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Feature Request: Not idle if webcam is active #90

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xpac1985 opened this issue Jan 25, 2022 · 1 comment
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Feature Request: Not idle if webcam is active #90

xpac1985 opened this issue Jan 25, 2022 · 1 comment

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@xpac1985
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My suggestion for regular users of Teams, Webex, Zoom etc is:
Add an option in settings that does not consider the user idle if the webcam is being used. Windows 10+ can show this as an icon, I could imagine (but do not know) that's it's a rather simple API call to detect that.

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Seems there is no simple API, this would see if its in use but ends up turning the camera on if it's not, which is not desirable:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61132854/how-can-i-determine-if-a-webcam-is-in-use-on-windows-10-without-activating-the-c

This can detect if there is a webcam at all but that is not sufficienct:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1589154/how-can-i-detect-if-there-is-a-webcam-connected-to-the-pc/1595188#1595188

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