Lloyd Brown
2014-09-26 22:57:10 UTC
Hi. I have a somewhat odd question, but I'm hoping that someone here
may be able to give me a few ideas.
Does anyone know of a technological solution that could be used to voice
chat with a small group (10-15) people, preferably using wifi,
smart-phone apps, etc.?
Long story short, I'm probably teaching a class next semester (starting
in January) where we'll be visiting a few server rooms, and I'd love to
be able to talk to the class members, without having to yell over the
server room noise. My thought was that if all or most of them have
smart phones, someone must have done something like this before.
Currently we're considering several options, including
- Google Hangouts or Skype - Both of these are limited to 10
participants (though possibly more in a view-only mode). I'm also not
certain how much uplink bandwidth we would be able to manage, so if it
requires hitting an off-site server, it may be a problem. Also we don't
really need the
- Something VOIP driven (asterisk, etc), possibly on something small and
portable like a RPI (eg. http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/), and just
use some kind of soft-phone on the individual devices. I'm so very
unfamiliar with this, I'm not sure if it would work or not, or how well.
It seems a little over-engineered, but that's just my initial impression.
Anything else we should be considering?
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Lloyd Brown
Systems Administrator
Fulton Supercomputing Lab
Brigham Young University
http://marylou.byu.edu
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may be able to give me a few ideas.
Does anyone know of a technological solution that could be used to voice
chat with a small group (10-15) people, preferably using wifi,
smart-phone apps, etc.?
Long story short, I'm probably teaching a class next semester (starting
in January) where we'll be visiting a few server rooms, and I'd love to
be able to talk to the class members, without having to yell over the
server room noise. My thought was that if all or most of them have
smart phones, someone must have done something like this before.
Currently we're considering several options, including
- Google Hangouts or Skype - Both of these are limited to 10
participants (though possibly more in a view-only mode). I'm also not
certain how much uplink bandwidth we would be able to manage, so if it
requires hitting an off-site server, it may be a problem. Also we don't
really need the
- Something VOIP driven (asterisk, etc), possibly on something small and
portable like a RPI (eg. http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/), and just
use some kind of soft-phone on the individual devices. I'm so very
unfamiliar with this, I'm not sure if it would work or not, or how well.
It seems a little over-engineered, but that's just my initial impression.
Anything else we should be considering?
--
Lloyd Brown
Systems Administrator
Fulton Supercomputing Lab
Brigham Young University
http://marylou.byu.edu
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