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Sudo needs donations to pay next months rent! (due Jan 25)

by Paige P

Hi everyone, We are short on being able to pay rent this month. We need at least $630.50 by the 25th (this Saturday)! Our rent payment this month (and for the rest of the year) is $2380.50. Utilities are about $125/month. And we have only $1875 in the bank right now. In the immediate term, we need people to either up their monthly dues or do a one time payment. Here's how you donate: https://sudoroom.org/donate/ So we aren't in this situation again, also please reach out if you want to join grant writing efforts. There's a few of us who have expressed interest but there's been no work done here of late, to my understanding. Since member dues have not been enough to cover rent, we have relied on grant money to get by. But our last grant from StopWaste has been all used up now. Paige

1 year, 2 months

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February 2nd Linux event (fwd)

by Jake

this is great! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:27:33 -0800 To: Info <info(a)sudoroom.org> Subject: Re: [sudo-info] Linux event We're all listeners of the Linux Unplugged <https://linuxunplugged.com/> podcast which is hosting listening parties all over the world on 2/2. We are gathering in person for the first time. I don't know any of the other attendees personally. So far 6 folks have RSVP'd. We would really just need a space where we could set up a laptop and speakers, and would bring all our own gear. *--* *"Rather than curse the darkness, light a candle."* -WL Watkinson On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > Yes that would be great! Can you tell us more about your group? > > -jake > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, Rsberlo wrote: > > Hello, we are looking for a space to hold a linuxnunplugged podcast > listening part on Feb 2 from 11-2 for 8-10 people. Do you have any spaces > that could accommodate us?

1 year, 2 months

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KQED Features FixIt clinic – Sudo Room

by Romy Ilano

KQED feature on Fixit clinic is up on our blog! https://sudoroom.org/kqed-features-fixit-clinic/ Sent from my iPad

1 year, 2 months

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Brainstorming Topics for the Year of the Snake! – Sudo Room

by Romy Ilano

1 year, 2 months

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selling the vending machine

by Jake Watters

do you know anyone who wants to buy/adopt a vending machine project? The one in Sudoroom has got to go, we have better uses for the space. Here's the craigslist ad: https://post.craigslist.org/manage/7815452712 here's the sudoroom wiki page about this project (and yes there were once two vending machines!): https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Hack-o-mat -jake

1 year, 2 months

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new January newsletter WIP

by Romy Ilano

Happy 2025 New Year! https://sudoroom.org/january-2024/ <https://t.co/POjsW8lxCk> We start our year off with a joyful spark & are looking for member to share stories on how our hackerspace helped them grow this year ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 3 months

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Computer Classes at BPL South Branch: get a free laptop!

by Peter Mui

* Hi Sudoers: Note this 4-class series at the BPL South Branch: …This 4-part digital skills series! Tech Exchange provides an opportunity for community members to unlock their digital potential… Complete all four classes, and you’ll receive a free laptop to keep! https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/digital-skills-tech-exchange-t… <https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/digital-skills-tech-exchange-t…> -Peter *

1 year, 3 months

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Free mini fridge

by Jake Watters

Does anyone want a working mini fridge? There are two in sudoroom that should go. Let me know if you want pictures. These are a little taller than the tiny cube ones, and probably easily enough space for one person. One is a sanyo and the other is a magic chef.

1 year, 3 months

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Ring in the New Year at Sudoroom Hardware and SoftWEAR Hack Night:

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Ring in the New Year at Sudoroom: here are some projects we’ll be working on tonight: -Telepresence monitor: we’ve now got two large candidate TVs to try to get working: 1) Patrik from CCL’s Samsung un48J5200AF 48” TV (“It has been having intermittent problems with the screen going black”) and the 55” 4K TV, Toshiba Model K550WDR1/55l621U (when power is applied It displays the splash screen with the logo, and then goes out.) It’d be great to get at least one of these TVs working so we can mount it to the rolling monitor stand and use it to telepresence people into Sudorooom via jitsi or Discord. -Chromebook Conversion: want a lightweight laptop you can experiment with Linux on? We have lots of Chromebooks retired by school districts that are convertible to Linux; you can have one to help build out a Chromebook and Linux hacking, distribution and support practice at Sudoroom. (See http://bit.ly/cbsave for more details.) -Donation Stations for Sudoroom and Free Store: we have some large PVC tubing we need to secure to a heavy base. I’ve also got some electronics we can use to trigger positive feedback celebratory and acknowledgment effects when someone donates, and other electronics to sound an alarm if someone tries to make off with it. *** And don’t forget Kent’s cleanup scheduled for Friday Jan 5 11-5: let’s get a head start on that tonight and purge some clutter. *** Hope to see you later, -Peter

