Guac on Chromebook - No sound

[Antony Awaida <an...@apporto.com>]

Hi Everyone:

Getting ready for an important customer demo - need help.

Setup guac 0.9.13 WIndows 2016.

When we connect using a WIndows PC, or Mac OSX sound input and output work
fine.

When we use the same connection from a Chromebook or an iPad, no sound
input or output.

Questions:

- Has anyone been able to get sound to work on Chromebook/iPad?
- Any insights/pointers?

Thanks!

-- 
Antony Awaida
www.apporto.com

Re: Guac on Chromebook - No sound

[Antony Awaida <an...@apporto.com>]

Thanks Mike for the prompt response:

When I look at the Chrome console on the Chromebook, there is an
error: app.js?v=0.9.13-incubating:3 The AudioContext was not allowed to
start. It must be resume (or created) after a user gesture on the page.
https://goo.gl/7K7WLu

Apparently Google has introduced a new "feature" that prevents autostart of
sound - But it was rolled back in Chrome for a few months based on
pushback. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=835767. So
sound is working for now but we will need to develop a fix before the
re-introduction of the feature.

Anyway, hope this is of value to someone on the list.

Cheers,
Antony

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On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 8:06 PM, Mike Jumper <mi...@glyptodon.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Antony Awaida <an...@apporto.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone:
>>
>> Getting ready for an important customer demo - need help.
>>
>> Setup guac 0.9.13 WIndows 2016.
>>
>> When we connect using a WIndows PC, or Mac OSX sound input and output
>> work fine.
>>
>> When we use the same connection from a Chromebook or an iPad, no sound
>> input or output.
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> - Has anyone been able to get sound to work on Chromebook/iPad?
>>
>
> Chromebook should work fine. My daily machine has been a Chromebook /
> Chromebox for several years now, as I do all my work over guac. I can't
> speak to whether recent versions of iOS support audio (my test iPad is
> ancient), but caniuse shows that it should:
>
> https://caniuse.com/#feat=audio-api
>
> All Guacamole needs for audio support is the Web Audio API.
>
> - Mike
>
>


-- 
Antony Awaida
CEO
www.apporto.com

Re: Guac on Chromebook - No sound

[Mike Jumper <mi...@glyptodon.org>]

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Antony Awaida <an...@apporto.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone:
>
> Getting ready for an important customer demo - need help.
>
> Setup guac 0.9.13 WIndows 2016.
>
> When we connect using a WIndows PC, or Mac OSX sound input and output work
> fine.
>
> When we use the same connection from a Chromebook or an iPad, no sound
> input or output.
>
> Questions:
>
> - Has anyone been able to get sound to work on Chromebook/iPad?
>

Chromebook should work fine. My daily machine has been a Chromebook /
Chromebox for several years now, as I do all my work over guac. I can't
speak to whether recent versions of iOS support audio (my test iPad is
ancient), but caniuse shows that it should:

https://caniuse.com/#feat=audio-api

All Guacamole needs for audio support is the Web Audio API.

- Mike