Microsoft Teams on OpenBSD

Use Microsoft Teams with microphone & webcam on OpenBSD.

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2024-03-04


Using Microsoft Teams on OpenBSD

It is possible to use Microsoft Teams on OpenBSD.

Installing Chromium

Microsoft Teams is primarily developed for Edge, so it's easier to make it work in Chromium.

  doas pkg_add chromium

Enabling audio & video recording

The following commands enable audio and video recording in OpenBSD. It's needed to use the microphone and the webcam, respectively. Execute these commands with the value 0 instead of 1 to disable them again.

  doas sysctl kern.audio.record=1
  doas sysctl kern.video.record=1

It's recommended to enable recording only when needed, and disable it again when finished. But it's possible to keep it enabled by adding the following lines to the file /etc/sysctl.conf:

kern.audio.record=1
kern.video.record=1

Using Teams

Teams is accessible from https://teams.microsoft.com.

It is a Progressive Web App (PWA), so it can be installed from Chromium's menu and launched like any application.