Bottom line is: setting it up can be painful, but it does work (watch the video for proof), and it's totally worth it.
What did fail when you tried Jitsi? did you do anything close to what I've listed above? BTW, I installed mine not from the website, but from a .deb package provided by Magic Banana here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/jitsixmpp#comment-78018
