On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:16 PM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2020-05-26, Frank Tarczynski <frank.tarczyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm building a video conference appliance using a Raspberry Pi 4 for > > my parents. > > Sorry, no advice running Gentoo on RPi. I run OSMC/Kodi on an older > RPi, and it works fine, but I don't think there are any video > conference apps for Kodi. > > But... > > For skype and zoom, I'd probably just buy them a 10" Kindle Fire. > > There are Zoom and Skype apps available for it. Main drawback: > smallish screen and limited to 4 video windows at a time in > zoom. However, it's portable: you can flip to the back camera and walk > around the house/yard to show something to people. It's also nice in > that you can just tap on a Zoom invite url in the email app, and it > "just works". > > I haven't trie Skype on Fire. > > You can add hangounts/duo, but you've got to futz around sideloading > the Google App store first. > > -- > Grant FYI, this project exists: https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit
