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AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

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Re: AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

#11

I am not sure what protocol is being promoted here. If this is based on some random thing they cooked up themselves then they are part of the problem...

As far as I can tell these are old school phone-in conference rooms, so there's no protocol to speak of. You set it up using the system and then call the conference room from any phone.

Re: AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

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post #2

Any guidance on the use-case of using this compared to Uberconference?

This is just old fashioned telephone conferencing. Dial a number, enter a conference code. Uberconference has screen sharing, dial-out vs dial-in, etc.

The open source part of this seems nice, as opposed to figuring it out yourself with Twilio. They have it all packaged to run on Google App Engine. Though the timing isn't great now that Twilio supports their own "serverless hosting" via AWS Lambda. They should probably offer an option to deploy it that way as well.

This isn't earth shaking to me, but there are companies that still do a fair amount of plain old telephone conferences, and overpay for it.

Re: AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

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post #5

The descriptions are slim and there's no screenshots of the product in use, why would someone click 'Go' on a paid plan after seeing barely any information?

They don't do a great job of explaining that it's solely "dial up audio conferencing" via Twilio. Once you have that context, it's more clear.

Though they could bubble up some of the specs/features from Twilio (https://www.twilio.com/voice/conference)

Re: AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

#14
post #7

Too many layers of oxymorons for my taste. Open Source. Twilio. Plans and pricing. I'm yet to see a solid, usable and mature FOSS WebRTC implementation, hubl.in is a good candidate though.

What's your opinion on https://inthelocus.com/ ? They got screen sharing without plugins. Most WebRTC-ish implementations don't have this but apparently whitelisting by Mozilla/Google is necessary to do that, so FOSS is not possible at all for screen sharing?

Re: AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

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post #14
post #7

Too many layers of oxymorons for my taste. Open Source. Twilio. Plans and pricing. I'm yet to see a solid, usable and mature FOSS WebRTC implementation, hubl.in is a good candidate though.

What's your opinion on https://inthelocus.com/ ? They got screen sharing without plugins. Most WebRTC-ish implementations don't have this but apparently whitelisting by Mozilla/Google is necessary to do that, so FOSS is not possible at all for screen sharing?

Aww, that means "in the toilet" in German.

Anyways, that is not FOSS. And worse, they mention patents on their developments.

Re: AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

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post #12
post #2

Any guidance on the use-case of using this compared to Uberconference?

This is just old fashioned telephone conferencing. Dial a number, enter a conference code. Uberconference has screen sharing, dial-out vs dial-in, etc. The open source part of this seems nice, as opposed to figuring it out yourself with Twilio. They have it all packaged to run on Google App Engine. Though the timing isn't great now that Twilio supports their own "serverless hosting" via AWS Lambda. They should probab…

We've also had a lot of issues with some other conference tools, especially with different software stacks/plugins etc..., so having a quickfire backup solution that we can get to in minutes is useful (esp. compared to "mobile phone on speaker" in an empty corner of the office we've had to resort to in the past), even if it just voice.

Re: AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls

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post #7

Too many layers of oxymorons for my taste. Open Source. Twilio. Plans and pricing. I'm yet to see a solid, usable and mature FOSS WebRTC implementation, hubl.in is a good candidate though.

Firefox had this "Firefox Hello" but only one-on-call. Sadly they discountined it.
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