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Camera showing Black Screen only when using Teams app, works with Web version
- Jan 30, 2021
I have been having this issue as well and have found a hacky solution. It seems that when you initiate the camera in Zoom, it stops it from working in Teams. The only way to get it working again in Teams is:
1) Reboot into Mac
2) Download/Open Teams app on Mac
3) Initiate camera (either start a video call or test camera in Teams > Settings > Devices)
4) Reboot into Windows and the camera on Teams should be working again.
HOWEVER as soon as you start the camera on Zoom again (also seems to happen with Google Meet), it will stop working on Teams and you will have to repeat the process above.
It seems using the camera on Zoom/Google Meet causes the camera to become incompatible with Teams (and also Skype). Hopefully an actual fix to this is coming soon
I did an update of MacOS, then created the USB driver set. After running the bootcamp repair in Windows, the issue disappeared. I'm not sure whether this was caused by the OS update or the repair of bootcamp. Since installing Windows, I had never booted MacOS, so it is unlikely that the cause of the issue was in MacOS.
Thank Jan Driesen I'm glad you got it working in the end for you. I did notice that after running a Bootcamp repair in Windows via the Mac OS made USB Drivers that the Camera did work the first time I did this. The client then obviously rebooted the machine the next day and it was broken again, running the Repair didn't bring the Camera back and hasn't. All out of ideas, clients using Web Teams for now (hating it) but no other choice.
- Sh3rl0ck3000Jan 27, 2021Copper Contributor
Hey guys,
is there any solution yet? I've a user experiencing the same issue... Event log doesn't report any errors... already reset the camera permissions but no avail... At the OS level all "seems" fine (Camera led lit up, in setting its visible that the camera is being used,...)
Any fresh ideas?
- Jan DriesenJan 27, 2021Copper Contributor
Sh3rl0ck3000. I got this fixed the way you may find above.
But today this happened to me again. Same issue, only in Microsoft Teams. Only this time running the repair stick doesn't help... I'll try to run some reinstalls and updates along the way to see if that fixes it. I'll report in here if it does.