chatlab

A place to store our adventure in self--hosted chats and disasters

ChatLab is the super boring name I found to identify the project of setting-up a software and hardware solution aimed to control quite a complex place:

• a Fabrication Laboratory (full of different machines, with specific access rights and insurance layers
• an apartment (more about this later)
• an office

Now, this document is (hopefully) going to be edited several times to meet several needs, which are:

• hosting a chat, with different channels, à la slack
• control the access to the building, from a fablab member, for a professional, from somebody (rasidency, traveller) staying in the house
• sorta of adding some surveillance flavour to the place (both active and passive, bots sensors and cameras)
• hosting a internal video-com for the apartment and the
• add more...

Proposals:

• Rocket.chat is meeting most of our needs
• It goes even on a Raspberry PI
• If hosted on a proper server (not an rpi) it has this interesting live-chat service to put a customer / user in contact with a specific channel
• is (hu)bot-ready, so we won't have to migrate several telegram groups we can hook some on a specific channel
• we can merge this user database with the one from labAdmin project
• we can have a basic (and role specific) surveillance infrastructure on specific channels