Mobile: Answer & Manage Calls on Desktop Devices

[trymeouteh]

I suggested the overlay feature which I do understand is not easy, an alternative would be to be able to manage calls on your desktop Ping app from your mobile Ping app.

• Answer calls on the mobile app but set the answer device to be the desktop computer
• End calls on the desktop from your mobile device
• Mute, unmute, invite, etc from your mobile device to the current ongoing call on your desktop.
• Remote connection between mobile device and desktop device is E2EE
• Remote connection between mobile device and desktop device is P2P

This way you can use your gaming headset on your computer and have the call on the computer but be able to control it in-game using your mobile device as a remote control.

I do think this wireless remote control feature from your phone to the desktop should be done P2P (Phone to computer). Even if this is done over the local network and is encrypted for additional privacy.

https://github.com/mirdaki/ping/issues/16

[mirdaki]

Oh I really like this approach! Complicated, but with probably less issues than the desktop overlay and it might even be a more natural interaction. Very good idea. Thank you for sharing!

[jasikpark]

A la OBS websocket basically? https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-websocket-remote-control-obs-studio-from-websockets.466/ -- How you set it up on OBS is the phone app uses the camera to scan a code on the desktop app and then they open an encrypted websocket connection with each other.

[mirdaki]

That does look like a promising approach. I was thinking it might be possible to use the Matrix protocol itself to setup the connection, but I haven't looked into the details of that yet. Good to know that this sort of thing is definitely feasible.

[trymeouteh]

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/10309

I created this issue on the Matrix synapse github which if created, will be a protocol for this feature to work with multiple clients.