Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by lloeki on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:25AM (#22626146)

> Sign on with Google

Game over. Zoom requires no account to join a meeting and I just learned a couple of days ago it even works in the browser (toggle in the account settings of the one starting the meeting)

I even plugged a Logitech c920 webcam in my Xbox One and did a meeting this way using Edge. Sadly the audio API seems unsupported in that Edge so I had to join the audio through another means.

> VS Zoom

> Don't have to fix a schedule. Remotehour enables you to connect when you're online on the app.

Give someone your fixed Personal ID and they can call you anytime.

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Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by Vinnl on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:58AM (#22626982)

> it even works in the browser

Only in Chrome, unfortunately, and it's severely limited at that. The most limiting factor is that you can only see one other participant at a time.

Additionally, Zoom's past attempt to prevent you from uninstalling part of their software is extra reason to only use the Chrome version, if any: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20407233

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Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by lloeki on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:45AM (#22645521)

Ah, tested it and it behaves the same WRT audio in all browsers but Chrome (so works, except audio). So that's not Edge on Xbox One as the culprit but Zoom implementing a Chrome-only audio API.

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Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by grepfru_it on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:05AM (#22627584)

You can create a new meeting where that ID can be used to connect at anytime.

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Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by shyamady on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:42AM (#22626230)

Thank you so much for your feedback :)

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Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by lloeki on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:50AM (#22645534)

You’re welcome. You could mandate the "meeting creator" to have an account, then have a (constant or ephemeral) ID/password that people can use to join without an account. Also, Zoom IDs being digits has the advantage that they’re super easy to communicate to attendees and don’t expose your account/email/whatever.

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Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by shyamady on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:33PM (#22629693)

Multiple authentications are important. I know Zoom's personal ID, but it's not dedicated to always-on. For realizing the always-on room, showing the real-time status is necessary I suppose.

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Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by mhensley on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:39AM (#22626858)

Zoom in the browser is limited to 360p unfortunately :/

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Re:Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytim... by lloeki on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:46AM (#22645526)

Didn't look like so in my testing, it looked like at least 720p.

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