[bleepblorp]

I've repeatedly tried, but I have not been able to get Jami to work. At all.

Text messages sent between a Linux PC and an Android device are delivered less than 25% of the time. Neither audio or video calls will connect in either direction.

There are several open bugs on the Jami Gitlab page regarding similar problems on Android but there are no fixes available.

I can't say if Jami is useful in situations where both endpoints are computers and/or iOS devices, but it's completely useless for use cases where one of the parties involved in a communication could be using an Android device.

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Are there any working ad free, commercial surveillance free, video chat tools out there? I'm currently self-hosting Jitsi Meet, but that has no video support on Safari and has an artificial video quality limit of 360p on mobile devices. Is there anything better?

[tga]

Nextcloud Talk is pretty painless to install and mostly works. Last problems I remember were with with clients not always ringing and connecting, especially over 4G. I've used it with family for 1-1 video calls for a while and it was good enough.

https://nextcloud.com/talk/

[sk2020]

Mumble is fine if you can give up the video portion. My work uses Zoom, but, frankly a conference call would always suffice. I’m very skeptical of the value-add of video in meetings.

[josteink]

> Are there any working ad free, commercial surveillance free, video chat tools out there?

Matrix.

https://matrix.org/

[skykooler]

Matrix is not, in and of itself, a video chat protocol; the clients that support video use Jitsi for it.

[terhechte]

I have no problems with iOS to iOS and iOS to Raspberry Pi. Compiled it for Raspberry Pi myself.

For the self-compiled one I initially set up the dependencies in the wrong way and the connection wouldn’t work, but I got help on the Gitlab page.

[anigbrowl]

Qtox seems functional and stable but not very popular. https://qtox.github.io/