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Is there some reasonable way to self host a (secure) voice chat channel?

• denkmoon 1y ago
  Teamspeak
• derkades 1y ago
  Mumble!
  • udev4096 1y ago
    Mumble is awesome but definitely difficult to properly configure. Especially the TLS certs for any reverse proxy won't work directly, there's a hacky way to make it work which I don't fully trust
    • MattJ100 1y ago
      I work on a project in this space, and the endless insistence of people that they have to run clearly non-web things through reverse proxies always amazes me :) Not everything is a web app, and it's trivial these days to obtain certificates, even without a proxy (certbot, etc.). Of course I understand that if you host a lot of web apps, having all web requests routed through a universal proxy is nice for various reasons. But platforms like Discord and such are complex beasts and use more technologies than HTTP(S).
      • udev4096 1y ago
        > I understand that if you host a lot of web apps The only reason. Plus, it's a single source of truth and configuring an auth with a reverse proxy is far easier
• c22 1y ago
  Depending on your definition of reasonable, you could just pipe the audio over SSH: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116919/redirect-sound-microphone-via-ssh-how-to-telephone-via-ssh https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116919/redirect-sou...
  • udev4096 1y ago
    Wow, I never thought you could ssh your audio. That's so fucking awesome
• abdullahkhalids 1y ago
  Just create a second group in signal with your friends called "group X: call only". Then everyone mutes the group (which I think mutes calls as well). Then whenever someone wants to join the "voice chat" they can just initiate a call. If someone else sees and joins, so be it.