Is there a way for the iOS app to continue functioning in the background with the device locked?
I’ve been dreaming of a scenario where iPhones, or really any mobile device, could be setup as a two-way wireless mic/monitor system.
The idea came up because of things moving to video conference solutions. Any time you have multiple people at one end of the camera your audio almost by necessity becomes some mash up of microphone and speakers. The half-duplex nature of acoustic echo cancelled audio in this setting drives me insane.
I’ve done wild setups of splitting ear buds to a bunch of people but the cables become a mess. It would be so nice for each person in the room to just plug their earbuds with mic into their mobile and then somehow point it at the device hosting the video conference.
I’ve experimented with OBS.ninja for this but it has the same limitation that mic input dies once the device screen is locked.
Yes, the iOS version does stay active in the background when connected to others. It should pretty much do what you want for this use case, but you will need headphones everywhere because this thing is focused on quality, and so there is no echo cancellation.
Thanks! I did not go as far as connecting it to another device. I just noticed the mic indicator disappeared when I locked the screen. I’ll be sure to experiment with a full setup later.
And yes, definitely everyone on earbuds. Software or even DSP echo cancellation drives me crazy and I’m trying to eliminate it from the equation as much as possible.
I just wanted to follow up that I had the chance to play with it and I apologize for jumping to conclusions about capability.
What work needs to be done to move the iOS app to the app store rather than beta? I'm not an iOS developer but if the issue is money I would like to help out!
I’ve been dreaming of a scenario where iPhones, or really any mobile device, could be setup as a two-way wireless mic/monitor system.
The idea came up because of things moving to video conference solutions. Any time you have multiple people at one end of the camera your audio almost by necessity becomes some mash up of microphone and speakers. The half-duplex nature of acoustic echo cancelled audio in this setting drives me insane.
I’ve done wild setups of splitting ear buds to a bunch of people but the cables become a mess. It would be so nice for each person in the room to just plug their earbuds with mic into their mobile and then somehow point it at the device hosting the video conference.
I’ve experimented with OBS.ninja for this but it has the same limitation that mic input dies once the device screen is locked.