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Allow Access to Webcam for Browsers to Clock in/out of Humanity

Allow access to your webcam for Google Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox browsers to Clock in/out of Humanity

Yasir Ehsan avatar
Written by Yasir Ehsan
Updated over a week ago

Objective

The objective of this tutorial is to help you understand how you can allow access to your webcam in your browsers while clocking in with Humanity.

Overview

Access from your: Computer
Applies to: Managers, Supervisors, Schedulers, and Employees

Access to your webcam can be allowed by changing the settings of the browser to Clock in/out of Humanity.

Things to know before you begin:

  1. Time Clock’ module must be enabled from the ‘Settings’ module.

  2. ‘Employees must use a webcam when they clock in & out’, must be enabled by the manager.

  3. You must have a webcam on your device.

The scenario outlined in this tutorial consists of the following building blocks:

  1. Allowing webcam access on Google Chrome

  2. Allowing webcam access on Opera

  3. Allowing webcam access on Mozilla Firefox

Allowing webcam access on Google Chrome

Step 1: Click three dots that are on the top-right corner of the Chrome window, as shown in Image 1.

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 Step 2: Click the Settings tab from the drop-down, as shown in Image 2.

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Step 3: Scroll down and click the Advanced tab, as shown in Image 3.

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 Step 4: Scroll down and click the Site Settings tab, as shown in Image 4.

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Step 5: Click the Camera tab, as shown in image 5.

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Step 6: Enable the Toggle next to Blocked, as shown in Image 6.


If you want to give access to the webcam, it is mandatory for it to be enabled as Ask before accessing (recommended).

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Allowing webcam access on Opera

Step 1: Click three dots that are on the top-right corner of the Opera window, as shown in Image 7.

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Step 2: Click Go to browser settings tab in the drop-down menu, as shown in Image 8.

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Step 3: Scroll down and click the Advanced tab, as shown in Image 9.

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Step 4: Click the Content Settings tab, as shown in Image 10.

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Step 5: Click the Camera tab, as shown in Image 11.

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Step 6: Enable or Disable the toggle next to Ask before accessing(recommended) according to your business requirements, as shown in Image 12.

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Allowing webcam access on Mozilla Firefox

Step 1: Click three dots that are either below the screen or at the top-right corner depending on the device being used as shown in Image 13.


Once you click on the dots, it will open the settings directly.

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Step 2:  Click Content Blocking under the Settings drop-down, as shown in Image 14.

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Step 3: Scroll down to update the Settings under the Permissions tab, as shown in Image 15.

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Step 5: Click Status drop-down and select Allow to give access to the sites requesting camera permission, as shown in Image 16.

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Step 6: Click Save Changes tab to apply the modifications, as shown in Image 17.

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If you have any further queries, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at support@humanity.com.

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