1 year, 3 months

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anyone interested in doing a thread on 2024 year in review for our blog?

by Romy Ilano

Is anyone interested in doing a 2024 year in review for our blog at SudoRoom? Some highlights: - Women and NonBinary night has been really awesome and rocking! - July/ish? we were saved by EBPrec - Romy: started a "learning how to learn" chapter, reduced some screen time. - Romy: we started doing meetups that focused on face to face - minimal screens, no remote, with just whiteboards. this resulted in a lot of great things! like our algebraic data types with RUST - https://sudoroom.org/algebraic-data-types-in-rust-whiteboard-style-kung-fu-… - What was your most surprising encounter at SudoRoom this year? - What did you learn this year at SudoRoom? - What do you plan for 2025? i might make a google form about this ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 3 months

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Building Roof Installation Complete

by Valerie Jameson

Winter Seasons Greetings! I am reaching out to let everyone know that the new roof installation process has concluded. The roofing crews last day was on 12/13 and this past week our team performed a third visual inspection after final punch list items were concluded. In the coming days, CALLI will square away the final paperwork for this project. The Sierra Roofing team has shown us that the roof is weather proofed and the work appears to be satisfactory. Please keep in mind that there is meant to be a warranty on the work performed by the company. In the event that there are leaks/droplets identified please let me know via email or slack as soon as possible and we will try and identify the source. Over the scope of the project, two additional building issues were brought to our attention pertaining to the exterior wall of the building facing 47th street that will need updates in the coming year, and the design of the rafter beams that go into the stucco wall on the front facing Shattuck side of the building (close to the overlaps with the tile) that might be cause for an additional scope of work. The CALLI team will continue to review capital improvement needs and work on scheduling building upgrades to strengthen the longevity of the building. In the meantime feel free to remove your tarps and protective sheeting, and make efforts to clean and operate your spaces at normal capacities. This post construction period coupled with the ongoing pest/rodent servicing will be most successful if we are able to stay alert and monitor whether the changes are making a positive impact. Thank you and happy holidays, -- *A Throwback Reflection & Remedy In This Moment**: **So that the weight of this country does not crush you <https://activismjoystudio.com/a-poem-so-that-the-weight-of-this-country-doe…>* *Valerie Jameson* (she/ella) Property Manager - 4799 Shattuck Avenue *Collective Action & Land Liberation Institute (CALLI) * CALLI Website <https://www.thecalli.org/> East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ebprec> | X <https://www.x.com/ebprec> | Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/eb.prec> | YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/ebprec> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/ebprec>

1 year, 3 months

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The Hidden Innovation of the African-American Banjo – Sudo Room

by Romy Ilano

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Is anyone here next week? I haven't taken any of next week's info down on lu.ma/sudoroom

by Romy Ilano

Hey is anyone here next week? I have left up the two meetups on https://lu.ma/sudoroom I haven't had time to do a lot of tweeting, but will try... I'm out of town next week! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

1 year, 3 months

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Sudoroom tonight: KQED and More!

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: Heads up that KQED is going to be at Sudoroom tonight to get advance footage for a Fixit Clinic event Jan 22 at KQED headquarters: https://www.kqed.org/events/4915/fixit-clinic Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Host and Producer of KQEDs The Bay podcast <https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay> will be bringing a clock to be looked at tonight; that and the other items we might see are at bit.ly/itemcheckins Also: someone (Patrik from CCL?) left a Samsung un48J5200AF 48” TV (If it’s Patrik’s: “It has been having intermittent problems with the screen going black,”) We also still have the 55” 4K TV, Toshiba Model K550WDR1 / Toshiba 55l621U disassembled: when power is applied It displays the splash screen with the logo, and then goes out. It’d be great to get at least one of these TVs working so we can use it to telepresence people in to sudorooom. And we’re building out a core of stewards for Sudoroom’s Chromebook/laptop refurbishing, conversion to Linux and long-term support program. I plan to bring some converted and convert-able Chromebooks to play with tonight. (see http://bit.ly/cbsave.) Let’s put on a great show! See you later, -Peter

