In reply to Dean Walusimbi.

Hi Dean can I contact to you? In my country we have the same situation with the computers acceses, and i have a graeat idea for improve this.

From my perspective, what is clearly needed here is a FOSS alternative to the proprietary ZOOM application. Our local (Houston, TX) 继j女调教手册(h) Jam has been using ZOOM, and it is clearly a clunky, inefficient web application that works fitfully at best, has a rather poorly designed user interface, and requires payment (non-trivial) for meetings lasting longer than 40 minutes. Using this application on a 继j女调教手册(h) Pi clearly requires a 4B with at least 4Gb of RAM, plus a webcam, plus a relatively high resolution screen. If we wish (and I believe we do) to use teleconferencing regularly for education, a better platform is needed, something along the lines of the original Pi-Top, with a webcam built in, or a tablet-like device with webcam and a stand. The Pi4 has enough compute power for this application, especially if the software can be simplified and made to run under a different internet-compatible network stack. It is possible that the needed software already exists in some form, possibly needing to be adapted to fit this purpose. ZOOM has shown us what is possible; better hardware and software can potentially make tele-education much more widely available. There is plenty of good to excellent educational content out there. Let us concentrate on getting it more efficiently to the learners.

Jenna

I love my RasPi OS! It came with 102 issues of MagPi and 40+ issues of Hackspace, and Chromium. I won’t be changing!

For my Pi400 I have just bought an LG 22inch for AU$111 delivered – it is very good!

Hey Jack, no doub’t that better analysis is needed, but i don’t think that network speed is the problem. As i wrote earlier, i just changed the OS on the pie, and works fine now. I’ve done no change to my network, or internet speed. that’s one of the great things about Rpis, just change the SD card and it’s another enviroment all together. So basically it’s an SD card for every purpose you need.

Just wondering if the people that declare success running Zoom on RPi, have very high speed network connections? Too many times, developers and test groups have high bandwidth Gig fiber networks. Then when the commoners with marginal throughput and sharing with others in the home can’t get the fixes to work are left in the cold. Better analysis of the problem is needed.