Who wants to experiment with something right now? I want to test audio calling over Iroh using this repo: https://github.com/n0-computer/callme
If you are keen, clone it, build it, and run it (callme-egui) and then dial me at: b0ec00ba45a636ec0c8d5e22753a5d72ca7f4f41345e648fa3df44f44f720565
I'll leave it running for 30 minutes and then if nobody called me I'll kill it. It's a very sketchy barebones thing, I'm not even sure if it "rings" when you call.
Oh man. I just went to bed or I'd test with you. Goodnight, Mike.
Thanks Derek. Get some rest.
Unsure whether it’s actually trying to connect. I’m using the cli version and it’s dumping a lot of warnings to the terminal
I tried to connect 2 active calls, probably broke it. I'll drop and you can try again.
Ok I'm shutting it off. I had one call worked perfectly, and one where I could not hear the caller and they said I was choppy.
What do you think of Iroh?
So far I like it.
QUIC with quinn? Sweet.
ed25519? Sweet. Probably what we should do now as post-quantum stuff has significant costs.
Rust? Sweet.
Hole Punching? Suprising. I didn't think holes could be punched as frequently/successfully as they seem to claim.
Relaying? OK given it is a fallback and you can run your own.
Open Source? Sweet.
TLS with rustls? Sweet.
Pkarr into mainline DHT for decentralized lookups? It functions well.
I don't have much to complain about.
So this uses RTP over QUIC which is over UDP packets, and the connection is established with Iroh which *can* be direct p2p but also can be relayed (they say hole punching rates are high)... but encrypted (I presume) so that the relay doesn't see the traffic. The QUIC connection is end-to-end and tunnelled, and the relay knows who is talking and how many bytes, but the traffic is encrypted.
too late – try again some time
I'm back online, callme: 38808efd8efe07f33901ae51d59f2c7dc188bcd27b2cffd7d83c41cf02ae5b32
so i hear you
Possibly the network isn't very good, possibly it had to relay us to holepunch. I might fork the code and make some kind of indicator showing if the connection is direct or not.
after closing a call I kept hearing you, so I imagine my play back got way behind somehow, local buffering or bandwidth
I'm compiling with relay disabled. I'm curious if will connect directly to my IPv6 and not need relaying.
Try again here, less likely to work though: 7b705d63812b300bb058901f4c7a5762f744c15970d145a7be75e7384d4229ad
i hear you
