How to disable camera & mic?

[Tenaja]

On my laptop, I leave the camera and mic disabled nearly 100% of the time. However, in this CV-19 era, we are doing a lot more video conferencing, so turning them on and off is getting tedius. I would like a small app pinned to my Taskbar to enable or disable the mic & camera, for a fast settings.

Does anybody know of a program to do that in code? Or perhaps, the code? When I google it, it just comes with with a million general "how-to" site with instructions using the control panels.

Thanks!

[Evil1]

Hi there, the following three links may help, talks about using devcon and/or Comateplus :-

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=47830&hilit=disabl ... dc7895e4ea
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... =5&t=55245
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scriptin ... e-webcams/

Might at least point you in the right direction.

[Tenaja]

Thanks! I'll check those out.

[NicTheQuick]

What do you mean with disabling? If it does not get used it is not turned on.