Could a WebCam be used with Guacamole?

[bmullan <bm...@gmail.com>]

Just curious if anyone has used a WebCam with Guacamole?

If so, can you point me to any information that talks about how/what
to implement/configure?

I run Guacamole on Ubuntu 18.04 connecting to LXD container (re my desktop
servers).  

All LXD containers are ubuntu 18.04 and run XRDP so the connection is RDP.

Desktop in the containers can be ubuntu Mate/xfce/budgie etc

All that works fine but I'd like to see if I can add video conferencing into
it.

There are alot of good possibilities/options:

Apache OpenMeetings <http://openmeetings.apache.org/>  

Jitsi <https://jitsi.org/>  

BigBlueButton - BBB <https://bigbluebutton.org/>  

If it hasn't been done before would any of the 3 above project be capable of
integration with a Guacamole session?

thanks for any info!

Brian Mullan



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Re: Could a WebCam be used with Guacamole?

[brian mullan <bm...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Nick !


On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 1:13 PM Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 9:02 AM bmullan <bm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just curious if anyone has used a WebCam with Guacamole?
>>
>> If so, can you point me to any information that talks about how/what
>> to implement/configure?
>>
>>
> The underlying protocol will support it without a problem - it's
> essentially just adding the channel and allowing it to be sent back to the
> remote system, assuming the protocol (RDP, SSH, etc.) support it.  It's a
> matter of implementing client-side support for picking up the webcam and
> sending the images back over Guacamole, and then guacd support for
> processing that channel and translating it to the protocol used to talk to
> the server.
>
> On a related topic, I had entered a JIRA issue a couple of years ago for
> adding WebUSB support to Guacamole.  No work has been done on it, yet, but
> it would allow for more arbitrary forwarding of supported USB devices to
> the back-end remote protocol.
>
> -Nick
>

Re: Could a WebCam be used with Guacamole?

[Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 9:02 AM bmullan <bm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just curious if anyone has used a WebCam with Guacamole?
>
> If so, can you point me to any information that talks about how/what
> to implement/configure?
>
>
The underlying protocol will support it without a problem - it's
essentially just adding the channel and allowing it to be sent back to the
remote system, assuming the protocol (RDP, SSH, etc.) support it.  It's a
matter of implementing client-side support for picking up the webcam and
sending the images back over Guacamole, and then guacd support for
processing that channel and translating it to the protocol used to talk to
the server.

On a related topic, I had entered a JIRA issue a couple of years ago for
adding WebUSB support to Guacamole.  No work has been done on it, yet, but
it would allow for more arbitrary forwarding of supported USB devices to
the back-end remote protocol.

-Nick