1 year, 3 months

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Old Sudo-er/synth head coming visit the Omni Thurs & Fri

by lewis_black

Hi all, I used to live in Oakland 9 years ago (wow…), of when I used to attend hack nights at Sudoroom and participate in festivities. I play my own blend of modular psytech. I brought a small backpack hardware setup. If anyone wants to jam between now and Friday nite. Also planning on taking my battery-powered rig to Dolores park or Lake Merrit to play a set, which is usually a consistent 137bpm. Control voltage and analog contraptions highly encouraged. Cheers. And continue hacking the Planet ✊🖖 Oh, a link to my music can be found here: https://on.soundcloud.com/tvfeR3bSHFEyRr4s7

1 year, 3 months

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Wrong time listed for Hardware Hack Night

by Peter Mui

Hi Sudoers: The time needs to be updated here: it says 7:30 to 11:45: who can update that to 8PM-11PM? https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-fix-it-clnic-2024-12-03/ Sincerely, -Peter

1 year, 3 months

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50" TV for Sudo?

by Patrik D'haeseleer

I have a 50" TV that I'd like to donate to Sudo. It has been having intermittent problems with the screen going black. I don't have time to chase down the issue, but maybe someone there can diagnose the problem during one of the FixIt clinics. Shall I drop it off? Patrik

1 year, 3 months

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Meeting | it's so rainy 🍁

by William Myers

Hello everyone, I think we aight to have a meeting today despite the cold rain. Who can come out? I'm sorry I didn't call this earlier, I've just started a new job and I've been so busy. Anyone know how useable the sudo room is with the work being done? See you soon, drive carefully with all the wetness. William

1 year, 3 months

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Interesting Thesis Talk Fri 12-06 Noon via Zoom

by Peter Mui

Both Sudoroom and CCC members might be interested in this UC Berkeley PhD thesis talk Friday at Noon: attend via Zoom or in person at 306 Soda Hall. -Peter -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: NanoNews: ME Ph.D. Seminar - Fri 12-06 Noon / Kamyar Behrouzi Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:20:03 -0800 From: Avi Rosenzweig <victorr(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> To: nano-news(a)lists.berkeley.edu, de-nse-students(a)lists.berkeley.edu, msegrads06(a)lists.berkeley.edu, physics-nanosubset(a)lists.berkeley.edu, colloquia(a)physics.berkeley.edu CC: nseggfaculty(a)lists.berkeley.edu Hi Folks, Kamyar is giving his PhD seminar this Friday, yay! 306 Soda Hall 12pm See details below and send your morale support his way :-) Avi > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *Kamyar Behrouzi <kbehrouzi(a)berkeley.edu> > > Hope you are doing well, I’m giving my PhD seminar this Friday from > noon-1pm in Soda 306 room. The advertisement is attached, it’s my > pleasure to have you in my talk. Please share the details with Nano > community if it’s possible. > Thanks > Best Regards > Kamyar > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > ME Ph.D. Seminar 🎓🎓🎓 > > > *Ph.D. Seminar* > > *Kamyar Behrouzi* > /(Ph.D. Candidate)/ > > *AI-Assisted Plasmonic Biosensing* > > *Friday, December 06**, 2024* > *Noon - 1:00 PM* > *306 Soda Hall > Zoom Link: > **/https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/94546676505?pwd=Kp9lB0rIS17EVaFPxA75YLul9DQFSd.1/* > > *Abstract:* > > Join my PhD seminar to explore how advanced biosensing technologies > are paving the way for personalized healthcare. Despite remarkable > breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, such as AlphaFold, the Nobel > Prize-winning protein structure predictor, medical diagnostics lag > behind due to limited access to high-quality data. Current tools > primarily measure basic vital signs, overlooking the wealth of > biochemical information essential for precise health monitoring. My > research addresses this gap by developing simple, affordable, and > highly sensitive optical biosensors. Highlights include a colorimetric > approach for at-home protein detection, enhanced by the coffee-ring > effect and deep learning, as well as ultra-sensitive nucleic acid and > protein detection using plasmonic nanoparticles arranged at > exceptional points. These innovations are further refined through > AI-assisted phase sensing and integration with photonic circuits for > compact, scalable designs. This work bridges the divide between > advanced sensing technologies and practical medical applications, > offering new possibilities for accessible, individualized diagnostics. > > Committee Co-Chair: /Prof. /*Liwei Lin *(ME) > Committee Co-Chair: /Prof. /*Boubacar Kante *(EECS) > Additional Member: /Prof. /*Dorian Liepmann *(ME/BIOENG) > Academic Senate Representative: /Prof./*Ming-Chiang Wu *(EECS) > > Facebook > <https://berkeley.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=755d1128798673f9f3bb3e0…> > > > Website > <https://berkeley.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=755d1128798673f9f3bb3e0…> > > > > /Copyrights © |Fall 2024| |Mechanical Engineering| All rights reserved./ > > > > > > > > > ******* Avi Rosenzweig Physical Sciences Division College of Letters & Science Dean’s Office 101 Durant Hall MC 2920 UC Berkeley Nanosciences & Nanoengineering Institute 548 Sutardja Dai Hall MC 1726 voice 510.643.6681 message 612.888.7938 I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary. -----John Milton To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nano-news+unsubscribe(a)lists.berkeley.edu.

