Jitsi

Click a link below to join online! Main room used for Tuesday meetings Event Room 1 main events room Event Room 2 / Side Convos for simultaneous events or side conversations. Backup Jitsi Jitsi is a free video chat application that is similar to Zoom but offers added benefits (it's free, open-source, etc.). We use it to live stream meetings and (sometimes) classes and events. (if you want to see more events and classes streamed, please speak up at the Tuesday meetings. Do-ocracy!) Sometimes events or conversations are also held on video via a chat application called Discord (FYI, is closed-source not encrypted and does collect and store all your data for 2 years or more): https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Discord

Rooms

There are a few regular and persistent rooms regularly on-line. Any room can be created by just specifying a web path to your name of choice, or by entering any value in to the form on the home page and pressing "Start Meeting" https://jitsi.noisebridge.io

hackitorium

Nominally on-line 24/7 with a feed of the Noise_Square_Table from inside 272 Capp St. Weekly meetings are held here Tuesday nights, and there is regular To-Doocratic Thursday Eve.

some admin commands

This looks possibly useful as a crib sheet https://community.jitsi.org/t/how-to-how-to-upgrade-jitsi-meet-monitor-the-logs/73746

Webcam control on Arch (v4l2-ctl)

[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
HD Pro Webcam C920 (usb-0000:00:14.0-3.1):
	/dev/video2
	/dev/video3

Integrated Camera: Integrated C (usb-0000:00:14.0-8):
	/dev/video0
	/dev/video1

[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 --list-ctrls
                     brightness 0x00980900 (int)    : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=128 value=128
                       contrast 0x00980901 (int)    : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=128 value=128
                     saturation 0x00980902 (int)    : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=128 value=128
 white_balance_temperature_auto 0x0098090c (bool)   : default=1 value=1
                           gain 0x00980913 (int)    : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=0 value=0
           power_line_frequency 0x00980918 (menu)   : min=0 max=2 default=2 value=2
      white_balance_temperature 0x0098091a (int)    : min=2000 max=6500 step=1 default=4000 value=4000 flags=inactive
                      sharpness 0x0098091b (int)    : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=128 value=128
         backlight_compensation 0x0098091c (int)    : min=0 max=1 step=1 default=0 value=0
                  exposure_auto 0x009a0901 (menu)   : min=0 max=3 default=3 value=3
              exposure_absolute 0x009a0902 (int)    : min=3 max=2047 step=1 default=250 value=250 flags=inactive
         exposure_auto_priority 0x009a0903 (bool)   : default=0 value=1
                   pan_absolute 0x009a0908 (int)    : min=-36000 max=36000 step=3600 default=0 value=0
                  tilt_absolute 0x009a0909 (int)    : min=-36000 max=36000 step=3600 default=0 value=0
                 focus_absolute 0x009a090a (int)    : min=0 max=250 step=5 default=0 value=0 flags=inactive
                     focus_auto 0x009a090c (bool)   : default=1 value=1
                  zoom_absolute 0x009a090d (int)    : min=100 max=500 step=1 default=100 value=100
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video3 --list-ctrls
[x@replicator ~]$ 

[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -C zoom_absolute
zoom_absolute: 100
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c zoom_absolute=200
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c zoom_absolute=150
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -C zoom_absolute
zoom_absolute: 150
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -C pan_absolute
pan_absolute: 0
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c pan_absolute=3600
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c pan_absolute=-3600
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c pan_absolute=0
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c tilt_absolute=-3600
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c tilt_absolute=-7200
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -C focus_absolute
focus_absolute: 0
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c focus_absolute=50
VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS: failed: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
focus_absolute: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -C focus_auto
focus_auto: 1
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c focus_auto=0
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -C focus_auto
focus_auto: 0
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c focus_absolute=50
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c focus_absolute=20
[x@replicator ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video2 -c focus_absolute=0