On Monday, April 6, 2020 12:52 PM, I wrote: > My employer is now having lots of audio/video conferences, some of which I > should at least listen to. Unfortunately, they are doing the conferences > with Cisco Webex. Webex uses an app that's not available for Debian Linux.
On Monday, April 6, 2020 6:27 PM, Carl Fink <[email protected]> replied: > I attended a Webex meeting earlier today using this Debian Stable box. It > worked perfectly. It's hard to properly host a meeting or record it from > Linux, but audio and video work great. Just use their so-called "web app" > (which is really just a web site and lots of JavaScript). I did what I think you were suggesting and got partway there. What I did was to get Webex's add-on cisco_webex_extension.xpi and add it to Firefox. Today I was able in a sense to join a Webex conference: I was connected and could see the list of participants and some chat text. But I got no audio, and these messages: Can't Connect to Audio We're having a problem connecting to audio using your computer. Choose another audio connection option or try again. I was given two options. If I chose "Use computer for audio", I got the errors above again. If I chose "Call in", it just showed a phone number. The result was the same whether I allowed them to use my microphone or not. I don't know if video would have worked, as they were blocking it due to bandwidth limits. I seem to have gotten closer. Any ideas on how to get an audio connection? There will be two more conferences I can try tomorrow. > Wait. Why can't Steven use a cellular phone while sitting at his desktop? I can and did for a test. But I don't own (and don't want to own) a cellphone, so I borrowed one. Let's not start a long OT thread on why I don't want a cellphone. Thanks to everyone for the other suggestions as well, which I have not yet tried. ________________________________________ From: Carl Fink <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 10:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: using Webex from Stretch On 4/6/20 9:20 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 04:52:41PM +0000, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) > wrote: >> My employer is now having lots of audio/video conferences, some of >> which I >> should at least listen to. Unfortunately, they are doing the >> conferences >> with Cisco Webex. Webex uses an app that's not available for Debian >> Linux. > ... >> To avoid the phone charge, I can use a cellphone that has unlimited free >> minutes. But I'd rather sit at my desktop. > > If all else fails, there are Bluetooth devices which act as a headset > to a cellular phone, providing analogue audio output (balanced and > unbalanced) which you can feed to the computer, either directly, or > through a USB interface box; see jkaudio.com. Of course, the computer > can record the conference, Audacity being a dead-simple approach. Wait. Why can't Steven use a cellular phone while sitting at his desktop? Although, again, Webex's web interface works great in Firefox on Stable. -- Carl Fink [email protected] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations!
