Microphone usage in p2p

[TimboE90]

Hey,

we established a p2p connection with AntMedia iOS SDK where only the microphone and camera of one device (sender) should be used. When moving the app in background there is a red indicator on both devices.

How can we disable the usage of microphone (and camera) on receiver / watcher of the p2p connection? Or enable it only for example when the watcher tap/hold a button to speak?

Thanks in advance!

[Selim Emre]

Hi TimboE90,

Have a good day. You can disable communication when the app skips the background. I'm not an iOS Developer. Here is the iOS app life cycle -> https://medium.com/@ansujain/ios-application-life-cycle-d517a3c44e7e

I think you can call stop() function in applicationWillResignActive state.

We updated our iOS SDK. You can check our iOS SDK Guide -> https://github.com/ant-media/Ant-Media-Server/wiki/WebRTC-iOS-SDK-Guide

Also here is the iOS SDK Reference page -> https://github.com/ant-media/Ant-Media-Server/wiki/WebRTC-iOS-SDK-Reference

I hope, I could help you.

Best Regards,

Selim

 

[TimboE90]

Hey Selim,

thanks for your answer. We know how to stop the p2p connection but that's not the goal.

The problem is that the microphone is in use even if "audio enabled" is false. To have an example: when having a feature like walkie-talkie / "push button to speak"  the microphone should only be active/used when while the button is pressed. So how to enable / disable the microphone? I think we need an iOS developer of your SDK to clarify this…

[TimboE90]

Same with the camera…! Easy to see with iOS 14 and your AntMedia iOS Sample app.

When having a p2p connection and disable camera stream the camera is senseless used in background. See screenshot where camera is disabled but the green indicator shows that the app uses the camera… that's wrong!

 

 

[Robert Berger]

This seems to be true with the Javascript sdk as well.

 

 

[Selim Emre]

Hi,

You need to make a camera&track on/off processes on the fly. Basically, you can see these process examples on switchCamera function that is in AntMediaClientProtocol class. You need to make some development on the SDK side for your requirements.

if you close the camera, you should remove the video track for the change. If you want to open camera, you need to call createVideoTrack function and add a video track to peer connection. 

I hope, it's clear.

Best Regards,

Selim