Take a photo feature not working

[bhavayAnand9]

Please describe the problem (or idea)

Take a Photo feature uses navigator.getUserMedia which has been deprecated on Insecure origins and as localhost is treated as a secure origin so we might not see this error on localhost server but on the website it's throwing an error.

we should start using the newer method
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevices/getUserMedia
but I don't know if that'll work on insecure origins or not?

and I think it'll be more helpful if we console log error object instead of error string here
https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/blob/main/src/ui/SetInputStep.js#L57

Please show us where to look

http://sequencer.publiclab.org...

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[gitmate]

GitMate.io thinks the contributors most likely able to help are @GitMate[bot], and @oorjitchowdhary.

Possibly related issues are #353 (Adding a feature that takes width and height in percentage values.), #494 (Add 'Take a photo' as another option for initial load image step), #512 (add "take a photo" as alternative to "Choose file" in initial load image step), #213 (Crop Module not working correctly), and #557 (GIF generation is not working correctly).

[bhavayAnand9]

@jywarren @tech4GT

[gitmate]

GitMate.io thinks the contributors most likely able to help are @GitMate[bot], and @oorjitchowdhary.

Possibly related issues are #353 (Adding a feature that takes width and height in percentage values.), #494 (Add 'Take a photo' as another option for initial load image step), #512 (add "take a photo" as alternative to "Choose file" in initial load image step), #213 (Crop Module not working correctly), and #557 (GIF generation is not working correctly).

[harshkhandeparkar]

I was facing the same problem too. @aashna27 ?

[aashna27]

I ll look into it and submit a pr soon 😊