Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Access to test audio and video

From: Michael Richardson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:09:41 -0400

Bob Hinden <[email-masked]> wrote:
    >> On Jul 31, 2020, at 10:37 AM, Bob Hinden <[email-masked]> wrote:
    >>>> Other conferencing solutions allow selection of audio and video devices (and testing of them) before joining the active session.  Meetecho currently only allows this when the session starts.
    >>
    >> Worse, as a participant, you don’t know if your audio is working until
    >> you’ve been granted permission to speak. This is really bad, and has
    >> prevented me from speaking at the mic several times.

    > Good point, it would also be helpful if one could test their audio (and
    > video?) to the Meetecho server without having an active session going
    > on.

good ol' Skype got this right with it's test call.