talKKonnect
A Headless Mumble Client that can function as a Talkie / Intercom / Gateway for Linux or Single Board Computers (IP Radio / Push-to-Talk)
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- What is talKKonnect?
- Installation / Getting started
- Extra Multimedia Features (IP-Speaker)
- Why Was talKKonnect created?
- Building talkkonnect Additional Optional Hardware and Precautions
- Software Configurable Features
- Common Information for the all the Pre-Made Images For Various Hardware Configurations
What is talKKonnect?
talKKonnect is an open-source customizable, headless, self-contained Mumble Push to Talk ( PTT) client.
It was designed for Linux single-board computers (SBCs) such as the Raspberry Pi and Orange Pi. It works equally well on any reasonably modern Linux distribution.
Functionality for SBCs or as a Hardware Appliance:
talKKonnect offers A flexible form factor with an LCD/OLED display, channel and volume control, making it ideal for group communication scenarios. Common use cases include amateur radio enthusiasts, ad-hoc group communications, and replacing expensive commercial intercom systems. Read more about talKKonnect as an appliance and some potential use-cases.
Installation / Getting Started
Diving right in? talKKonnect works on a variety of devices and form factors, and even provides pre-built images for use on common Raspberry Pi or similar single board computer (SBC) architectures.
Functionality and Configurability
Because talKKonnect was originally created as software to power hardware-based IP communication devices, it has extensive optional functionality and configurability for several common hardware devices. See a full overview of talkKonnect configuration and support details
History and Features of talKKonnect
This project was created by Suvir Kumar as a fork of talkiepi by Daniel Chote which was, in turn, a fork of barnard a text basedmumble client. talKKonnect was developed using golang and based on gumble library by Tim Cooper. Read the full history and background of talKKonnect
See a video explanation of the history and reasons for creating talkkonnect
Questions & Contributing
We invite interested individuals to provide feedback and improvements to the project. You can help with creating youtube videos, docummentation, programming, testing and/or feedback of your user experience.
To speak to us you can connect with a standard mumble client (android/iphone/wnidows/linux) to our community server to have a chat or ask questions at mumble.talkkonnect.com port 64738 you can use any username with the password talkkonnect
PTT Voice Chat with us from your PC, Mobile Phone, tablet or talkkonnect on our mumble server mumble.talkkonnect.com port 64738 any username no password required. We are standing by usually on HAM-CB Channel.
Currently we do not have a WIKI so send feedback to [email protected] or open and Issue in github you can also check my blog www.talkkonnect.com for updates on the project
Please visit our blog for our blog or github for the latest source code and our facebook page for future updates and information.
Thank you all for your kind feedback sent along with some pictures and use cases for talkkonnect.
License
talKKonnect is open source and available under the MPL V2.00 license.
[email protected] Updated 27/02/2024 talkkonnect version 2.40.01 is the latest release as of this writing.