crittermike / hand-me-down-for-google-meet

A browser extension which automatically lowers your hand in Google Meet when you start talking.

Hand-me-down for Google Meet

Automatically lower your hand in Google Meet when you start talking

Install

$ npm install

Development

npm run dev chrome
npm run dev firefox
npm run dev opera
npm run dev edge

Build

# Generate packages for all browser in one command:
npm run build-all

# Or, package them up one by one:
npm run build chrome
npm run build firefox
npm run build opera
npm run build edge

Environment

The build tool also defines a variable named process.env.NODE_ENV in your scripts.

hand-me-down-for-google-meet's Issues

Volume sensitivity control

I love it! Only problem for me is I have to sort of yell to get the volume watcher to hear me. The "problem" is in this line; ideally, I'd want to have some control over that value of 0.03.

I'm not sure of the canonical way to add user settings to a Chrome extension, though a really easy way would be to expose a function that allows for setting that value from the console.

A related problem is that I don't know what units that 0.03 is expressed in, or what its range is.

Thanks for creating this! It's a problem a lot of people have, that no one else has yet cared to fix!

Does not work reliably for subsequent hand-raises

Hi, me again! I can confirm that #1 is no longer a problem. However, now it seems that the very first time I raise my hand and then speak, my hand lowers automatically. Thereafter, it's very dodgy, enough that I can't really say when it will work and when it won't. Sorry that I can't be more specific, but if you have any ideas I'm happy to try out some experiments and report back.