Skype doesn't pick up camera and audio by default

[SISheogorath]

I have no idea why this happens the way it happens but I can reproduce it on my notebook every time and would love to help debugging.

With the current Skype version, when I start the client using flatpak from the Gnome desktop or flatpak run com.skype.Client, it doesn't neither pick up my camera nor my microphone. Giving me a quite useless setup.

When I was about to debug it, I opened a bash using flatpak run --command=/bin/bash com.skype.Client and started skype using this shell within the flatpak using skype as command. Suddenly it picks up all devices, camera works and the microphone as well. 😅

I'm very interested in ideas how to debug this and fix it in a long term perspective.

PS: I had another notebook where things worked flawless for months 🤡

[EliaGeretto]

I had a similar problem. Skype was not picking up my microphone and my webcam. I was able to fix my issue today raising the fs.inotify.max_user_watches, which apparently is needed for Skype to detect those devices. Maybe that is the case for you as well. I did it from the /etc/sysctl.conf file.