To make my video conferences private and secure I have implemented the open source video conference solution Jitsi on my website. You can now reach it through https://jitsi.arvidortwig.de It’s open source, based on webrtc, secured by ssl (https) and there is no registration neccessary. I also don’t save any logfiles or anything else. Feel free to use it for you corona-conferencing 😉 The android smartphone app is available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jitsi.meet/
Continue reading...March 2020
KODI and Nextcloud
Accessing your Nextcloud Files through Webdav (https) can be quite slow due to the protocol and/or your upstream connection of your nextcloud to the web. It seems to me that if you “mount” the official webdav-path nextcloud is offering into KODI your files are routed through the Internet even when KODI and NC are implemented within the same network. Exchanging the URL with your local NC IP Address and switching to webdav (http) in order to avoid certificate problems is possible but has a negative impact on the speed (i dont know why though). Accessing your files can be done...
Continue reading...Wearing a ‘Open Source’ Smartwatch
If you have considered wearing a smartwatch but were afraid of how your personal / vital data gets handled there might be a solution. On F-Droid there is Gadgetbridge: An app for Android that connects to your smartwatch/Fitnesstracker and analyzes your vital data without using the manufacturers proprietary app or sending it to any other place. Gadgetbridge stores all the data from the watch solely on your phone and works even without internet connection. It tracks your activity and sleep and sends phone notifications to your watch. Gadgetbridge works with a bunch of smartwatches, please check out the website for...
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