04 Mar 2024

Microsoft Teams on OpenBSD

Use Microsoft Teams with microphone & webcam on OpenBSD.

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04 Mar 2024

Using Microsoft Teams on OpenBSD

It is possible to use Microsoft Teams on OpenBSD.

Tested on OpenBSD 7.4.

Installing Chromium

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

# 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.

# sysctl kern.audio.record=1
# 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