Remember settings for camera and mic
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Nathan Dench
It would be great if Screen had settings to always join meetings with the camera and mic either on or off.
Since the recent update, whenever I join a meeting Screen asks if I want the camera and mic on or off. It was a much nicer flow before when it would jump straight into the meeting with both disabled by default.
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J Sherwani (Pop Team)
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Nathan Dench: Makes perfect sense! Thanks for the additional context, and I'm glad we've already addressed your feature request with our update earlier today 😄
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Tom Newby
I also very much enjoyed clicking "Join meeting" from slack and landing straight into the call. We share with camera off but mic's on pretty much all the time.
J Sherwani (Pop Team)
Tom Newby: We pushed out an update a few hours ago that skips the preview page when joining from a Slack call, since I agree, the instant join via Slack is really awesome! Let me know if you're not seeing that.
J Sherwani (Pop Team)
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for the feature request. Just so we can understand the context:
- Do you typically join meetings via the Slack integration? If not, how do you communicate meeting IDs today?
- Is there a reason you prefer to keep the camera and mic off?
Before, we had the checkboxes for which to enable in the main page, which has been moved to the preview page. But if we understand exactly how you're using Screen, we can find a solution that works well for you as well as others. Thanks!
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Nathan Dench
J Sherwani (Pop Team): Thanks for the quick reply!
Yes, I usually join meetings via the Slack integration so your response to Tom above will solve this for me as well.
I prefer to keep my camera off because my main use case is to screenshare with audio, and video is not required. However I also like to join calls with both camera and mic disabled so that I can turn them on when I choose to. As opposed to being dropped into a call with everything automatically turned on.
This prevents me accidentally interrupting whatever is happening in the call when I join and also any potentially embarrassing scenarios where I'm doing/saying something as I join the call 😂