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
>>
>