the pointer to the bug report!

I've just checked, and the (Linux Firefox) camera/mic permissions menu fails to appear on the other WebRTC conferencing sites linked in this thread, too. So it's definitely not just appear.in.

[Edited to add:] For others suffering from the same problem, the bug report linked in parent suggests it may be fixed in FF 27, which will apparently be released during the week of Feb 4th.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#43
post #33

Getting an empty dark gray page on iOS. I realize Mobile Safari may not be a supported browser, but a graceful failure with some sort of explanation wouldn't hurt, would it?

Developer @ appear.in here. For lack of better ways of communicating, at which page did you experience this? We tested it on our own devices but couldn't replicate.

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Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#44
post #34

Failed to get camera access. Please grant camera access to use appear.in I have no idea how.

Which browser and OS are you on? Depending on that, it should be somewhere near the top. Firefox has a tendency to close the accept dialogue if you change tabs, and you can retrieve it by clicking the camera icon in the address bar. Unfortunately there is no way for us to improve this UX from our end, but we are working on more informative "waiting" pages.

I'm getting the same thing. Firefox on Ubuntu

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#45
post #37

No luck from GP's Firefox OS, but seems to be working on my CentOS workstation. Good job! LE: I'm actually really, really impressed by this. It's bloody great, good job to these guys and to whoever works on similar projects.

We have some guys working on FirefoxOS at our office actually (Telenor Digital does many things). We tested appear.in on a recent build of master, and it worked! Hopefully it will make it out to consumers soon. You can track support through this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750011

That's awesome! Keep up the good job. Currently I'm on 1.1.0.0hd-prerelease but don't mind waiting.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which browser and OS are you on? Depending on that, it should be somewhere near the top. Firefox has a tendency to close the accept dialogue if you change tabs, and you can retrieve it by clicking the camera icon in the address bar. Unfortunately there is no way for us to improve this UX from our end, but we are working on more informative "waiting" pages.

I'm getting the same thing. Firefox on Ubuntu

This is probably related to a known bug with Firefox 26 on Ubuntu 13.10 (and apparently other, similar Linux setups). Track progress here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750011

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#47
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have some guys working on FirefoxOS at our office actually (Telenor Digital does many things). We tested appear.in on a recent build of master, and it worked! Hopefully it will make it out to consumers soon. You can track support through this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750011

That's awesome! Keep up the good job. Currently I'm on 1.1.0.0hd-prerelease but don't mind waiting.

I just talked to the FxOS guys, and they hope the support will be out around 1.4 or 1.5, but no promises. I don't know much more than that unfortunately.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#48
post #33

Getting an empty dark gray page on iOS. I realize Mobile Safari may not be a supported browser, but a graceful failure with some sort of explanation wouldn't hurt, would it?

Developer @ appear.in here. For lack of better ways of communicating, at which page did you experience this? We tested it on our own devices but couldn't replicate.

http://appear.in - just tried on iPad and got the same dark gray page with absolutely nothing on it. Not running iOS 7 on either of the devices though, perhaps check that?

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#49
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Developer @ appear.in here. For lack of better ways of communicating, at which page did you experience this? We tested it on our own devices but couldn't replicate.

http://appear.in - just tried on iPad and got the same dark gray page with absolutely nothing on it. Not running iOS 7 on either of the devices though, perhaps check that?

We will investigate further. Thank you for reporting this! We definitely want graceful degradation for iOS clients.
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