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Need a locked down way of browsing to a website which also allows the camera to be used.

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David Bennett

I have successfully configured and gotten the needed url to work in chrome using:

intent:

myurl.dev.odoo.com#Intent;scheme=https;package=com.android.chrome;end

and/or

browser://

myurl.dev.odoo.com

(also needed to define chrome as an allowed app with Launch://com.android.chrome)

BUT:

It does not work in SOTI browser as the link requires camera access and SOTI browser sends the allow camera message to the background. Using the above solutions, users have Chrome with full access to the internet, very much not wanted.

Is there anyway at all to get browser launched camera permission to work in SOTI browser? The solutions at the start were the work arounds that I found discussed in the forums.

Failing that, how to:

1) hide the chrome button in the SOTI Browser app allow list?

2) manage chrome to create an allow list?

SOTI browser camera access lockdown
a year ago
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ANSWERS
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Martin K.
a year ago

you can create a custom lockdown template and hide there some lockdown entries, so chrome is allowed but user is not able to start it directly.

Solution
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Wiktor Mlynski
a year ago

We're using Lockdown screen, with SOTI Surf for our web-based production system, on a tablets.
We have Camera added to a Lockdown screen, and Camera is allowed (enabled), in Feature Control.
If I remember well, that was enough for end user to use Camera, in Lockdown, while browsing our system on SOTI Surf.

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David Bennett
a year ago

Hello Wiktor, my issue is not with general camera access while in lockdown mode. SOTI browser pushes the camera permission prompt to the background and so websites have no access to the camera. Probably something that should be looked into by the devs as I have found complaints about this feature going back to 2019 in the forums.

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David Bennett
a year ago

self answering 2: I defined and assigned a new profile with the the following configured restrictions: Browser, Browser proxy and Web Filter. For Web Filter after defining the allowed websites add a line to block all (*) websites.

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ABMOD@SOTI
a year ago

Hi David Bennett,

Thanks for posting on SOTI Pulse, Thanks Martin K., and Wiktor Mlynski for responding to the post, your expertise and willingness to help are greatly appreciated!

We are glad that you got your answer.

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