So, I’ve had it up to here (^^^) with the family using WhatsApp, etc and I’m heading off into the land of XMPP to find a better solution.

I’ve got a Pi3 hanging off my pfSense firewall acting as a kinda DMZ box, so thought I could setup an XMPP server on it (Prosody?)

Any advice? Will the Pi crumble (see what I did there) under the pressure of 4 people using it?

Issues with proxying outside with a Lets Encrypt cert on the pfSense box, but maybe not inside the network?

“Better” server software?

Thanks

  • poVoqEnglish
    5•9 months ago

    Currently xmpp voice and video calls are not going through the server at all, so it will work just fine on a RPi3.

    • SolidGrueEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      News to me! Good to know, though.

      I think realtime media routed through the node back when I was running one, but that was quite a while ago now. It wasn’t bad for my crew, but load scales exponentially in those sort of applications as you take on endpoints.

    • SayCyberOnceMoreOPEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Ah, right. I wasn’t sure about that part.

      So, the XMPP server just helps to initiate the connextion between clients then they communicate directly?

      Will that work if someone’s at home (inside the network) and talking to someone outside (via the pfSense proxy)?

      • poVoqEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        For a/v calls yes. You might need to configure a STUN server to help clients find each other if they are behind a NAT.