Add Zoom to portal TV
Need Zoom for portal TV
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John Wilson commented
I have not tried this, but as you can connect a standard Portal to a TV with USB-C to HDMI, does that not provide zoom via portal on a big screen if you want it? Does not help that I bought a Portal TV like the rest of the contributors to this appeal, but I can't see why there would be a licence issue with zoom if it can already be done with the other hardware. You'd just be using the portal as a camera and speaker? Or am I missing something?
I use an old Mac Mini with my TV for zoom, is that not the same licence wise as having it work on the Portal TV? I pay for a zoom licence so find any limitation being offered by them to me using what I am paying for particularly frustrating. -
David Jupp commented
I think the reality is that they are not developing Zoom for Portal TV anymore. If they come out and say that then people will stop buying the Portal TV and it's clearly not selling as well as they hoped (see the price drops). Zoom have contracts with a lot of other conference platforms and allowing Zoom on a £120 device would undermine their own bottom line. Facebook clearly just want to keep delaying the announcement so people buy the Portal TV on the hope it's still coming. Otherwise why wouldn't they have just given an update by now? Disingenuous but sadly a bit obvious now.
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Anonymous commented
My sense is that it may not be a Facebook issue at all. It may be a Zoom dictate. Zoom sells cameras and big screen interfaces for the corporate market. What would happen to those sales if a sub-$200 device did all that their $1000 plus device does. I, too, bought Portal TV understanding that It supported Zoom. How naive I was. It’s unfortunate that Facebook can’t come to an agreement with Zoom. This would have been a “killer” device in our pandemic world. They are missing the boat.
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Anonymous commented
Purchased mine purely to use zoom. Could have returned when I realized it did not work, but had hope that it would have been sorted by now! Seems that was a mistake :(
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Tristan Smith commented
Call me frustrated. I too mistakenly thought Zoom would be available on all portal TV devices. Bought this specifically for Zoom and it is basically a paperweight.
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Derek Abrams commented
I have read/heard that Zoom will be coming to Amazon Alexa/FireTv -- so that may be part of the delay for Facebook Portal -- in that Amazon beat Facebook to the punch.
Or it could simply be that Facebook is not interested in promoting a video call platform they do not own.
UPDATED 3/22/2021 -- I researched FB's other devices, which do support Zoom, so why the Portal TV does not, I have no clue. As for supporting other platforms, they do support them via FB Workplace as well as you can find GotoMeeting in the Portal App Store. So maybe it is a Zoom thing?
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Anonymous commented
Please
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Anonymous commented
Bought this specially for Zoom Video Conference. Very disappointed!
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Steve Blackshaw commented
This is getting ridiculous. Over a year after launch and the promise of zoom is still false. Facebooks silence on this issue is both telling and derogatory. Never again will I buy hardware from this company. The lack of support and communication is disgusting.
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Stephanie Casertano commented
it's working now isn't it?
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Rhiannon commented
Hurry up and sort it!!
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Anonymous commented
I bought the Facebook portal after mistakenly reading that it can be used with zoom. Absolutely useless for any of my needs otherwise. Teams and Zoom are the only 2 things I use to make video calls. Really regret wasting all that money when a simple and cheaper web cam would have worked so much better.
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Simon Dunn commented
come on fb, whats the issue here, when its on all the other devices (which obviously use the exactly same underlying operating system) whats the hold back. Need some transparency or roadmap here.
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Sarah commented
Portal support have said they are still in conversation with zoom to ********* portal tv but no release date yet
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Lee commented
Why do they seem to be updating all the other portal devices and not TV portal? Come on FB it's the main bloody device!
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Russler commented
I desperately want it to be added. It’s the main reason I bought it
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Jon Baker commented
Where is Zoom for Portal TV? Come on guys. This just reeks of Facebook incompetence. I guess I will just Offer Up my Lortal TV as Firestick meets my needs. Geez
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Jim Christensen commented
I gave up on my portal TV because no one else had one, but when the promise of Zoom being added went public, I got excited again. It has been months and still no action - is this really that hard???????????
Time to get it done. -
P T commented
Why is this taking so long to roll out
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Mr Paul Sullivan commented
Definitely!!