Maybe the "secret" can just be included in the announcement? I didn't think Chrome was open source.
Apr. 2, 2021 15:46:14 Scott Murphy <scott.mur...@arrow-eye.com>: > A few items to attempt addressing ongoing commentary from the chat and > mailing list. > > Poor performance on the call… > > Having now had more video conference experience as a client and as a host, I > can state that using WiFi (on your computer anyway) seems to be a terrible > idea. The Jitsi client on my cell phone does not appear to have such an > issue, at least not that I have noticed. > > I have also done Zoom, Ring, WebEX, and Teams meetings, all of which seem to > have lower reliability on a WiFi laptop than a wired one. > > The “official” browser for jitsi is Chrome - the Jitsi website states that > explicitly. Other browsers do work, but your experience may be non-optimal. > > If you have multiple browsers open and you try the conference from one of > them first, sometimes the microphone and/or camera does not get released to > the new browser. Kill the old browser and restart your new one. That usually > fixes it. Remember that in addition to the microphone and camera icons on the > bottom of the page, you probably allowed your browser access to the hardware. > There is a little icon in the URL bar that shows permissions. If you mess > them up, you may need to drop the conference and reconnect to reset those > permissions. > > Audio issues. I have not yet found that the server is the issue. Linux in > particular has so many ways of handling sound that it can be difficult to > untangle the variety of items. Just ask John about the fun with his music > player for the dance music. I have a few hardware devices I have to remember > to switch to the correct positions before my sound works and that is before I > get into software items. > > Latency/video quality issues. I look at the bandwidth icon for all > participants and I have no idea why some people (me included) end up with a > yellow or red icon showing poor bandwidth. As far as I can tell, we all end > up routing through Front St. In Toronto. I have pretty good bandwidth and my > connectivity traditionally seems a bit poor. Last night, it seems great. One > “fix” is to adjust your video quality to low (in the bottom right hand corner > pop-up menu accessed via the three dots). > > John has suggested that a subset of members may want to try some experiments > and document their experiences to help others. Let him know if willing to > participate. Expected level of effort = 1 hour to try Jitsi (via Framatalk > and Jitsi itself), Google Meet and Zoom. > > > The monthly URL ’secret’... > > I’ll post it here since it was requested: LinuxOttawaYYYYMMDD > > The club name with mixed case followed by the date of the meeting in year, > month and day format. Yesterday we used LinuxOttawa20210401, next month we > will use LinuxOttawa20210506. I don’t think that is particularly difficult to > follow, but I have been known to be wrong on many occasions and if people > want it changed to a fixed string, we can do that. I’m not in favour, but > this is a group issue and I will go with what people want. > > I have been told that browser caching has leftovers from previous meetings in > the URL cache and if you don’t complete (and check) the full URL, it could > replace the URL you want by one of the old ones, so that may also be causing > some issues as well. > > > DNS… > > Since the video conference server is only used for a couple of hours a month > and the existing VPS probably will not be able to host it due to resource > limitations, I use a short-lived VM from a hosting provider. I do not have an > IP address until I spin up the new instance and receive the new address. I > then enter it with the DNS service we have. It is usually live instantly via > most DNS services as the elapsed month has flushed it from most caches. I > have seen it not resolve a few times the past from some upstream systems and > resolve from others. In genera, it is live within a minute of getting the > record, which also has a 5 minute life span, so it should refresh quickly. > > Chrome (and others) seem to have issues with cleanly accessing sites that > they have had issues with before, probably internal caching, some less than > optimal DNS code or a wealth of other issues (e.g. cookies) that we will > likely never know about. Try it in an incognito window and see if it works > there. If not, do a check on the command line. Try a different DNS service. > Here is a list of well known ones: > > OpenDNS - 208.67.222.222 > Cloudflare = 1.1.1.1 > Google Public DNS - 8.8.8.8 > Comodo Secure DNS - 8.26.56.26 > Quad9 - 9.9.9.9 > Verisign Public DNS - 64.6.65.6 > OpenNIC - 13.239.157.177 > UncensoredDNS - 91.239.100.100 > CleanBrowsing - 185.228.168.168 > Yandex DNS (Russia) - 77.88.8.7 > UltraRecursive DNS - 156.154.70.1 > Alternate DNS - 198.101.242.72 > AdGuard DNS - 176.103.130.130 > > > Video server readiness… > > My bad here. Setup time always sneaks up on me. > > I should have automated it months ago, but I was having a “it only takes 15 > minutes” mental block. Yeah, it only takes 15 minutes if nothing else is > going on and I’m actually engaged in what I’m doing. I know better at work > and have a number of things set up to deal with that mentality. I need to be > applying that to this item, so I’ll automate the server build and with a > little Ansible scripting. > > I can probably get the DNS changes handled with a Dynamic record and a little > scripting to make it point to a page on our server with a countdown or > something like that and change to the new server when it is ready. > > > Hopefully that answers most of the issues people have raised. > > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org > To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