1 year, 4 months

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cheap electric vehicle projects available

by Jake

Hi everyone, I seem to be plagued with too many electric vehicles, from about 10-20 years ago. They are really cool and fun to drive, but they need work and I'm out of space and time to store and work on them. Most of them are 2002 Toyota RAV4 EVs, which many people don't even know were ever made. Here's the wikipedia page on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#First_generation_(1997) If you have a place to park a project car and interest in working on one, please let me know. If you are a PG&E customer, you can get up to $4000 (depending on your income) for buying a used EV like this (whether it drives or not) I will be fixing mine and my friend's over the next few months and I can help you fix yours too. Just let me know if you're interested. -jake

1 year, 4 months

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roof tar mess + free store/CALLI event on Friday Saturday

by Paige P

Hi, The roof repairs are still going on, and we are getting A LOT of the tar debris in sudo room. We did some cleanup Saturday and Monday, but I'm sure there will be more debris coming down, and it will be a lot of work to get the lab benches clear again. We put up one more tarp, but more would be great to cover all the lab benches. Also Thurs/Friday Free Store + CALLI (building owners) are running this event. If Sudo Room has items wanting to give away, we could join. I'll be there on Friday if anyone would like to coordinate. [image: signal-2024-12-02-100232_002.jpeg] Paige

1 year, 4 months

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How to make a Mini-XLR to 3.5mm cable?

by Nicholas Sun

Hi all, I've been trying to find a Mini-XLR Female to 3.5mm Female adapter but I haven't been able to find one. There were a few on Amazon but the reviews all said the left and right audio were reversed... My current idea is to instead purchase a Mini-XLR Female replacement head and solder on a 3.5mm Female head with attached cable. But I see different cable styles attached to the 3.5mm, there is a 2 cable version and also 3 cable version? And it sounds like this is Mono vs Stereo? But the XLR talks about "Ground, Hot, and Cold" and I can't tell how this maps onto the 3.5mm cabling? If we have any people knowledgeable about audio cabling would love help untangling this mystery, thanks!

1 year, 4 months

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Request to join sudo room

by Hex

Gr33t1ngs I’m Hex Ripley [it / its] I came in yesterday (nov 26) for the fix it clinic, had a lot of fun meeting y’all and working on to virtual machine set ups, working on the upstairs 3D printer, & helping come up with a solution to fix the roof rack cargo box. I’d like to be a member to contribute monetarily and with labor. I love doing electronics repair and I want to make use of my skills in a way that can help others. I’d love to participate in the fix it clinic regularly & also I’d be happy to work on the laptops in order to get them functioning for donation, teach people some electronic troubleshooting & repair should the opportunity be available. Also happy to be additional hands on any facilities work. Basically I think y’all are cool and I’m here to be useful :) Want to mention that I live in Guerneville, happy to drive in & also would be happy to carpool people who live in the Sonoma/Marin area as well. Current projects I’ve got going: I have an IBM Thinkpad 701c (the one with the cool keyboard!!!) that I want to restore - failing that, it will be up-cycled with a more modern motherboard & screen, preserving the keyboard. Other Projects in various stages of incompleteness: - USB-C to Barrel Jack chargers - search.server.lgbt (my SearxNG instance, google/ddg search proxy) - 2010 Lenovo ThinkServer Rebuild (may end up in a colocation center… eventually?) - Ender 3 repairs (never ending ;-;) - iPhone powered Pwnagotchi case - Mini Model M keyboard cyber deck - punk.lgbt (lgbt / womens healthcare resource directory, not up currently, looking into threat model)

