Raspberry Pi + webcam + Zoom etc

[marshbrewer]

What with lockdown, and me not seeing the Scottish side of the family for over a year, including my parents, pub quizzes and so on, we are making a lot of use of Zoom, Facebook messenger, WhatsApp etc

I have a spare raspberry pi that I want to utilise somehow, and was wondering if anyone had set one up along with a usb webcam and their lounge telly to make a sort of conference call system for Zoom etc? Obviously, I could Google it, but I thought I would check the HBF to see if anyone has any pointers?

 

[chopps]

AFAIK there is no ARM Zoom client yet, but you might get the browser plugin going on a limited basis. Laggy video even on RPi 4.

There is a growing demand for a native client but nothing so far.

See here Have you considered building zoom for the Raspberry Pi 4 linux system?

 

[lupinehorror]

apple bringing out the M1 chip may improve ARM support for many apps but as they also ship an emulator i fear that development will be slow. use 4 Pis for various applications but admit they are limited for certain things at the moment.

 

[marshbrewer]

Thanks for the responses gents, looks like it's a non starter at present.

 

[IanG]

You can do this!


BUT running android os on the pi and I have only got messaging working plus I had to get a new sim to activate
So probably right as a non starter at the moment

 

[chopps]

What about Jitsi?
Here’s one implementation Turn a Raspberry Pi, a Webcam and a TV into a video call device

 

[Plumb bob]

My daughter uses a pi4 with a webcam for schooling. The camera has a microphone built in too and it works well on Google classroom in the chromium web browser.
Today she was doing conditioning training for her diving on zoom on it too again in the chromium browser.
It does work the pi4 CPU quite hard, I've not tried a pi3, I've got one spare but I'm not sure when I'll get time to try it.
The camera she uses is a P&U webcam from Amazon.

 

[GeorgieV]

What about Jitsi?
Here’s one implementation Turn a Raspberry Pi, a Webcam and a TV into a video call device

I quite like the Jitsi project. Still don't know why it's not much popular.