1 yr. ago • 96%

Zoom/discord/twitch self hosted options

I'd like to host a game night for friends and family where we play games like jackbox. I'd like to self host the service and give anyone a url and possibly a user name/password combination to access it. I'd like audio and video support as well as the ability to screen share and have a text chat option. I know there are a couple of services that do some of these things but does anyone know of an option that part offers all of this?

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I think Jisti does all of those things. Essentially a self hostable zoom. Audio, video, screensharing and text chats.

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  Yes.
  
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- Seconded - been trying out jitsi at work and I've been really impressed
  
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- I'll have to give this a try, thanks!
  
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Does anyone know anything about owncast?

https://owncast.online/
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- It's self-hosted Twitch. A very pleasant platform, tbh
  
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- I use it and works perfectly for my needs
  
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- owncast is more of a "stream one thing to multiple viewers" kind of thing, as opposed to Jitsi which is more for meetings.
  
  I've used owncast to host a couple of conferences, set it up on Linode with their single click install thing, I think. We had a jitsi call for the round table and one of the participants had OBS streamings its jitsi window to owncast. For individual presentations, we used https://vdo.ninja/ to get the presenters screen/camera/microphone onto OBS, where it was muxed and streamed to owncast.
  
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- It sounds like jitsi may be the answer for me but this will be my backup plan
  
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It might sound crazy, but nextcloud actually can do all of that. It's pretty easy to activate if you already have a nextcloud instance. Just enable nextcloud talk app on your nextcloud instance, and maybe add a stun/turn server to make it works through double nat.

https://nextcloud.com/talk/

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- After the stability issues I’ve heard. I wouldn’t even consider nextcloud for my family at this point.
  
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  What kind of stability issue? I've been running mine for 3 years and hasn't seen any yet.
  
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I found this the other day: https://revolt.chat/

I have yet to deploy it but from what I've seen it's a discord alternative

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- +1 as a discord replacement though, if op wants all in one then jitsi sounds like the way to go, but if they're looking for a drop in discord replacement revolt has been making progress
  
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- There is https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat too that some time ago was fosscord and it's literally a self hosted discord!
  
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  Isn't using an alternate discord client bannable under Discord TOS?
  
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- Revolt is a matrix-compliant client and server combo. It's easier to deploy than synapse+element but obviously you miss out on some fringe features. There's also the issue that a lot of the hard parts of setting up a matrix server are due to the video part.
  
  Since OP wants video chat and screen share first and foremost, and since revolt and matrix both use jitsi for this, OP can use straight up jitsi and set up matrix/revolt later.
  
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  Revolt doesn't federate with anything
  
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  I did't think Revolt was compatible with Matrix and I can't see anything on the website suggesting that? Link?
  
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Try revolt
https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted

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https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk might be an option. There's both a server based version and a p2p version IIRC.

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Im trying to remember the app we used to use back in the win xp days for voice chat when playing mmos online... Ah, TeamSpeak, is that still a thing?

Apparently it still exists and has a free self hosted license.

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Big Blue Button

Last time I searched for selhosted online meeting, I found that.

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jitsi meet/mumble (here is web interface too)/owncasy

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