VTIRC Story

This version of the DS doorbell supports workout of the peephole metaphor which is bound to the Face link.

Videotelephony meets Internet Relay Chat

Straightforward merge of vendor abstracted VT with conventional IRC servers and clients
with advisement for the 100 in mind.

Anyone can create a jitsi meet which anyone knowing the meet id can join. These meets have limitations which are removed if the creator or joinee is an authenticated user (AKPERSON). This null level of integration is supported with a customized recent version of jitsi supplemented by various DS services for users but like ordinary IRC available free to anonymous users in the wild with quota and permissions limitations as is the case with common videotelephony carriers.

While DS IRC and native (jitsi) VT are modified, neither IRC or VT infra are intended to be modified in general so this story is based on the eventual integration of other and 3rd party IRC and VT on a generic first API.

OTR Feature

The OTR protocol is supported when the VT backend is Jitsi as well as the DS provisioned versions of the following:

• bitlbee
• hexchat
• irssi

For each of which the DS provisioned versions are built with the feature.

DevOps users can use MCP station to station channels with OTR messaging. In general this feature is somewhat moot in MCP/DCP channels so I'm not doing there. The Jitsi version of this enabled in the custom jitsi infra and those of third parties will be supported similarly.