Note that this article is about the legacy Jitsi desktop application, and NOT about Jitsi Meet, the WebRTC compatible video conferencing project. Source: I'm a Jitsi dev.
Here's the Jitsi architecture: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/oDSRzF4.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/oDSRzF4.png</a><p>Screen grabbed from their excellent tutorial videos:
<a href="https://jitsi.org/news/tag/tutorial/" rel="nofollow">https://jitsi.org/news/tag/tutorial/</a><p>One thing we’ve found in deploying Jitsi several times is that good performance is difficult to achieve across parties who are across the globe.<p>We have some of our team in Armenia, Belarus and London and not all of then get consistent performance.<p>I know you can do geographic sharding so all EU or US guests get connected to their closest server but is there a way to ensure cross country participants <i>all</i> get good performance?
I've installed my own instance of Jitsi and it's particularly useful for video chats with older people or those less technically able.<p>My use case is elderly in-laws who can use a laptop, but are incapable of installing anything other than malware. Installing Zoom would be too complicated for them and would probably discourage them from participating in a family video chat.<p>With Jitsi, I send them a link by email and text them to check their email. They click on the link, browser opens and voila! - they're able to chat with their family, with zero fuss.<p>Costs me €2.49 per month for a Hetzner cloud instance.
I love Jitsi, before Covid19 I never used it, now I use it daily for calls with family and yesterday I watched a video of our 4x4 trip with friends together with them (5 guys), streaming it from YouTube into the group chat. It worked very well.
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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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?<p>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?<p>Does anyone else have Jitsi setup in a conference room like setting with a TV?
I noticed Jitsi was purchased by 8x8 in 2018, I'm curious how they're video conferencing software differs from <a href="https://meet.jit.si/" rel="nofollow">https://meet.jit.si/</a><p><a href="https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing" rel="nofollow">https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing</a><p>It looks pretty similar from the description and screenshots. But with more of an enterprisey-focus and integration with their existing software.