Feature Request - Remember Last Speaker setting

KVM
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Currently, speaker resets to off on every reload, unlike microphone which remembers its state.

Suggestion: Persist speaker setting like microphone.

Thanks!

2

It is restricted by the browser's security policy and cannot be automatically enabled; it must be manually enabled each time.

4

Thanks for the quick response.

You are right that modern browsers enforce strict autoplay policies and audio cannot start fully automatically without prior user permission.

That said, once a user grants autoplay permission for a specific site, for example, in Chrome via chrome://settings/content/sound the audio stream will start automatically on every subsequent page load or reload. No manual toggle is required. The JetKVM dev build already behaves this way for audio. ( GitHub - pennycoders/kvm at feat/audio-support )

Since microphone permissions already persist in this manner, could we apply the same approach to speaker audio?

Proposed feature approach:

  • Store the users last speaker preference in localStorage

  • On page load, if the speaker is enabled, attempt to start the audio track automatically

  • If autoplay is blocked, display a clear prompt with direct links to the browsers sound/autoplay settings so the user can enable it

Thoughts?