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Re: Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

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Post by GordonS »

potatopolis wrote: post #58
GordonS wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never come across Jitsi before - wow, this is fully featured, with screen sharing that works , and even video background blurring! And all for free, amazing! My only question is how the company behind Jitsi plans to monetise things. This wasn't answered in their FAQ - anyone here know?

From jitsi.org/user-faq/ > We are fortunate that our friends at 8×8 fully fund the project. 8×8 uses Jitsi technology in products like Virtual Office. The open source community and meet.jit.si service help to make Jitsi better, which makes 8×8 products better, which helps to further fund Jitsi. This virtuous cycle has worked well in the past and should continue to for many years to come.

Gah, I'd read the FAQ but somehow missed that, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

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Post by michaelmior »

ivanhoe wrote: post #54
michaelmior wrote: post #45

In person, I have an open door policy with my students. If my door is open, it generally means I'm available to talk with them. Since all of our instruction has moved online, I'm adopting a virtual open door policy. I have a camera pointed at my door. If that door is open, students know I am there and if they announce themselves, I "let them in" by turning the camera around. When I'm in a meeting, I mute the audio an…

Frankly I'd be really worried about forgetting to mute the stream.

I am concerned about that as well. I may switch to mute by default as soon as I connect and whenever I'm done talking to someone. I've been using Google Meet and I wish there was a way to persistently show the muted state. Fortunately, there's a ding when someone enters so even if I've forgotten to mute, I'll likely notice if someone starts listening.

Re: Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

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Post by gregsadetsky »

I'm not affiliated, just someone who recently started using it daily, but another "always on" video conference alternative is https://tandem.chat/ . It integrates well with Slack, and keeping it open while working with colleagues feels very natural.

It's the closest I've seen to recreate a coworking environment -- we even have a #lunch channel where we "eat together" at noon (that was a bit depressing to write... we're doing what we can to keep up the illusion of normalcy).

Re: Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

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Post by grepfru_it »

lloeki wrote: post #31

> Sign on with Google Game over. Zoom requires no account to join a meeting and I just learned a couple of days ago it even works in the browser (toggle in the account settings of the one starting the meeting) I even plugged a Logitech c920 webcam in my Xbox One and did a meeting this way using Edge. Sadly the audio API seems unsupported in that Edge so I had to join the audio through another means. > VS Zoom > Don't…

You can create a new meeting where that ID can be used to connect at anytime.

Re: Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

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Post by edoceo »

ivanhoe wrote: post #54
michaelmior wrote: post #45

In person, I have an open door policy with my students. If my door is open, it generally means I'm available to talk with them. Since all of our instruction has moved online, I'm adopting a virtual open door policy. I have a camera pointed at my door. If that door is open, students know I am there and if they announce themselves, I "let them in" by turning the camera around. When I'm in a meeting, I mute the audio an…

Frankly I'd be really worried about forgetting to mute the stream.

I use a room with my team that auto-mutes everyone on a timer, so you have to un-mute explicitly to talk. So we can leave the audio on all the time.

Also, one can use an external mic, w/physical switch and lamp indicator.

Auto-mute has saved me many times tho.

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Post by ihattendorf »

shyamady wrote: post #24
Yizahi wrote: post #8

10x more seamless. Step 1 - register Google account... I suppose contact discovery is also through Google?

I'll try to add multiple authentications soon. Thanks!

How about no authentication (guest mode)? That seems even more seamless.

Re: Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

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Post by shyamady »

edoceo wrote: post #66
ivanhoe wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frankly I'd be really worried about forgetting to mute the stream.

I use a room with my team that auto-mutes everyone on a timer, so you have to un-mute explicitly to talk. So we can leave the audio on all the time. Also, one can use an external mic, w/physical switch and lamp indicator. Auto-mute has saved me many times tho.

No worry. You can set up a room default-mute-off on the setting on the app :)

Re: Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

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Post by shyamady »

lloeki wrote: post #31

> Sign on with Google Game over. Zoom requires no account to join a meeting and I just learned a couple of days ago it even works in the browser (toggle in the account settings of the one starting the meeting) I even plugged a Logitech c920 webcam in my Xbox One and did a meeting this way using Edge. Sadly the audio API seems unsupported in that Edge so I had to join the audio through another means. > VS Zoom > Don't…

Multiple authentications are important. I know Zoom's personal ID, but it's not dedicated to always-on. For realizing the always-on room, showing the real-time status is necessary I suppose.
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