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Show HN: Stream your pen/paper, explain remote students super effectively
- arthurcolle 6y agoThis worked fine when I first used it, but now it asks for audio/microphone permissions even though in my father's use case he is just using the video aspect and then using Zoom for the audio/video with his students. Can you push a fix to not require all three permissions to work?
- aaossa 6y agoHi, this sounds really usefl and wanted to give it a try, but the connection hanged while trying to connect. I was able to scan the URL in my phone and open the browser (Firefox Nightly), but couldn't see it in action. My phone was stuck in "Peer Created", while desktop (Firefox Developer Edition) was at "Reconnecting!". Is it a network problem on my side?
- santosh898 6y agoHello, I'm a developer behind it. Can you tell us which OS you are on in both phone and desktop? And does both the devices are on same network?
- aaossa 6y agoSorry for the delay. I'm on Android (phone) and Windows (desktop). At the moment of the test I was in the same network I think.
- txzenwozb 6y agoHello fellow hacker, we tried a lot of hit this issue before sending this message but couldn't. Can you pls try again making sure both are same network. We have made a conscious decision not to use a TURN server as we don't want any traffic to go via us.
- galacticdessert 6y agoI have the same issue with Firefox on Windows :). How can I help you in reproducing it?
- txzenwozb 6y agoHello HN, Lot of educators are now teaching remotely but the most favourite tool of a teacher, whiteboard/blackboard is missing from their teaching arsenal To project their physics experiments, chemistry labs, even good old pen & paper live We built a p2p way to stream any smartphone camera to a browser while they are streaming their screeen live to students on zoom, google meet etc Please do checkout and leave your valuble feedback. https://show.veda.ai/ https://show.veda.ai/
- tastroder 6y agoThanks, just to clarify: your servers are only used for the handshake here and the video is kept completely local right? PS: https://show.veda.ai/demo.jpg https://show.veda.ai/demo.jpg I hate how accurate this picture reflects parts of my improvised setup. :)
- santosh898 6y agoYes, our servers are only for signalling. > PS: https://show.veda.ai/demo.jpg https://show.veda.ai/demo.jpg I hate how accurate this picture reflects parts of my improvised setup. :) Nice, we wanted to show the bare minimum required to use the tool.
- arthurcolle 6y agoThis worked fine when I first used it, but now it asks for audio/microphone permissions even though in my father's use case he is just using the video aspect and then using Zoom for the audio/video with his students. Can you push a fix to not require all three permissions to work?
- dingo_bat 6y agoIt works very well and is easy to set up. The example image is also very helpful. I'm sure many teachers will find this useful.
- sh53 6y agoCan we save the recording?
- conradludgate 6y agoI believe the intention is to have the window on the screen then you use screen sharing to share it. So if you're using zoom or obs or another tool, then you can record it while streaming it
- txzenwozb 6y agoWe sure can do it technologically and i imagine you want something like project Haven. But considering the usecase of streaming for teaching, like other comment mentioned there are other ways to do it and if there are more requests for this, we would be happy to add
- ggrelet 6y agoAwesome idea, but I can't seem to make it work. See both mobile and desktop screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/LnM2Uej https://imgur.com/a/LnM2Uej (Safari on both iOS 13 and macOS 10.15)
- santosh898 6y agoThank you for the detailed logs,Can you please confirm if both the devices are on same local network?
- ggrelet 6y agoThey are.
- J_cst 6y agoPerhaps you are using a mesh wi fi extender?
- ggrelet 6y agoI'm not.
- txzenwozb 6y agoThank you for the reply, we are trying to replicate the issue but due to lockdown in our country we couldn't procure few things to test from iOS and Mac safari, pardon the delay we will update you soon.
- rollinDyno 6y agoI have the same issue with Firefox on a Windows machine. My phone is iOS.
- qalqi 6y agoiOS Safari and Windows Firefox is working
- jsilence 6y agoWhat benefit does this have over a cheaply USB webcam and OBS with the obs-virtualcam plugin?
- superhuzza 6y agoRealistically do most people even have separate webcams at home? I know I don't, but there's at least 5 smartphones somewhere in the house. Harnessing those cameras via wifi is pretty useful.
- copperx 6y agoI don't have a separate webcam, but I use my Pixel 2 as an OBS webcam with DroidCamX with much better quality that a fancy $200 Logitech webcam. There is a similar app for iOS. Even better, you can use multiple phones for different angles or to point to a notepad.
- txzenwozb 6y agoHello fellow hacker that was the first thought we even thought to provide a camera source like snapcam and others do but we wanted to keep it simple and take a zero installation approach this is output we got. An interesting tidbit, on javascript side even if we are paying a video, we expect phones to not turn off display but some phones still turn off the display. This was one scenerio when we thought app would be appropriate