<h2 dir="auto">Video Conference: allow setting hotkeys for "on" and "off" (rather than toggle) for mic mute and camera mute</h2>
<p dir="auto">My young kids are using Teams at school. They have to stay muted until asked to speak by the teacher. They are easily confused/distracted by having to look for mute/unmute in the Teams UX, esp. when a teacher asks them a difficult question.</p>
<p dir="auto">I use an external device that emulates keyboards to provide a physical button to mute/unmute. This helps but leaves the challenge of kids not knowing if they are in a muted or unmuted state. A more intuitive option would be to have separate "mute" and "unmute" buttons.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>PowerToys can enable this by allowing to define distinct "mute" and "unmute" hotkey combinations for mic and camera.</strong></p>
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<h1 dir="auto">Summary of the new feature/enhancement</h1>
<p dir="auto">This feature would prevent the OS from going to sleep with the options to set a timer for when it can go back to sleep. This functionality is provided by the following two sources for free; however, I choose not to use these since they are not open-source (or I couldn't find the source code). Also the caffeine software uses key strokes which is less than desirable than an API approach that amphetamine takes.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/" rel="nofollow">https://zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/</a><br>
<a href="https://www.d7xtech.com/free-software/amphetamine/" rel="nofollow">https://www.d7xtech.com/free-software/amphetamine/</a></p>
<h2 dir="auto">Basic implementation details</h2>
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<li>Right clicking on PowerToys system tray icon will display whether or not this feature is currently active</li>
<li>Right clicking on PowerToys system tray icon will have an option to allow someone to start/end this feature with a default setting</li>
<li>Right clicking on PowerToys system tray will also include options for this feature where you can quickly specify a time limit for this feature (e.g. Keep Awake for 5 min, 1 hour, Forever, etc)</li>
<li>PowerToys Run can activate/deactivate this new feature quickly</li>
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