Bug 492591 - Camera Indicator applet falsely shows "No camera is in use" when non-KDE apps are using the camera
Summary: Camera Indicator applet falsely shows "No camera is in use" when non-KDE apps...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 482614
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Camera Indicator widget (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-09-03 12:19 UTC by boeroboy
Modified: 2024-10-28 04:50 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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2024-10-28 04:50 UTC, boeroboy
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Description boeroboy 2024-09-03 12:19:37 UTC
SUMMARY
I love the concept of this tray entry but it doesn't seem to work. It installed itself during a Fedora update but I see it sits idle showing no camera active even while I'm on a Teams meeting clearly using the primary (only) webcam in this Dell XPS laptop. Also curiously the applet shows two cameras though my system only has one.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Fire up a teams meeting or any app that uses webcam.
2. Show self view to verify camera is live.

OBSERVED RESULT
Camera Indicator applet still shows "No camera is in use"

EXPECTED RESULT
"Camera is in use"


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
> kinfo
> Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
> KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
> KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
> Qt Version: 6.7.2
> Kernel Version: 6.10.6-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
> Graphics Platform: X11
> Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
> Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM
> Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I have a screenshot but it has quite a bit of sensitive info so will only share directly if needed plz.
Comment 1 Akseli Lahtinen 2024-09-04 13:13:20 UTC
Can confirm it doesn't work with my webcam or laptop integrated camera, when using with Firefox on discord.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.6-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
Comment 2 Christian Ortega 2024-09-05 01:45:54 UTC
In my case, it doesn't work with my laptop integrated camera when from Firefox, Chromium, Zoom (Flatpak) and MS Teams (Flatpak) . It works fine with Kamoso.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.6-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 19.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-09-05 18:59:13 UTC
Can confirm that it appears with Kamoso but not with other apps. I'm pretty sure this used to work. I recall it appearing in the System Tray for more than just Kamoso in the past.

JFYI the fact that it shows two cameras is probably because the IR camera for facial recognition technically shows up as a different device. I get this on my machine too. You can actually select the IR camera in video apps! It produces a pretty trippy picture. :D
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2024-10-28 04:00:03 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482614 ***
Comment 5 boeroboy 2024-10-28 04:50:32 UTC
Created attachment 175293 [details]
attachment-4052190-0.html

Excellent thank you!

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 12:26 PM Nate Graham <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>
wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492591
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> Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>          Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE
>              Status|CONFIRMED                   |RESOLVED
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> --- Comment #4 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> ---
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> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482614 ***
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