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