@potemkin_ai in case you didn’t get a chance to find it (regarding the homeserver caveats):
By default, the app expects you to have a Matrix homeserver (such as Synapse) installed locally and running on port 8008…
Element Call requires a homeserver with registration enabled without any 3pid or token requirements, if you want it to be used by unregistered users…
Therefore, to use a self-hosted homeserver, this is recommended to be a new server where any user account created has not joined any normal rooms anywhere in the Matrix federated network.
It is for this reason that Element Call, while a robust and impressive solution the Matrix ecosystem, isn’t really a replacement (yet) for similar services. That being said, when deployed as part of an integrated Element Matrix solution such as Element Server Suite alongside Element X, it is incredible.
Jitsi Meet VideoBridge is crashing anytime more than two people join on any service that used it. It’s good that Element was working on Element Call before that. @girish and @nebulon, how was Cloudron able to run Jitsi so smoothly before when no other service could? Is that why the Cloudron version remained an older version?
