Multiple Studio Displays - one 2026 and one 2022 - how to choose camera

[zalusky]

I have searched around and can't get a straight answer. I had a dual display setup. One of the displays is a 2022 display and the other was an old 10 year old Dell display. I recently replaced the Dell display with a 2026 Studio Display. My Mac Studio M1 first connects to the 2026 studio display and then daisy chains to the 2022 display.

System preferences shows the 2022 as Display(1) and the 2026 Display(2). Safari seems to always select Display(1) for camera work.
I don't see a way to control this.

I don't see anything in Safari settings unless I am looking in the wrong place. When I do a video session I see a camera icon on both screens in the Safari menu bar but it says nothing making one of them the active camera.

Do I have to somehow make the 2026 monitor Display(1) - How would I do that? Swapping cables doesn't seem to work and the 2022 display does not seem to have a daisy chain option.

Help!

 

[Bigwaff]

and the 2022 display does not seem to have a daisy chain option.

That is correct.

Safari seems to always select Display(1) for camera work.

When I do a video session I see a camera icon on both screens in the Safari menu bar but it says nothing making one of them the active camera.

What feature of Safari uses cameras? What web site(s) are you trying to enable your cameras with?

 

[zalusky]

That is correct.


What feature of Safari uses cameras? What web site(s) are you trying to enable your cameras with?

This morning I was doing a video appointment with my doctor using Safari. The video does not jump to zoom or other such separate applications.

Yes I could do Chrome or use my iPad but I like Safari and also my dual monitor big screen setup.

 

[xraydoc]

I have searched around and can't get a straight answer. I had a dual display setup. One of the displays is a 2022 display and the other was an old 10 year old Dell display. I recently replaced the Dell display with a 2026 Studio Display. My Mac Studio M1 first connects to the 2026 studio display and then daisy chains to the 2022 display.

System preferences shows the 2022 as Display(1) and the 2026 Display(2). Safari seems to always select Display(1) for camera work.
I don't see a way to control this.

I don't see anything in Safari settings unless I am looking in the wrong place. When I do a video session I see a camera icon on both screens in the Safari menu bar but it says nothing making one of them the active camera.

Do I have to somehow make the 2026 monitor Display(1) - How would I do that? Swapping cables doesn't seem to work and the 2022 display does not seem to have a daisy chain option.

Help!

Usually the web app will have a camera selection option in there somewhere -- it's not in Safari itself; it'll be in the video conference web app settings on the website itself. If it doesn't, then shame on the developer. Otherwise, I'm not sure one can disable the camera easily.

 

[zalusky]

Usually the web app will have a camera selection option in there somewhere -- it's not in Safari itself; it'll be in the video conference web app settings on the website itself. If it doesn't, then shame on the developer. Otherwise, I'm not sure one can disable the camera easily.

The thing is I want the camera but I want to select which monitor the camera is active on. The menu icon for the camera I saw in Safari does not have an activate/disable/choose monitor just portrait/landscape/… type of things.

 

[veroguru]

The thing is I want the camera but I want to select which monitor the camera is active on. The menu icon for the camera I saw in Safari does not have an activate/disable/choose monitor just portrait/landscape/… type of things.

In Safari it will always use the camera on Display 1

 

[zalusky]

In Safari it will always use the camera on Display 1

There is my next question. How do I change the display numbers and make my new 2026 monitor display 1.

 

[veroguru]

There is my next question. How do I change the display numbers and make my new 2026 monitor display 1.

system settings -> displays -> arrange

 

[zalusky]

system settings -> displays -> arrange

Been there done that. That just moves them around - it does not change what is 1 and what is 2.

I want my new 2026 monitor on the right and the old 2022 monitor on the left.

 

[mystery hill]

System settings > Displays > Arrangement. Drag the small white menu bar from the Studio Display 2022 to the Studio Display 2026.

 

[zalusky]

Been there done that:

 

[mystery hill]

Safari does not seem to have an option to set the default camera.

Have you tried setting the Studio Display 2026 as the default camera in the FaceTime app or Photo Booth app, and disabling Automatic Camera Selection?

 

[zalusky]

Safari does not seem to have an option to set the default camera.

Have you tried setting the Studio Display 2026 as the default camera in the FaceTime app or Photo Booth app, and disabling Automatic Camera Selection?

As mentioned earlier this is about Safari and the camera for my friends Core Video sessions.

