TinyPilot with webcam and audio support - When?
- @cghague
I understand that TinyPilot currently does not have support for webcam nor audio. The digital nomad subreddit (r/digitalnomad) is 2m+ strong, and would love a solution where they can leave their hardware stat- side, while traveling abroad. It's much easier to replace a cheap laptop/Chromebook than a high end workstation.
The biggest drawback with TinyPilot (and other solutions) is the lack of webcam and audio support. Is there any way to implement this? It would open this community to a huge market.
EDIT: I understand some people may use their phone for the actual Zoom/Meet call. However, whenever you need to screenshare, you would have two instances of yourself (1- screensharing your computer, 2- audio/video on the phone). I'm looking for a way to avoid this.
- CCharles Hague @cghague2023-04-24 18:00:41.628Z
Hi Plane Reflection, thank you for reaching out with your question!
The TinyPilot Voyager 2a has support for HDMI audio, but unfortunately this only works from the target machine to the browser. We do have internal tickets open to investigate the possibility of forwarding a microphone from the browser to the target machine, but we don't have a timeline for this just yet. I don't believe we currently have any plans to add webcam support, but it's an interesting idea so I'll share it with the team.
I appreciate how useful audio support would be so as an interim solution you might be interested in JackTrip. I believe that some other users have experimented with it with varying degrees of success.
- PPlane Reflection @PlaneReflection
Hi Charles,
It's been a year since I've made this post. Are there any solutions to forward mic/webcam to TinyPilot?
Thanks!
Plane
- CCharles Hague @cghague2024-04-11 22:23:27.186Z
Hi, Plane Refection; thank you for your message, and my apologies for the delay in responding. We're still interested in two-way audio support, but unfortunately, nothing is available just yet. We announce all new features on our blog, and in our change log, so I'd recommend keeping watch on those to be the first to know if this feature is released!
- PPlane Reflection @PlaneReflection
Hi Charles,
It’s coming up to another year. Just checking in to see if there’s been any updates on this.
Thanks!
- CCharles Hague @cghague2025-03-19 01:43:56.047Z
Hi, Plane Reflection. Thanks for following up on this! We're still interested in adding this, and we've continued to look into it internally. Unfortunately, I can't confirm when or if we'll add this feature. I appreciate this isn't the answer you were hoping for, so I'll share your continued interest with the team.