Video and voice chat with matrix works well once it’s set up. I… Struggled a bit setting it up, and I don’t think I’m the exception.

Haven’t tried screen sharing yet.

Having gone through it, a matrix server is not newbie friendly yet.

(Though I agree that’s a great idea)

You likely have a cam release. Telesync is a bit better quality typically (sound is typically better). Anything better takes time

Honestly? It was a pain, I used several different guides and they were all out of date in different ways. Unfortunately, it looks like external users are having connectivity problems, that I’ll try to solve next week when I have time.

My kid is 9, and it’s all Minecraft and I just installed a non federated synapse server so they can text family without having to deal with parental controls. At that age, I figure it’s more about having fun, and if they learn typing skills on the way, big win

Oidc, and it’ll end up opening up to more family around the holidays, as authentik is also my matrix user provider (shut out of the real world because I wanted my 9 year old to be able to text and video call family). Mealie was a piece of cake compared to the whole synapse environment

Thanks! I finally linked mealie with authentik. It was a 10 minute task, if that, but this post pushed me over

I’m running https://github.com/awinterstein/habitica/ and have built the android app locally to get access. I really need to update and build it again eventually.

It’s not seamless, but it functions for the family.

Examples of the type of service I’m looking at: a media server, photos app (to replace Google Photos), game servers, recipe management, home automation… What other things do you know about that are fun/interesting/useful?

I use:

• Immich for photo hosting
• Jellyfin and navidrome for media (video and audio)
• Calibre and calibre-web for ebooks
• Minecraft server
• Mealie for recipes.
• Home assistant for automation
• Habitica for habit forming
• And I have fpp for my Christmas lights (the application is xlights, fpp is the server that runs the scripts)

All of these I like.

Can you set the BIOS to wake up at a certain time? Many have that option.

Ugh, I just got matrix with video working and it took way too long.

When I set it up, I did not know better.

Now? Inertia. Nginx already does it for other things, I haven’t bothered to move home assistant over because home assistant works ( all but one days in a cycle)

I understand.

I learned again for the nth time that home assistant doesnt like refreshing my cert, and I can’t go to the site to refresh the cert unless it has a valid cert…

Maybe I’ll fix it tomorrow. It’s valid again now.

I looked into it briefly: They have a comparison of different forks on their GitHub, it looks like when they ran the comparison, chaptarr did pretty poorly.

They also claim chaptarr is vibe coded, which carries it’s own baggage.

https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses/blob/main/FORKS.md

The closest I have is setting up a small single board computer as a vpn tunnel that your kobo can connect to, but I haven’t been that much in need. (Tunnel to home, then the kobo thinks it’s home and all is good)

I don’t want to punch a hole in my network that isn’t secured in some way for the kobo.

Still using readarr, with rreading glasses metadata

Watching the development of chaptarr and waiting for it to be ready for a daily driver

My process typically goes: ooh, shiny new service!
If it has a docker compose, I’ll read up a little more on it, then set it up.
At that point, I’ll cry a bit in having to change my nginx config, because it’s new and unsupported, figure out what’s actually needed, then realize I didn’t set it up with authentik or even check if it was supported.
Usually I’ll dig around and someone got something close, so I’ll set it up that way, and if it works, great! If not, dig through the documents.

Any further interoperability is luck based.

(I’m currently trying to get element-call working before I open it to my family, the whole matrix stack is leaving me scarred )

I started trying to set it up last week, I can’t seem to figure out why authentik and it will not play. It either tries authentik and gets a 404 or ignores it and doesn’t find the user. (Nginx is also involved). It’s the least user friendly thing I’ve tried to self host so far

for future me: Matrix, MAS, Authentik and nginx are working okay now. I because I tested out matrix, I needed to wipe the database, then my account would load right. Importantly, getting all the URLs correct was important, and important to nginx as well.

Using MAS helped clear things up, as is one set of documentation for mas as opposed to merging docs for a bunch of different authentication services to figure out what’s going on. Pay attention to the ports in their documents, and what gets routed where.

Next step: voice and video

No complaints, but I’m just 2-3 users, so I’ve not really pushed it hard.

Ram is full. I wouldn’t say performance is great, but it’s good enough that no one complains.