Hello Everyone, Our web-app has a feature of taking a picture using a web-cam for identity verification. Currently, we don't have an option to upload a file. I am trying to automate this feature using Cypress but facing this issue. Issue: The app throws a message saying "Couldn't access camera. Please allow access to your device's camera" Troubleshooting: I've tried the below options to resolve this issue but none of them seem to be working 1. Based on the Cypress documentation , a default set of chrome switches are being passed before the browser is launched, among them we have '--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream' and '--use-fake-device-for-media-stream**' which would fake the UI/Device. I've filtered them in the config file. launchOptions.args = launchOptions.args.filter((arg) => { return arg !== "--use-fake-device-for-media-stream" && arg !== "--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream" }) 2. Also, the browser does not throw a prompt asking for camera permissions. In the cypress documentation it specifically says a switch has been added that would 'Disables prompts requesting permission to use devices like cameras or mics'. On researching, found that the corresponding switch for this is '--use-fake-device-for-media-stream' 3. Tried using an open-source library (https://github.com/kamranayub/cypress-browser-permissions) for setting the camera permissions. 4. I've tried the same feature in Webdriver using the same Chrome version (v109) and it does prompt for camera permissions. Data Cypress version: 10.3.0 Chrome version: 109 I cannot share the source-code. Any suggestions are appreciated.

I can confirm that chrome supports such a scenario https://github.com/stesee/BonReader/blob/main/playwright.config.ts#L62 . Try to add --use-file-for-fake-video-capture . Be warned Chrome is picky on the accepted fake-video codec.... AFAIK it should accept mjepg.