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GNU/Jami, a distributed voice, video and chat platform

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Re: GNU/Jami, a distributed voice, video and chat platform

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Post by sk2020 »

bleepblorp wrote: post #6

I've repeatedly tried, but I have not been able to get Jami to work. At all. Text messages sent between a Linux PC and an Android device are delivered less than 25% of the time. Neither audio or video calls will connect in either direction. There are several open bugs on the Jami Gitlab page regarding similar problems on Android but there are no fixes available. I can't say if Jami is useful in situations where both…

Mumble is fine if you can give up the video portion. My work uses Zoom, but, frankly a conference call would always suffice. I’m very skeptical of the value-add of video in meetings.

Re: GNU/Jami, a distributed voice, video and chat platform

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

admax88q wrote: post #17
forgotpwd16 wrote: post #2

This is what was known as GNU Ring and before that SFLphone.

GNU Ring was a better name IMO. I feel embarrassed to ask people to install "Jami" I wonder what the motivation for rebranding was. Could be "ring" is a poor choice in other cultures.

According to their announcement it was because there're trademark-protected commercial products that use the name Ring and for marketing[1].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20181219044411/https://ring.cx/e...

Re: GNU/Jami, a distributed voice, video and chat platform

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Post by skykooler »

josteink wrote: post #15
bleepblorp wrote: post #6

I've repeatedly tried, but I have not been able to get Jami to work. At all. Text messages sent between a Linux PC and an Android device are delivered less than 25% of the time. Neither audio or video calls will connect in either direction. There are several open bugs on the Jami Gitlab page regarding similar problems on Android but there are no fixes available. I can't say if Jami is useful in situations where both…

> Are there any working ad free, commercial surveillance free, video chat tools out there? Matrix. https://matrix.org/

Matrix is not, in and of itself, a video chat protocol; the clients that support video use Jitsi for it.

Re: GNU/Jami, a distributed voice, video and chat platform

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Post by tga »

bleepblorp wrote: post #6

I've repeatedly tried, but I have not been able to get Jami to work. At all. Text messages sent between a Linux PC and an Android device are delivered less than 25% of the time. Neither audio or video calls will connect in either direction. There are several open bugs on the Jami Gitlab page regarding similar problems on Android but there are no fixes available. I can't say if Jami is useful in situations where both…

Nextcloud Talk is pretty painless to install and mostly works. Last problems I remember were with with clients not always ringing and connecting, especially over 4G. I've used it with family for 1-1 video calls for a while and it was good enough.

https://nextcloud.com/talk/

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