Why is Chrome suddenly required to view my new Pan v4 on my Windows PC browser?

[Crease]

Just lie…or tell your browser to lie. I don’t think it’s (entirely) about the codec.

Shortly after Cam Pan v4 launched, I was able to view its live stream in Web View in Microsoft Edge on both Linux and Windows^[1][2], but streaming in Edge stopped working some time after those initial tests. I’ve seen some Microsoft Edge updates download and install to my PC, and I thought those might resolve the issue, but apparently they haven’t, so today I wondered if there was an easy way to try telling Edge to send a different user agent string. Apparently there is:

1. Launch Microsoft Edge and open Wyze Web Portal. Log in as usual. See the “Web Connection Failed” message with the “Download Chrome” button for Cam Pan v4.
2. Navigate to the browser’s menu:  ➜ More tools ➜ Developer tools ➜ ➜ Network Conditions ➜ User agent.
3. Deselect User browser default.
4. Choose an option from the Custom… drop-down list. (I picked “Chrome — Windows”.)
5.  Refresh the Web page.

That’s all it took to enable streaming Cam Pan v4 for me in Microsoft Edge on Windows and Linux (also in Opera on Linux), so it looks like Web View may be just sniffing the user agent string and telling non-Chrome users that there’s a problem based on that alone instead of actually doing feature detection on the browser.

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