welcome to 2017, when two people with devices called "phones" can't successfully make an audio call with each other
damn what the fuck google
@rey if you think thats bad, try getting audio to your desktop computer (that has bluetooth, wifi, etc) without using line-in
@nire oh i have that part just fine
alas, hangouts is abysmal over mobile networks like the one she's on, and duo is better but they apparently forgot to support desktop
and for some reason plugging in earbuds cuts out the mic on my phone, so i had to actually hold the phone up to my ear to hear anything
we gave up cuz she had to hold the phone up to her mouth for me to hear anything, which... well, the reason we weren't texting is cuz she's driving
@rey To heck with this "phone" thing, go Zello and use it like an HT as $DEITY intended :P
@nivex looks almost great, but how do i use it on my PC
@rey Sadly the desktop is only Windows. I wonder if it would run in WINE.
@nivex i will report back
@nivex HOLY FUCK I THINK IT WORKS IN WINE
@rey Interesting! This thread's a bit of a trainwreck:
https://support.zello.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/223147947-port-Zello-to-Linux
tl;dr: Worked for some but not all.
@nivex oh yuck, i can only be signed in from one device at a time apparently
at least there are groups apparently?
@rey Yeah, I noticed the one device limit, but it kinda makes sense. Multi-device sync is kind of a pain to implement.
I have a channel set up but I've never had more than two people in it :)
@rey I have not tested, but wire.com claims to support calls in-browser with WebRTC, so that's another possibility.
@rey Just tested https://app.wire.com/ on my laptop. Firefox never connected my outbound call but accepted incoming. Chromium worked just fine.
@rey specifically, all of the audio, like what you'd pipe through bluetooth headphones