Browser not requesting camera access

[adarshkush13]

We followed the below installation steps as given in readme file on our ubuntu system version 20.04

• Install Nodejs binaries on Linux

• Install dependencies
  sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libjpeg8-dev libpango1.0-dev libgif-dev build-essential g++

• Clone github project
  mkdir ~/spectrum
  cd ~/spectrum
  git clone https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js.git

• Install npm packages globally
  npm install -g http-server
  npm install -g bower

• Install npm packages locally
  npm install
  grunt build

We tried to run this on our system
https://publiclab.github.io/spectral-workbench.js/examples/capture/
as mentioned in readme file

Our browser was not requesting access to camera when we started the server
http://(IP ADDRESS):8080/examples/capture/

Please tell us how to fix this issue

we are using chrome browser version 90 .

Note: When we open official site https://spectralworkbench.org/ and try to capture spectra camera works.

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[waridrox]

Hi @adarshkush13, thanks a lot for reporting that 💯! The camera feed unfortunately does not work with the URLs of the form http://IP address:8080/examples/capture.

The following URLs seem to be working fine though:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/examples/capture/

http://localhost:8080/examples/capture/