Show HN: PagerNation – A simple, free, and secure browser-based intercom | Hacker News Reader

Show HN: PagerNation – A simple, free, and secure browser-based intercom

pagernation.com

69 pointstruetaurus26 comments

Another idea.

Show who is talking currently. If there are more than 2 people in a convo it would be nice to have a visual of everyone there and who is talking when.

Also this would be an interesting feature for people who do podcasts and want to involve their listeners, however, there should be a way to limit or a way for the owner of the channel to grant privileges to when people can talk so not everyone jumps in at once.

great ideas. Already have something in the works along these lines!

Added who is currently talking! and able to see who is in the room!

Can I use this to notify people in a building that food is being served out in front of the building?(shelter)

It is not the exact use case I was thinking about but I suppose it could. All I would say is try it out :)

Adapt UI for mobile phones with huge easy accessible "talk" button, make title ant instructions smaller, to fit in tiny mobile screens.

good point! haven't optimized really yet for mobile

Just made it a little more mobile friendly!

How about adding keyboard controls? E.g. hold one of keyboard keys to talk, instead mouse button?

also in the backlog! thanks!

Added press space bar to talk!

This does look interesting.

When I tested, I noted a lot of latency. It seems the audio is not sent over WS until the capture is complete.

Even after finishing a recording, the other side did not receive and hear it for up to 20 seconds.

hmm i guess ill have to do some reading. I am using sockets.io and from what I read is it does exactly what you said. First http and then sockets (but i could be wrong). This is anyway been a sideproject of mine to learn about web sockets.

> It seems the audio is not sent over WS until the capture is complete.

The info block indicates this is by design - 20s seems like a lot of latency, but possibly if it's got to pull down the entire audio blob before it can start playing?

Hmm maybe you could explain that further? not sure what you mean? Or do you have any recommendations what this could mean for me to do?

starts clear then it starts to stutter. possibly this happens if one person starts to record while listening to a message.

I am not sure it is that, but I def trying to figure out what is causing it but so far no luck

Any feedback is welcomed :)

One nice feature would be a message when a user is talking/recording their message. Like xyz is talking...

Great idea. It is in my backlog!

Looks like it does not work on Firefox, console shows "uncaught exception: Object" error. And progress bar goes way out of button.

ah thanks for that, haven't tested it in FireFox, will look into that now. Chrome works though.

Which FireFox version? worked for me

Firefox 75.0 (64-bit) on Windows 7 with Tracking Protection and uBlock on. Doesn't work with both turned off either.

Error occurs when microphone is not plugged in and when I deny microphone permission in browser. Probably a very rare case, but my microphone connection is a bit wonky and sometimes I have to re-plug it to work. It would be awesome if your app showed that I might have a problem on my end.

I see cool, ill look into some better error handling!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com