Uly.me

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Video Conferencing

Due to the Covid-19 lockdown, here are several video conferencing options.

  • Microsoft Skype – been around for a long time.
  • Microsoft Teams – Microsoft wants everyone to switch to Teams.
  • Google Meet – Uses the webRTC protocol. Video calls up to 10 people.
  • Discord – Popular with gamers. Video chat capable up to 9 people.
  • Zoom – Got really hot, then took a dive due to zoombombing.
  • Chime – Amazon Web Services video chat.
  • Webex – Cisco’s video conferencing.

This is not an extensive list, but are the popular options.

Believe it or not, I have all on my work laptop except for Discord.

TLK.IO Embed

tlk.io is a simple chat page that you can embed on your site. If all you are seeing is a blank screen, I may have a fix for it. I don’t think it’s documented anywhere. I did not see it on tlk.io’s website. Here’s the code that they want you to embed. Of course, you have to use your own data-channel instead of the default “hey.”

<div id="tlkio" data-channel="hey" style="width:100%;height:400px;"></div>
<script async="" src="http://tlk.io/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

The above code will not work if your site is secured via SSL. You’ll need to change the embed.js reference to https. In this case, it would be something like this. 

<div id="tlkio" data-channel="hey" style="width:100%;height:400px;"></div>
<script async="" src="https://tlk.io/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

The code will work in WordPress as well.