Virtual camera and microhones do not show up in sensors

[maxandersen]

as discussed in https://community.home-assistant.io/t/mac-sensors-for-network-ip-and-cameras/264152/4 it would be great if the active camera and microphone would support virtual cameras like ecamm live and OBS including virtual microphones like krisp.ai.

[maxandersen]

sorry - i opened it using the wrong template, should have had mac label not ios but can't change it now.

[zacwest]

Right now, I'm able to see virtual microphones like Krisp.ai, which uses an underlying microphone; both appear active to me. Snap Camera also produced similar results, where it was using another underlying camera which was picked up. Can you give me any more details about how to reproduce this issue?

[jturnbull]

I think this is the same issue that I have: I use Reincubate Camo on the Mac, which creates a virtual camera from an external iPhone.

This virtual camera, like OBSstudio, isn't detected by the Home Assistant app. The Camo documentation says that: "In order for a video conferencing app to support Camo, its developers need to add the com.apple.security.cs.disable-library-validation entitlement to their product."

(Edit for clarity: The virtual microphone from Camo, and snaplens et al, already works without this change. This is just for virtual cameras)

Is this a change that can be made to the Home Assistant Mac app? Thanks

[lidanh]

Hey, any update on this? I use Sony ImagingEdge webcam app, but can't see it in Home Assistant. Looks like it's related to this issue

[ClayBenson94]

Same here, but with https://mmhmm.app/

[zacwest]

As of macOS 12.3, third party apps can use a new feature in the OS to show up as virtual devices in sandboxed apps without an entitlement change. Apps will need to update themselves to use this new OS feature, and you'll need to use macOS 12.3 or newer.