My intuition is that you should ditch this path and go with a webcam and a regular box. Given that some chrome boxes are $150. And a camera + light are another $50. You can get this done fast and cheap and open source for the most part.
The question is how much you want to fiddle. And it is a question of which of the 100+ video programs she wants to use.... On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 2:40 PM 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 > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [image: www.seattleangelconference.com] <http://www.seattleangelconference.com/> *JOHN SECHREST* *Founder, *Seattle Angel Conference TEL (541) 250-0844 EMAIL [email protected] Schedule A Meeting <https://sechrest.youcanbook.me/> http://seattleangelconference.com @sechrest _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
