Video Settings

Hangout API for Video

class hangout_api.settings.video.VideoDevice(name)

Class that represents video devise. More like marker than actual class.

>>> device_1 = VideoDevice('video 1')
>>> device_1.name
'video 1'
>>> device_1
<VideoDevice: 'video 1'>
>>> device_1 == VideoDevice('video 2')
False
>>> device_1 == VideoDevice('video 1')
True

class hangout_api.settings.video.VideoSettings(base)

current_device

Returns current device:

>>> hangout.video.current_device
<VideoDevice: 'USB2.0 PC CAMERA'>

device_class

alias of VideoDevice

get_devices(with_nodes=False)

Returns list of available video devices:

>>> hangout.video.get_devices()
[<VideoDevice: 'USB2.0 PC CAMERA'>, ...]

is_muted

Returns True if video is muted, otherwise returns True

>>> hangout.video.is_muted in (True, False)
True

mute()

Mute video device. Returns:

• True - Video went from un-muted to muted
• False - Video was already muted

>>> hangout.video.unmute()
True
>>> hangout.video.mute()
True
>>> hangout.video.mute()
False

set_device(device_name)

Set device by its name:

>>> hangout.video.get_devices()
[<VideoDevice: 'USB2.0 PC CAMERA'>, ...]
>>> hangout.video.set_device('HP Truevision HD')

unmute()

Un-mute video device. Returns:

• True - Video went from muted to un-muted
• False - Video was already un-muted

>>> hangout.video.mute()
True
>>> hangout.video.unmute()
True
>>> hangout.video.unmute()
False