Fixing Zoom white balance in Linux

August 19, 2020•73 words

I guess one of the nice benefits of tying my note taking app to my blog is that it makes publishing my little computer snippets much more interesting.

Zoom has a weird thing that happens to me in Linux where the white balance of my camera turns purple. I can usually force it back to default by running these commands in a terminal:

   # v4l2-ctl -c white_balance_temperature_auto=0
   # v4l2-ctl -c white_balance_temperature=4000

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