Hello HN, Lot of educators are now teaching remotely but the most favourite tool of a teacher, whiteboard/blackboard is missing from their teaching arsenal
To project their physics experiments, chemistry labs, even good old pen & paper live
We built a p2p way to stream any smartphone camera to a browser while they are streaming their screeen live to students on zoom, google meet etc
This worked fine when I first used it, but now it asks for audio/microphone permissions even though in my father's use case he is just using the video aspect and then using Zoom for the audio/video with his students.
Can you push a fix to not require all three permissions to work?
Hi, 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 fellow hacker, we tried a lot of hit this issue before sending this message but couldn't.
Can you pls try again making sure both are same network. We have made a conscious decision not to use a TURN server as we don't want any traffic to go via us.
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
We sure can do it technologically and i imagine you want something like project Haven.
But considering the usecase of streaming for teaching, like other comment mentioned there are other ways to do it and if there are more requests for this, we would be happy to add
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)
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.
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.
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
This worked fine when I first used it, but now it asks for audio/microphone permissions even though in my father's use case he is just using the video aspect and then using Zoom for the audio/video with his students.
Can you push a fix to not require all three permissions to work?
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We built a p2p way to stream any smartphone camera to a browser while they are streaming their screeen live to students on zoom, google meet etc
Please do checkout and leave your valuble feedback. https://show.veda.ai/
PS: https://show.veda.ai/demo.jpg I hate how accurate this picture reflects parts of my improvised setup. :)
> PS: https://show.veda.ai/demo.jpg I hate how accurate this picture reflects parts of my improvised setup. :)
Nice, we wanted to show the bare minimum required to use the tool.
Can you push a fix to not require all three permissions to work?
Can you pls try again making sure both are same network. We have made a conscious decision not to use a TURN server as we don't want any traffic to go via us.
But considering the usecase of streaming for teaching, like other comment mentioned there are other ways to do it and if there are more requests for this, we would be happy to add
I know I don't, but there's at least 5 smartphones somewhere in the house. Harnessing those cameras via wifi is pretty useful.
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
Can you push a fix to not require all three permissions to work?