[FEAT] Allow mute audio by default

[alex3025]

Is this a new feature request?

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Wanted change

As now it seems that a config option that allow the audio to be disabled by default (and allowing the user to enabling it with the button in the toolbar when needed) doesn't exists nor the current audio state isn't persisted through browser reloads.

Reason for change

Most of the times I don't need audio in my sessions except a few cases. When I was using Kasm, I enabled/disabled the audio passthrough as needed.

Proposed code change

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[thelamer]

I'm on the fence about this one, while we now let the user customize ever facet of the dashboard and settings the core video and audio pipeline are pretty hard wired.
The reason this was left out of the settings is because it is not a setting the expectation as the stack exists now is the mute and unmute is a session based thing it has no sticky setting, just closing the window and relanding will activate audio again unless it is specifically disabled server side. (think like muting a tab)

The general summary is this simply was not considered, delivering video and audio is the core function.

It would need heavy testing with client and server changes to facilitate the new setting along with doc updates.

The question is do people really need this and is it a core need?

What is the usecase here outside of having a flag to set why would you want to be muted by default ?

[alex3025]

Thanks for the reply!

Maybe then just save the state to the browser's local storage? Instead of forcing a default state from the server. That would be great as well for me.

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