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

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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:18:15 -0800
From: ruin mechanic via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org>
Reply-To: ruin mechanic <ruinmechanic@gmail.com>
To: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss@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@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@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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