# Granular permissions for cameras and screen sharing
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/granular-permissions-for-cameras-and-screen-sharing/411477
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** voice
**Created:** [September 2, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granular-permissions-for-cameras-and-screen-sharing/411477 "2026-09-02T12:31:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Luna\_Mora](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Luna_Mora)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granular-permissions-for-cameras-and-screen-sharing/411477/1 "2026-09-02T12:31:05Z")
Throwing this out there for roadmap consideration, but the permission for cameras and screen sharing should be a.) separated and b.) permissions based, rather than a toggle.
Our current discord community is locked down where people can use voice and camera, but screen sharing they have to be given a specific role for. Since a moderator might not be present in the voice call to monitor what is being shared. (Quite memorably, our streaming permission was messed up at one point and I caught a user doing something _weird_ and they ended up getting themselves kicked from the server over it.)
The more granular the control over who can do what is, the better. ✨
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granular-permissions-for-cameras-and-screen-sharing/411477/2 "2026-09-02T12:48:28Z")
So you want both video and screensharing to be site settings that are group based, right?
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### Author:  [@Luna\_Mora](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Luna_Mora)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granular-permissions-for-cameras-and-screen-sharing/411477/3 "2026-09-02T14:15:33Z")
Yes exactly!! Just like how the ability to access voice, create rooms and have access to direct calls are already group based. Having that functionality extended to camera and screen sharing (preferably separately, unless camera and screen sharing are intrinsically linked) rather than a toggle checkbox, all or nothing, on or off sort of thing.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2026, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/granular-permissions-for-cameras-and-screen-sharing/411477/4 "2026-09-04T18:14:46Z")
I have a PR ready for it
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> Previously, camera video and screen sharing shared a single site-wide \`voice\_vid…eo\_enabled\` boolean, so a site could only enable or disable both for everybody at once.
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> This change replaces it with \`voice\_video\_allowed\_groups\` and \`voice\_screen\_share\_allowed\_groups\` (empty list = off), resolving each capability per user against the room's own \`video\_enabled\` flag and their speaking rights, and enforcing it at the participant state endpoint and in LiveKit's per-source publish grants.