Instead of having a lot of standalone Ansible roles on my forgejo instance, I have created my own collection.

Let me announce you the first release of the "jriou.general" Ansible collection 🚀 https://git.riou.xyz/jriou/ansible

#selfhosting #homelab #ansible #certbot #coller #firefly #forgejo #galene #golang #navidrome

NEW VIDEO - I Turned FreeBSD Into My Own Zoom Server! (Galene Setup Tutorial) 🚀📹

https://youtu.be/0BjwNCalzBs?si=M5msLe5ocdPu-Ydn via @YouTube
#freebsd #unix #opensource #galene

Thinking of switching to #galene for my games again.

Actually, I was thinking of running a #mumble server, but I wanted a web interface so my kid's friends could use it without installing anything, but for some reason I failed with that.

Galène on the other hand is easy to install and does handle a lot of participants in a video chat without issues.
The UI is a bit barebones though.

https://github.com/jech/galene

Testing Galene videoconference server software

During the Covid-19 pandemic Jitsi-Meet was one of the more popular software among some people for videoconference calls. However, Jitsi-Meet is not very secure. If people choose a very simple room name and no password then it can happen that suddenly strangers join your video call. Self-hosting and maintaining Jitsi-Meet is also not super easy.

Galene is different because it comes with the feature to create users, and users can have operate privileges to create invite links for other users. The invite links can be time limited.

I’ve tested self-hosting Galene and I was happy to see that it ran pretty well on moderate hardware (VPS with 1 GB RAM, with a swap file. Using Debian Linux as OS).

The question remains how many calls and users it can handle very well.

Galene has community provided packages for Yunohost, Arch Linux (AUR) and FreeBSD. A drawback of Galene is that it appears to be a one person project but there’s many one person projects and software can be forked when a project becomes dormant for some reason.

Off-topic : On the same VPS I’ve also installed Prosody with Yunohost and after getting the DNS settings right, as suggested by Yunohost, video-calls with Conversations IM app worked out of the box. Very cool! Thank you people at Yunohost!!! :)))

#archlinux #freebsd #galene #opensource #selfHosting #yunohost

🎥 Looking to self-host your own video conferencing platform?

Check out our latest blog on how to install and configure Galene, a lightweight video meeting server that runs seamlessly on FreeBSD.

This step-by-step guide walks you through:

Setting up a FreeBSD 14.3 environment
Configuring Galene for your use case
Tips for using ZFS to enhance performance and reliability

📖 Read the full guide:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/how-to-install-and-configure-the-galene-video-meeting-server-on-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #VideoConferencing #Galene

#Galene のサブグループはテスト以外で使ったこと無いんですよね……
いつものミーティングは人数少ないし

[Galene] About subgroups https://lists.galene.org/galene/87ikks[email protected]/T/#u

Skype will shut down soon. I wanted an open source alternative so I tried Galene (https://galene.org/) multiple times to call my dad and it works very well.

For now, I spawn a disposable instance on OVHcloud using OpenTofu and the OpenStack provider. Then I configure the software using Ansible. The code is available here https://git.riou.xyz/jriou/galene-cloud.

Tomorrow, I would like to only host a TURN server on my VPS and self-host galene on my homelab.

#galene #opentofu #openstack #ansible #ovhcloud #homelab