I spent a ton of time looking at Jitsi yesterday because I’m getting fed up with FaceTime. I really want a living room solution on my large flatscreen because we’ve been spending loads of time doing extended video chats (30+ minutes) with family members. Stuff like family trivia night, etc. The iPhone/iPad screens are too small and really its a pain to hold it in place. I’ve been using a tripod to help some with the holding but the fixed lens is really limiting without an extended HDMI cord. I’ve been connecting to the TV via HDMI but the sound/input is still via the device and the iPhone refuses to do landscape mode. Overall, it’s just suboptimal.
Jitsi is open source, has an option for me to host my own server (avid self-hoster for privacy), and appears to work on just about any platform. So I should be able to get most of the family to adopt it.
So now I suppose my question is how do I get Jitsi running on my TV? Or can someone offer some other solution that might fit my use case? I really would like to be able to just go to my TV, turn it on, and have instant ability to video chat from my living room to family members on nearly any device.
My first thought was to get it running on an Raspberry Pi but it seems that’s not really something that works from all of my searching. Does anyone have any experience there?
If that’s the case is there a cheap Android device that could achieve this with some sort of decent camera? Or am I stuck running an x86 system attached to my TV?
Does anyone else have Jitsi setup in a conference room like setting with a TV?
Primarily price and power consumption. Having the ability to run something like this on a cheap ARM single board computer would be significantly cheaper. Plus, I have a stack of Raspberry Pis in my office. Who knows how long it would take to order and receive a small form factor x86 system right now.
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I spent a ton of time looking at Jitsi yesterday because I’m getting fed up with FaceTime. I really want a living room solution on my large flatscreen because we’ve been spending loads of time doing extended video chats (30+ minutes) with family members. Stuff like family trivia night, etc. The iPhone/iPad screens are too small and really its a pain to hold it in place. I’ve been using a tripod to help some with the holding but the fixed lens is really limiting without an extended HDMI cord. I’ve been connecting to the TV via HDMI but the sound/input is still via the device and the iPhone refuses to do landscape mode. Overall, it’s just suboptimal.
Jitsi is open source, has an option for me to host my own server (avid self-hoster for privacy), and appears to work on just about any platform. So I should be able to get most of the family to adopt it.
So now I suppose my question is how do I get Jitsi running on my TV? Or can someone offer some other solution that might fit my use case? I really would like to be able to just go to my TV, turn it on, and have instant ability to video chat from my living room to family members on nearly any device.
My first thought was to get it running on an Raspberry Pi but it seems that’s not really something that works from all of my searching. Does anyone have any experience there?
If that’s the case is there a cheap Android device that could achieve this with some sort of decent camera? Or am I stuck running an x86 system attached to my TV?
Does anyone else have Jitsi setup in a conference room like setting with a TV?
I'm curious why you're opposed to this.
Primarily price and power consumption. Having the ability to run something like this on a cheap ARM single board computer would be significantly cheaper. Plus, I have a stack of Raspberry Pis in my office. Who knows how long it would take to order and receive a small form factor x86 system right now.