Failed to access your microphone

Mixou · December 15, 2020, 2:05pm

I am doing some basic tests with iframe api. I have an nginx server installed locally. When I hit the player with http://localhost/player.html, everything seems to work. The player is loaded in my chrome browser, I am asked for proper permissions related to the microphone and the camera.

Now, if I hit the nginx server via my notebook IP address, some weird things happen: I am able to load the player, the microphone and camera are turned off, I am not even asked for permissions, and yet I cannot enable them. I get the yellow error message: “Failed to access your microphone. Cannot use microphone for unknown reason. cannot read property ‘getUserMedia’ of undefined.”

I am using the default jitsi iframe example provided here:

github.com

jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/examples/api.html

<html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/html">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
    </head>
    <body>
        <script src="https://meet.jit.si/external_api.js"></script>
        <script>
            var domain = "meet.jit.si";
            var options = {
                roomName: "JitsiMeetAPIExample",
                width: 700,
                height: 180,
                parentNode: undefined,
                configOverwrite: {},
                interfaceConfigOverwrite: {}
            }
            var api = new JitsiMeetExternalAPI(domain, options);
        </script>
    </body>

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Any clue?

Thanks.

damencho · December 15, 2020, 2:11pm

In order webrtc to work in any app in a browser you need https, it does not work when using http.

Mixou · December 15, 2020, 5:26pm

Thanks. That made my day.