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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 09/03/16 10:35, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Two quick questions:
> (1) Is there any way to call to few people at the same time (to make sth
> like conference)? In my opinion, it's important, especially in business
> usage.
>
> that would be done with Asterisk integration, which would be a killer
> feature and make a heap of sense, if the Ubuntu phone worked brilliantly
> with your Ubuntu server, but it doesn't.
>
> (2) Is there any way to make video call with someone? If not, where I can
> find bug/feature reported at launchpad.net for that?
>
> that would be webrtc, and without much fanfare, that appears to have been
> included in the last OTA, it is very very nearly awesome - but as far as I
> can make out it doesn't work with the front facing camera. So near, but so
> far. Try talky.io, or to just test the problem with the camera try
> https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/devices/input-output/ and note
> that the camera devices are enumerated, it knows there is a front and back
> camera, but whichever you choose you get the image from the back camera.

That’s https://launchpad.net/bugs/1535818, and the good news is that
there is a workaround for it: you can set the default camera in the
browser settings (drawer menu > Settings > Privacy & Permissions >
Camera & Microphone), then reload the page, and webRTC will be using
that camera. Not great UX, but better than nothing until that bug gets
fixed.

HTH,

 Olivier