Ability to make/receive audio-only calls without requiring video

[SRayen]

Hi,

I’m currently using react-sip to make and receive SIP calls. By default, it seems that video is always requested, which makes it mandatory to allow camera access even if I only want to handle audio calls.

I’d like to know:

Is there a way to configure react-sip to handle audio-only calls?

If not, would it be possible to add a feature or option to disable video entirely?

I could not find any information about this in the documentation.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[VictorD19]

Yes, this is possible. You can solve it by configuring the mergedSessionManagerOptions.

Just set the media property like this:

media: {
  constraints: {
    audio: true,
    video: false
  },
  remote: {
    audio: remoteAudioRef.current
  }
}

The remoteAudioRef must reference an HTML element, which needs to be instantiated on the frontend:

const remoteAudioRef = useRef<HTMLAudioElement | null>(null);

<audio ref={remoteAudioRef} autoPlay />

This way, the remote audio stream is properly attached to the element and played automatically on the client.