Zoom getting an upgrade

[Botspot]

I've been working on upgrading Zoom for a while now.

• It will fix pulseaudio problems:
  For years, Raspberry Pi OS has been notorious for glitching when pulseaudio is installed. Well, pulseaudio was necessary for Zoom to work. So, I made the install script install pulseaudio, and then disable it.
  Times have changed since then, and RPiOS has switched to pulseaudio! As soon as that happened, I removed the pulse-disabling code from the install script, but everyone who installed Zoom prior to that still has a broken Pulseaudio setup.
  So this new Zoom app version will undo those changes and fix everybody's system.
• Also, I'm switching Zoom to use box86-updater, instead of compiling box86. This saves a massive amount of time.
• As Zoom's official download website is back online thanks to this bug report, this script will download from there instead of from my zoom_686_mirror.

Slightly off-topic: There has been a super-popular feature request on Zoom's developer forum site for them to release ARM builds for the Raspberry Pi. It's seemed to me that Zoom Inc. has been ignoring it.
UNTIL I happened to mention it on the download-link-is-broken support thread. A Zoom staff member saw it and says "Thanks @Botspot! :) We will evaluate the demand here."
Cool. I may have just gotten the ball rolling for an official Zoom ARM build by writing that.

[Itai-Nelken]

@Botspot is it possible to make the install script try to download from the zoom website, and if it fails then download from your mirror?

[Botspot]

@Botspot is it possible to make the install script try to download from the zoom website, and if it fails then download from your mirror?

Good idea.

[Botspot]

It turns out the latest version of Zoom 9686 is quite unstable! Out of five tries, it crashed upon joining a meeting three of those tries.

And, it's crashing 100% of the time when you click on Share Screen.

Because of this, the Zoom app will continue using my zoom_686_mirror. Yes the client is outdated, but it actually works.

[Botspot]

New Zoom App version uploaded with commit 6026e18.

[fabianmendes]

I can't hear anything, should I install PulseAudio... right? The thing is that installation Bluetooth headphones is a madness

[Botspot]

I can't hear anything, should I install PulseAudio... right? The thing is that installation Bluetooth headphones is a madness

That probably wouldn't help. The Zoom app already installs pulseaudio already.

[fabianmendes]

Mhm, right. So what can I do or I suppose to do about the audio issue? Any help? ~V. Fabian T· Mendes C. El mié, 27 ene 2021 a las 12:44, Botspot (<notifications@github.com>) escribió:

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[Botspot]

So what can I do or I suppose to do about the audio issue? Any help?

No help. A lot pf people report the same thing, but nobody knows why. Audio problems started at about the same time Raspberry Pi OS switched to using pulseaudio.

[slaattnes]

I tried to install Zoom on a rpi4 running latest raspios and got this error message:

Setting up box86 (1:0.2.1+13cce1a4-1) ...
restarting systemd-binfmt...
Job for systemd-binfmt.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status systemd-binfmt.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
dpkg: error processing package box86 (--configure):
installed box86 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
box86
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Failed to install the box86 package

Failed to install Box86 with install-32 script!
Box86 installation failed!

[Botspot]

@slaattnes Thank you for the bug report. To properly document your issue, I've created a new github issue for this.

Link: #471

[spinalbassoon10]

Hello , i have a joyaccsess webcam and in zoom the microphone dont work. itested it in some other apps and there the microphone works what can i do?

[Itai-Nelken]

@spinalbassoon10 that's a known issue, I think ptitseb (the developer of box86) said he thinks that pulseaudio isn't wrapped correctly. maybe linux x64 zoom will run better with box64 when its released.