1 year, 4 months

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How this Rooftop Grew 20,000 lbs of Food in Oakland - anyone know this guy

by Romy Ilano

https://youtu.be/lczgUj4InX0?si=Bcl4yUdxnin3ZLpG This is really cool there’s this guy in Oakland growing tons of food on his roof does anyone at Sudoroom know him it be cool to feature him on our page and maybe say hi I don’t know if he’s open to that though he looks sort of busy but this is really cool we could possibly do a collaboration inspired by him and work with Counterculture Labs Sent from my iPhone

1 year, 4 months

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Jitsi telescreen setup in sudoroom

by Jake

Dear Sudoroom, It's been almost three years since this telescreen was set up with Jitsi, on the wall in sudoroom. A few months ago the computer got taken, so I set up a new one, and Matty is trying to get the automated software working again so it's automatic and turns the screen off when no one is joined. https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Bigtv How do people feel about the telescreen? Do people like having this in place so that people can connect with the space from elsewhere? How could it be improved? Also a reminder, we have a telephone and the number is I-HACK-AT-386 For a while the telephone was switching off but i recently made something that automatically reboots it when that happens, so it should be pretty reliable now. -jake ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:18:15 -0800 From: ruin mechanic via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> Reply-To: ruin mechanic <ruinmechanic(a)gmail.com> To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> Subject: [sudo-discuss] Re: Jitsi telescreen setup in sudoroom! Rejoice in the hacker wizardry of the new Telepresence Portal Jake and I wrapped it up today and hackerspace futurism has been achieved the monitor will turn on if any Sudoers join the jitsi chatroom and it will shut off if everyone leaves the chat here is the source for the chat client app powering it https://github.com/sudoroom/jitsi-telepresence-portal hooray! -matty/interrupt On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:50 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > wow, this has progressed a lot! > > tonight, in the jitsi chat, which is here: > https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles > > matt and me (to the entertainment of everyone passing through sudoroom and > working in there) have been chatting and co-hacking, and i've been learning > npm/node/react web stuff. > > basically we installed the jitsi SDK repo and ran it, and then hacked it > to go > to the meeting room we've been using instead of the default setting - and > now > we're adding a function to it to automatically control the screen power > (screensaver) depending on whether someone is in the "room" or not. > > we're also sharing a tmux window in the machine (the one controlling the > big > TV) and teaching each other lots of stuff. And neither of us are > physically in > the space! > > It's the most exciting saturday night i've had in a long time! > > If anyone else is interested in this kind of social hacking, speak up and > i'll > ping you if it happens again. Or just join the jitsi room (linked above) > and > leave it open until someone starts talking to you. > > last night (friday night) we had a bunch of people join the chat!!! > including > a couple of people who randomly hadn't seen each other in almost 5 years! > It was basically a party, including whoever was in sudoroom, and like 6 > different people who rolled through the jitsi chat. > > -jake > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Jake wrote: > >> awesome! I believe this is what Matty is working on too >> >> https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-web-sdk >> >> that was so much fun with everyone talking to each other tonight! >> >> -jake >> >> On Sat, 15 Jan 2022, Marc Juul wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 11:54 PM Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 1:37 AM Jake wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've set up a jitsi terminal on the wall in Sudoroom! >>>>> >>>>> It's a big TV made by Hitachi, and it has a feature where it can go > into >>>>> "power saving" mode when the HDMI signal is lost. That means the > screen >>>>> can power down when DPMS puts the monitor to "sleep". It has a webcam >>>>> that's clearly labeled, and on a hinge so it can easily be aimed down > at >>>>> the floor if people are shy, and it has a Jabra USB speaker/microphone >>>>> thing which should hopefully provide good speakerphone > functionality. I >>>>> have the computer setup to start firefox, and i have firefox set to > open >>>>> the jitsi page, where permissions are already enabled for > webcam/audio. >>>>> The only remaining need is to automatically wake the monitor from > sleep >>>>> (using "DISPLAY=:0 xset force dpms on") whenever there is anyone else >>>>> detected in the jitsi "room" >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I wrote a short program that can trigger a command based on downstream >>>> bandwidth usage: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/sudoroom/bw-trigger >>>> >>> >>> So it turned out that the library I used doesn't really work for UDP :/ >>> >>> The correct solution is definitely to have a client that joins with > XMPP. >>> Information is sparse but I found this code that I believe is for >>> stress-testing that should be modifiable into what we need: >>> >>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs >>> >>> Relevant code in: >>> >>> https://github.com/jitsi/jxs/blob/master/src/Participant.js >>> >>> -- >>> marc/juul >>> >> >

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