Right - ran a search and got no results, so am asking directly
This thing any good? Anyone run it?
Use case: want to give my kid a SEVERELY locked down Moto E (2nd gen) as a Youtube music player device and a “message Daddy” app - strictly wifi / in house only.
The first thing is simple enough. The second thing is…interesting.
I had my local AI do some research and it spat out the above. I don’t think it’s quite right but It looks interesting. Any one use it / can comment? Failing that, can anyone recommend a simple WLAN messaging app that will run on Android 6 / lineageOS? I’m sure I can dig one up but if someone has one running, I’m all ears.
PS: I’m not looking at using a VPS for this…but the above did catch my attention as fairly normie friendly. Might be worth self hosting something like that…
Maybe delta chat could be the right thing? https://delta.chat/
It uses email technology to implement the secure chat
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Never heard of it, but it doesn’t look legit.
I recently set up a similar thing for my own kids with cinny using contnuwuity as a backend. It was a little tricky to get it all working, but runs great. My kids can video and voice call me from home and can’t talk to people not on the server. Cinny is only one of many options for the matrix client. I like it because I can make a consistent experience across platforms, but if you are just using Android, SchildiNext is my favorite client that I tested.
Yeah, I doubt anyone runs it, because if you follow the instructions and click on the link to the server code, it’s just missing. And the empty repository has been sitting there since May… There isn’t any Android app in the Appstore either, so you wouldn’t be able to install anything. Seems all “Circulus” is, is a shiny website with (made-up?) advertisement text.
(And by the way, if you decide to self-host some of the standard open-source messengers… You can always just disable Federation and disallow sign-up. That way XMPP or Matrix won’t be able to connect to anyone else, except the people you invited to your server. And there’s this messenger overview, it doesn’t talk about kids-features, but maybe it’s useful nonetheless: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html )
Hey buddy this doesn’t look like a great service. It isn’t open source but claims to be, and appears to have only been around a couple of months.
A project with a lot of backing called Nextcloud could work for you. It has a service called Nextcloud Talk that you’ll be able to throw on their dumb phone and if you want to you can use it as an alternative to dropbox/onedrive and google docs.
edit: a benefit of nextcloud talk is that your kid won’t be able to add some random person or do anything too nefarious with it and if they did you’d be able to see everything