![]() You can check out the project on the Jitsi GitHub repository, but this tutorial will enable you to host your own version of this application. You might find this useful if you are looking for tools to help you and your teams as you work remotely. Jitsi is an open source web conference application built using JavaScript. The rest of this post is a technical walk-through of how you can host your own instances of Jitsi to enable this. Jitsi is one such open source project that enables a rich online web conferencing capability. Some business, however, may prefer to use open source technologies to enable this. With Amazon Chime, you have the flexibility to choose the features that you need for online meetings, video conferencing, and business calling, and pay only when you use them. It allows you to meet, chat, and place business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a single application. Amazon Chime is a communications service hosted on AWS that lets you get started in just a few clicks. If your business needs to scale to support hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously or does not want to deploy and manage new web services for this purpose, consider using Amazon Chime. Many teams choose to use managed solutions to enable collaboration. There are many options that customers have, so this post will help provide you with some options if you are looking. Next, with your fav text editor open the file in the ‘chrome’ directory called manifest.Teams across the world are looking for solutions that help them to work and collaborate online in these unprecedented times. Visit this page – – and clone the repo or download it as a zip. I haven’t tried for Firefox but the following works for Chrom(e)ium. This is true for Firefox and Chrome/Chromium. However this is domain specific so you have to download the extension and configure it, then compile it and then load it into your extensions. Essentially you have to install an extension in your browser that allows desktop sharing permissions. Ha.just when you thought it was so, so, easy! It’s actually pretty easy but it’s not well documented. Then navigate to your domain prefixed by https and it should work. You*may* need to restart jitsi to do that try this: /etc/init.d/jitsi-videobridge start Follow the instructions and it ‘just works’. ![]() The script should just ask you for a valid email address. So to get it running do this (as root or using sudo): cd /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/ On Ubuntu you can find it in /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/ There is a nice script for it which is already present but you need to find it. LetsencryptĪlso easy, except it doesn’t say anywhere how to do it. Thanks to Juan Gutierrez for working out the above changes to the files. ![]() The copy the first one to this file /etc/jitsi/videobridge/config where and uncomment the secret, eg: # sets the shared secret used to authenticate to the XMPP serverĭo the same for the second secret by adding it to this file /etc/jitsi/jicofo/config, eg: # sets the secret used to authenticate as an XMPP component Open the file located at /etc/prosody/conf.d/.cfg.lua, it should look something like this: Component "jitsi-videobridge."Ĭhange both secrets to a random string of the same length. ![]() ) that you add the above subdomains on top of that eg not Make sure that if your Jitsi-meet is already using a subdomain (eg. Not mentioned in the rest of the docs is this….you need to set up several sub-domains, namely: Use this: echo 'deb unstable/ ' > /etc/apt//jitsi-unstable.list We couldn’t get them to work with conferences – we could only get 1 person in a meeting which…er… isn’t a meeting! So, instead use the unstable sources, which means don’t use this: echo 'deb stable/ ' > /etc/apt//jitsi-stable.list Working out letsencrypt is soso documented but also easy, working out how to get desktop sharing working is barely documented. ![]()
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