Error while setting default media state when clicking on toggle to turn off camera and microphone by default when joining a call

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Steps to reproduce

1. Install latest Nextcloud Talk Desktop app (v1.0.0 - Talk v20.1.0) on MacOS 18.1 (Apple Silicon)
2. Open app then Settings
3. Toggle on option to "Turn off camera and microphone by default when joining a call"

Expected behaviour

Tuggle should go from off position to on position

Actual behaviour

Error popup saying: "Error while setting default media state"

Diagnosis and logs

Diagnosis report

Diagnosis report

Nextcloud Talk Desktop
Version	v1.0.0
Built-in Talk version	v20.1.0
Operating system	Darwin 24.1.0 (Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:03:11 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020)
Executable Path	/Applications/Nextcloud Talk.app/Contents/MacOS/Nextcloud Talk
Connected to	-
Nextcloud server version	30.0.1 RC1
Nextcloud Talk version	20.0.2
notifications app enabled	✅ yes
notify_push app enabled	✅ yes

Application config

{
  "theme": "default",
  "systemTitleBar": false,
  "monochromeTrayIcon": false,
  "zoomFactor": 1,
  "playSoundChat": "respect-dnd",
  "playSoundCall": "respect-dnd",
  "enableCallbox": "respect-dnd"
}

Client logs

Press Ctrl+Shift+I (Cmd+Option+C on macOS) or use the context menu to open the developer tools, then go to the Console tab.

server responded with a status of 400 ()
calls_start_without_media:1

   Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 ()

index.js:2 Storing device selection in the browser storage: videoInputId null
calls_start_without_media:1

   Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 ()

2index.js:2 Conversations were saved to BrowserStorage. Estimated object size: 17.45 kB
_fc0b725b-d896-48a7-ab5d-ac3022e0f873:1

   Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()

index.js:2 Conversations were saved to BrowserStorag

Insert error logs here.

[nickvergessen]

It should work after updating the Nextcloud Talk server so to 20.1
Seems we missed to wrap the toggle with a feature flag

[nickvergessen]

@DorraJaouad can you wrap the settings option with a check if the config => call => start-without-media (local) capability is there?

[Antreesy]

To follow up on that: we discussed in the office that features a-like this one (pure frontend, server is only needed for cross-device support) e.g.:

• call without media
• blur background
• compact conversations list

can be supported with Desktop client with old servers, but keep it in browser storage