Facetime camera deactivating mid-call

[Fisher85]

Hi guys, during a FaceTime call the camera will suddenly shut off with no warning, the call continues but as expected the other party loses sight of me.

I open up the terminal, and type in the command "sudo killall VDCAssistant" and that appears to reset and restart the camera. Its been a while since I've had any FT calls, but this problem was still happening on El-Capitan, now I'm running Sierra. Numerous updates have been run and installed through the App Store, but I'm a little saddened that this problem keeps happening.

Does anyone have a more permanent fix besides me continuously using the above command every time the camera shuts off?

Thanks,
Fisher

 

[chscag]

It doesn't sound like a hardware error. Does that happen with all callers on FaceTime or just certain ones? Also, you might want to try a SMC reset to see if that helps.