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Re: using Webex from Stretch



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 <carlf@panix.com> 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 <carlf@panix.com>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 10:54 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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.

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