Have to allow mic permissions for each video page

[jasonnelson1990]

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[jasonnelson1990]

Appears that this is a browser specific problem. One solution is to include documentation on how to set browser settings to avoid this problem. Not sure if there's an app-solution to this problem.

[ke-nw]

There's nothing we can do in-app for this. Each browser lets you make exceptions that grant mic permissions to an entire website. For Chrome, see: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2693767?p=ib_access_cam_mic&rd=1

[jasonnelson1990]

It's under the advanced settings, manage exceptions hyperlink which leads to another help page. I sent it to our sponsor with some comments, my hope is she can get it working.
In one sense we could just tell her subjects "go into your browser settings", but it might be worth writing some quick set-up guides for each expected browser, so it's all in one place and as compact as possible. But you're right, this isn't actually a problem with our app.

[ke-nw]

The other thing to consider is that most people don't WANT to grant blanket
permissions to an application to allow it to access their microphone at any
time, for any reason...

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Jason Nelson notifications@github.comwrote:

It's under the advanced settings, manage exceptions hyperlink which leads
to another help page. I sent it to our sponsor with some comments, my hope
is she can get it working.
In one sense we could just tell her subjects "go into your browser
settings", but it might be worth writing some quick set-up guides for each
expected browser, so it's all in one place and as compact as possible. But
you're right, this isn't actually a problem with our app.

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[hambone20]

It may be possible to refactor the mic code so it only asks for permission once per run. I think it will involve some J query finagling, but I can look at it tomorrow.

[jasonnelson1990]

That's essentially what the problem is. Accepting it once might not be so bad, but it asks for it every time a video page is loaded, and our sponsor feels this ruins the simulation part of the simulated conversation.

[hambone20]

I have it working so it only asks you once per conversation. I need to do some cleanup before I push it but it seems like this is the best fix for this issue.

[jasonnelson1990]

Great! I'll pull it after you push it, test it, and we'll see about getting it on ARC.

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:45:10 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Simulated-Conversations] Have to allow mic permissions for each video page (#27)

I have it working so it only asks you once per conversation. I need to do some cleanup before I push it but it seems like this is the best fix for this issue.

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[hambone20]

Ok, it's pushed, still needs some general cleanup, but to a user it should work as before, but without the constant loading of the recorder

[jasonnelson1990]

I just tried it out on Firefox and on OperaNext, and I only got the message the first time. I'm prepared to say this issue is resolved, pending code cleanup.