Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?

• prosody-docker

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  Docker image building system for the Prosody XMPP server

  

XMPP(aka Jabber), specifically Prosody. https://github.com/prosody/prosody-docker/ Then any XMPP client will work.

• Oragono

  20 2,145 8.4 Go

  A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go.

  

You could also go IRC. Ergo server is simple (https://github.com/ergochat/ergo) and there are clients for phones. Text only which maybe is ok.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Prosody IM

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  IMPORTANT: due to a drive failure, as of 13-Mar-2021, the Mercurial repository had to be re-mirrored, which changed every commit SHA. The old SHAs and trees are backed up in the vault branches. Please migrate to the new branches as soon as you can.

If you are really set on a LAN-only setup you could look at Prosody (combined with an Android app such as Conversations) which Snikket is based upon. It's not as "ready to go, out of the box" as Snikket and therefore requires a slightly higher skill level, but in exchange it is a lot more customizable and adaptable to different kinds of deployment scenarios.

• Conversations

  58 4,210 0.0 Java

  Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android

If you are really set on a LAN-only setup you could look at Prosody (combined with an Android app such as Conversations) which Snikket is based upon. It's not as "ready to go, out of the box" as Snikket and therefore requires a slightly higher skill level, but in exchange it is a lot more customizable and adaptable to different kinds of deployment scenarios.

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