 

[mystery hill]

I could not find an option in Safari, that's why I asked if you had tried setting the default in one of the included Apple apps to see if that would make a difference. I have tried it now, and it does not.

 

[zalusky]

I could not find an option in Safari, that's why I asked if you had tried setting the default in one of the included Apple apps to see if that would make a difference. I have tried it now, and it does not.

I am thinking the problem is the web option provided by my medical group does not have a camera selection option and defaults incorrectly.

 

[veroguru]

Been there done that:
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So what are you actually saying with that screenshot, buddy? That the rearrangement doesnt' work and you can't drag them to change their order? If yes, then it sounds like a bug. Have you tried to connect the older one also directly to your computer?

 

[zalusky]

So what are you actually saying with that screenshot, buddy? That the rearrangement doesnt' work and you can't drag them to change their order? If yes, then it sounds like a bug. Have you tried to connect the older one also directly to your computer?

Did you read the whole thread? Somebody asked about my setup. The screen shot shows the setup but what I have learned is the application be it an app or or a web app is responsible for the monitor selection and apparently my particular medical group website does not have a monitor selection and simply goes to Studio Display(1) for the camera.

 

[veroguru]

Did you read the whole thread? Somebody asked about my setup. The screen shot shows the setup but what I have learned is the application be it an app or or a web app is responsible for the monitor selection and apparently my particular medical group website does not have a monitor selection and simply goes to Studio Display(1) for the camera.

No, did YOU read my question? Can you arrange the monitors by dragging them under your system settings or not? If not, have you tried connecting them both directly to your computer and then dragging them?

And perhaps most importantly, did YOU read the whole thread? Everybody knows that apps allow monitor selection. But that is irrelevant here as you're pondering about your medical group website. In Safari you cannot choose the display under any websites – including your particular medical group's website.

But I guess you must be trolling anyways, so have a nice day and good like with your medical group!

 

[zalusky]

No, did YOU read my question? Can you arrange the monitors by dragging them under your system settings or not? If not, have you tried connecting them both directly to your computer and then dragging them?

And perhaps most importantly, did YOU read the whole thread? Everybody knows that apps allow monitor selection. But that is irrelevant here as you're pondering about your medical group website. In Safari you cannot choose the display under any websites – including your particular medical group's website.

But I guess you must be trolling anyways, so have a nice day and good like with your medical group!

Not true. I went to another medical group website and I had a pick option for both monitor cameras. The pick was not in Safari menu but the in the html page itself. I could see the cameras light up as selected them. So the html/script code was able to determine my hw configuration and provide a pick option. The same thing with the Facebook web interface for video chat.

Here are some screen shots and I finally did find the option for my medical group to select the monitor buried in a settings screen:

 

[xraydoc]

I am thinking the problem is the web option provided by my medical group does not have a camera selection option and defaults incorrectly.

That's what I tried saying...

 

[xraydoc]

No, did YOU read my question? Can you arrange the monitors by dragging them under your system settings or not? If not, have you tried connecting them both directly to your computer and then dragging them?

And perhaps most importantly, did YOU read the whole thread? Everybody knows that apps allow monitor selection. But that is irrelevant here as you're pondering about your medical group website. In Safari you cannot choose the display under any websites – including your particular medical group's website.

But I guess you must be trolling anyways, so have a nice day and good like with your medical group!

What your suggesting will not work. The web app (the page OP is connecting to) does not have an option to select the camera -- it simply defaults to the first one presented by the operating system.

macOS assigns Studio Displays (and thus the cameras built-in to them) on its own at boot; there's no way to designate which one the OS sees first, not a way to reorder them. Rearranging the displays in the control panel as you suggested does not change which ASD camera is defaulted in the OS. And there's no way to disable a camera in one of the displays so the OS thinks there's only one camera connected.

Unfortunately for OP, the website he's connecting to is choosing the first camera in the list, which is the suboptimal one, and doesn't present him with any way to choose between more than one source like virtually every other app and website will.

Has nothing to do with which display is "primary" in the system settings. I currently have two Studio Displays connected to my Mac, plus an Obsbot Tiny 3 webcam. I'm able to choose which camera I use in most apps, but if the developer didn't put any method to choose, it would likely default to the wrong one -- and there's no function (at least accessible to the end-user) to tell macOS to ignore/disable the cameras in the Studio Displays. Requires physically unplugging them -- which of course prevents you from using them as actual displays.

It's a weird catch-22 of having the camera built-in to the display(s) but with no ability to turn it off at a system level.