On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:35:11 -0700
Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I bought a Raspberry PI 4 and a CSI-port camera for a standalone
> multi-application video teleconferencing system.
>
> The goal is a second standalone "appliance" that my MD wife can
> use for patient televisits while using her main (linux) computer
> screen to look at patient records, medical images, etc.
>
> For now, she also uses her main computer (running CentOS and
> Chromium) for Zoom, doxy.me, and other teleconferencing apps
> that her non-computer-geek patients want her to connect with.
> Some use an iPhone teleconferencing app that seems incompatible
> with non-Apple platforms (big surprise ... not!).
>
> A mess of incompatibilities and black-box-module security
> vulnerabilities. I do NOT want closed source application
> modules running on the same computer as her patient records.
>
> I had hoped the standalone RasPi could fix all this. Nope.
>
> I found RasPi user forums bemoaning the lack of Arm/Raspbian
> modules necessary to run the Zoom app native on the PasPi4.
> Only the Chrome/Chromium web interface works, with lousy video
> and audio. No complete and TESTED solutions mentioned on the
> forums, with the last despairing messages in late August.
> And Zoom is only the first of many teleconferencing apps
> that I hope to run eventually.
>
> I suppose I can add yet another ALIX X86 single board computer,
> and configure the RasPi and camera as a webcam connected to the
> ALIX's third gigabit ethernet port, but that sounds like "too
> many moving parts".
>
> So - should I hope for Raspberry Pi Foundation and the community
> to negotiate with and produce Pi modules for Zoom and other
> teleconferencing apps?
>
> Should I ditch the Pi and use an off-the-shelf Logictech webcam
> with another Alix?
>
> What will be the least trouble in the long term?
>
> Keith
>
Or Zoom could stop purposefully breaking federation with other XMPP
servers, allow anyone with an XMPP client and jingle support to
communicate instead of forcing everyone to use their trashy spyware
binary blobs.
The worst thing about all these proprietary IM walled gardens is that
they take from the free software community but they never give back. In
fact, they leave less than nothing. They actively harm it when they
refuse to be interoperable with the very technologies they bootstrapped
their company off, like ejabberd and prosody.
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