How do I effectively get Teams to open a meeting with the Correct Video Device?

Teams appears to be willing to grab just about any USB UVC device it sees as a camera and picks whatever is first in its list.

In this case it is starting meeting presenting an HDMI capture device rather than the Camera.
I have 3 "cameras" (USB UVC) devices in a meeting room

• A Logitech Screen Share HDMI Capture Device ( USB UVC ) used to integrate a secondary video feed




• A Logitech Rally Camera



• A second HDMI Capture Device used for conference table video sharing.

Windows has decided that the first "Camera" to list is the Logitech Screen Share

When I join a MS Teams as anonymous Teams connects to the "Logitech Screen Share" and starts sharing an incorrect video stream.

not the "Rally Camera".

a) MS Teams appears to provide no settings for "Default" devices if you are not logged in.
b) Window 10 provides no method of setting a "Default" Camera.
c) Disabling these devices in Windows is NOT an option as they are required to share laptops and integrated devices.

I have tried disabling and re-enabling the device in hopes that I could change the "order" of the devices in Windows 10.

This does not work.

How do I get MS Teams to use the Rally Camera at the start of the meeting?

Please do not suggest the untrained end user who has just walked into the meeting room and started the meeting recognize that the settings are wrong and manually change the Teams Device Camera settings by digging through the menus in Teams. We can't count on them knowing what is wrong nor can we count on them knowing how to configure the teams application.

Thanks for any help. This is a real problem. It seems like Microsoft has missed the Use Case flow where there is more than 1 camera to manage almost entirely both in Windows 10 and in MS Teams.

Via the companion device feature, I have been using my phone as a webcam. I do this by joining a teams call on my desktop with audio but no video, then joining the same call using my device with video but no audio and speaker switched off. This works well but it is annoying to set up.

It would be much more convenient if you could set up your phone as a webcam before joining the call, so that once you join on your desktop it would automatically join on your device with video on and audio/speaker off (or whatever other settings you want). It seems to me this would be relatively easy to do given the existing functionality.

This has to be the worst thing about web conferencing & calling apps.

Whenever we start a meeting people are fumbling around switching from headset to built-in Mic or camera or speakers or then to the one on the headphone jack etc. and it wastes lots of time for lots of people.

Why are these settings hidden under multiple clicks?

When you join a meeting the options for which devices you are using need to be in your face, front and centre, with quick, easy one click choices to switch to another device or 'environment'.

Having environment based quick selections would be good for this. E.g. Docked = (speakers in my surface, external web camera and use the mic built-in to the web cam), Headset=(built in camera facing me, Mic and speakers both in the headset). Then it can be a one click choice as I start the meeting or answer the call.

There are too many clicks involved in trying to find these settings and people get lost.

It's not just Teams. Zoom, Hangouts, Discord are all just as bad. And we have to use all of these through out the day. Fix it now and Teams will get an edge on competitors.