I am building an streaming app with flutter and webrtc whereby I wish to only receive incoming video data and do not want anything to do with the local media streams (on my iOS device).

I wish to bypass asking the user for access to their microphone in order to establish a connection with webrtc – where the iOS device is the answer and receives an offer from my peer via my signalling server.

Right now it works if I disable the phones’ video but when I disable the audio stream it results in a black screen in the RTCVideoView.

` final Map<String, dynamic> mediaConstraints = {
‘audio’: true,
‘video’: false
};

localStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(mediaConstraints);`

This results in a connection, but when I do

` final Map<String, dynamic> mediaConstraints = {
‘audio’: false,
‘video’: false
};

localStream = await navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(mediaConstraints);`

I get logs that the connection is made but no media is shown to the screen.

I want to bypass this such that I don’t have to ask the user for access to their microphone for this to work as I have no need for their data, nor do I want to ask them for it because it just seems a bit fishy asking for access to their hardware for no reason.

Right now I have tried

• adding transceivers to set the tracks to receive only
• add a dummy local stream
• throwing my laptop out the window

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
J

Right now I have tried

• adding transceivers to set the tracks to receive only
• add a dummy local stream
• throwing my laptop out the window

Right now it works if I disable the phones’ video but when I disable the audio stream it results in a black screen in the RTCVideoView. Ideally I want the set up to work without being concerned with the local device media.