[Solved] How do I give microphone permission to Desktop App (Linux, XFCE, USB mic)?

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Okay that’s the problem we are having then. I’ve seen this error before and likely some issue between the system and electron (see [Bug]: Could not start audio source error on mediaDevices.getUserMedia · Issue #32299 · electron/electron · GitHub for an example).

What I’d like to understand is whether it’s just the default device the problem or something else. To test this we could do something like this:

  1. Fetch the devices like we did before:
await navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices();
  1. Copy the deviceId of the microphone you expect to use and run:
await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({audio: {deviceId: {exact: '2b4966ead820e4070ce8b67ca5347520604e170d0aba45ef113882378338783b'}}});

Change the id with whatever you get at step 1. And see if the error is gone now.