can't get the webcam to work

xela

I’ve tried 3 different webcams, played with resolutions and doesn’t matter what I do, I always get the following message:

Webcam.js Error: Could not access webcam:
NotSupportedError: Only secure origins are allowed
(see: https://goo.gl/Y0ZkNV). NotSupportedError: Only
secure origins are allowed (see: https://goo.gl/Y0ZkNV).

anyone knows by any chance what it means and how to get the webcam to work?

ninjabreadman

@xela Apparently this was happening when trying to request an image larger than 720px from webcamjs. See the notes here for Chrome and requiring SSL, and exceptions for localhost and 127.*.*.*. Is the address in your config still localhost?

xela

@ninjabreadman That’s the address in my config:
var config =
{
address: “0.0.0.0”,
electronOptions: {

},
ipWhitelist: [
	"127.0.0.1",
	"::ffff:127.0.0.1",
	"::1",
	"192.168.44.1/24"
],

ninjabreadman

@xela You’ll want the address to be localhost or 127.0.0.1.

I don’t know exactly how it’s working with 0.0.0.0 and reaching the loopback to display the server, but Chromium (and therefore electron) will only allow the camera over http for those addresses.

xela

It works! thank you very much!
but now I can’t connect via remote control…

ninjabreadman

@xela That’s a whitelist issue; the ipWhiteList controls which computers can connect to the MM server. address controls what the electron instance connects to.

Have a look here for @mochman’s ipWhiteList config walkthrough. If you’re on an IPv6 network, it’s not altogether intuitive for those of us who grew accustomed to IPv4.