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

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by truetaurus • 6 years ago

69 26 6 years ago

pagernation.com

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

Any feedback is welcomed :)

Kim_lian• 6 years ago

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

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

Great idea. It is in my backlog!

butz5• 6 years ago

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

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

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

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

Which FireFox version? worked for me

butz5• 6 years ago

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

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

also in the backlog! thanks!

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

Added press space bar to talk!

butz5• 6 years ago

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

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

good point! haven't optimized really yet for mobile

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

Just made it a little more mobile friendly!

BrandonSmith• 6 years ago

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.

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

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.

adrianpike• 6 years ago

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?

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

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?

modernyogihippy• 6 years ago

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.

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

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

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

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

mieses• 6 years ago

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

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

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

geeeeee• 6 years ago

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

truetaurus15• 6 years ago

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

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