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craigmcrae
Jul 16, 2020Copper Contributor
Mac Desktop Client not working with External Webcams
The desktop mac client is no longer reading other webcams other than the default. The web client is still reading my other webcam. After restarting twice and troubleshooting, I am unable to determine...
- Apr 12, 2021
ajantonioli Interestingly, I am now able to use external webcams using the same version you mention whereas on the previous versions going back to last July I was unable to. I don't know if enabling "Developer Preview" (which I have enabled) does anything or not.
craigmcrae
Jul 23, 2020Copper Contributor
I reverted to an older version of Teams (one linked from the website) and it worked again! Then during the day an auto update came through and took the functionality away again. Would love for this to get fixed in whichever version keeps getting pushed to me.
- eRayHarrisonJul 23, 2020Brass Contributor
craigmcrae I had to get fairly aggressive on the Teams updater daemon (Mac) after sudo
chflags schg /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.teams.TeamsUpdaterDaemon.plist
Note that this can only be undone (noschg) in Safe mode - but no other way seemed to work (it's the overwriting of this file that allows the update, it seems).
Details here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031017061722471
Yes, let's hope that the Teams folks fix this bug. I did file a bug report: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/40961347-latest-teams-update-breaks-virtual-cameras-micro