[BUG] - Camera will not launch on Librem5

[wimdows]

On the Librem5 the app works nicely, except for the camera launch button.
After hitting the camera launch button there is an error message: "Failed to start the pipeline. Element failed to change its state."

Since the camera launch function works well in another 2fa app I used before, I assume the problem lies with Clockode, not with PureOS.

[mariinkys]

Hi, that message appears when gstreamer can't find a webcam, I was planning on switching to https://github.com/l1npengtul/nokhwa instead of using gstreamer so this will probably get fixed when I do that.

Hopefully I'll have time to look at this soon, right now I'm on my last 3 weeks of university, searching for a job... So I've been quite busy ^^

[wimdows]

Thanks for picking this up. Take your time. I already added the 2fa's manually, so there is no urgent need for a fix. But I like the look and feel of Clockode, so it would be nice to see it working in the future.

[wimdows]

Good luck with finishing university, and the job hunt!

[mariinkys]

Hi, I'll be publishing an update today that tries to fix the issue, In the end I can't switch to https://github.com/l1npengtul/nokhwa because it doesn't work inside Flatpak sandboxing so I'm still using gstreamer, I've just tweaked a few parameters.

If after updating it still doesn't work could you please tell me if https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.belmoussaoui.Authenticator works well for you?

Note for me: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapshot/-/tree/main/aperture?ref_type=heads is the library used by Authenticator to handle the camera and qr code scanning which also uses gstreamer and pipewire.