BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning
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Hi @ei8fdb,
@ei8fdb said in BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning:
I've been using Kopano, but I'm not liking it too much.
You've mentioned in another topic that you are working in UX design. I would be very interested to learn why you are "not liking it too much". You can reach me through feedback at kopano dot com.
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@ei8fdb said in BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning:
Hi all, is there any update on a BBB app?
I'm assuming there wont be any progress until there is a stable 2.3 release which runs on ubuntu 18.04. Packaging a Cloudron app before then wouldn't really be possible because Cloudron needs ubuntu 18.04.
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I am currently working on the greenlight Cloudron App for BigBlueButton.
So far the basic functionality is working fine but the ldap-auth is giving me trouble.Right now the /app/code/bin/start script writes these variables
sed -i -e "s/LDAP_SERVER=.*/LDAP_SERVER=$CLOUDRON_LDAP_SERVER/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_PORT=.*/LDAP_PORT=$CLOUDRON_LDAP_PORT/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_BASE=.*/LDAP_BASE=$CLOUDRON_LDAP_USERS_BASE_DN/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_BIND_DN=.*/LDAP_BIND_DN=$CLOUDRON_LDAP_BIND_DN/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_PASSWORD=.*/LDAP_PASSWORD=$CLOUDRON_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD=/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_METHOD=.*/LDAP_METHOD=plain/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_UID=.*/LDAP_UID=cn/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_AUTH=.*/LDAP_AUTH=simple/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_FILTER=.*/LDAP_FILTER=\(\&\(objectclass=user\)\(\|\(username=%uid\)\(mail=%uid\)\)\)/g" /app/data/.env \ && sed -i -e "s/LDAP_ATTRIBUTE_MAPPING=.*/LDAP_ATTRIBUTE_MAPPING=uid=uid;name=displayname;email=mail;nickname=givenName;/g" /app/data/.envBut the LDAP Login fails.
INFO: [af608168-79eb-41e2-818c-1e514f0306bd] method=POST path=/auth/ldap format=html controller=SessionsController action=ldap status=302 duration=17.26 view=0.00 db=0.71 location=https://greenlight.stage.gzevd.de/ldap_signin host=greenlight INFO: [70994248-8131-4f51-bfdb-db159292bca0] method=GET path=/ldap_signin format=html controller=SessionsController action=ldap_signin status=200 duration=21.65 view=15.03 db=0.86 host=greenlightMaybe someone can help out?
I just pushed my work here: https://git.cloudron.io/BrutalBirdie/greenlight-app
ps: Please ignore my.gitlab-ci.ymlthis is for my own gitlab for deploying and testing the App.EDIT:
Thanks @nebulon
TheLDAP_UIDwas wrong. Has to beusername
And the Filter can be deleted.
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@BrutalBirdie this is great, thanks!
I'm assuming you're using BigBlueButton 2.3-alpha-2 as the basis for this?
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@BrutalBirdie Great news. So greenlight (as one of different other frontends for BigBlueButton) can be used for videoconferencing & user management. While BBB is installed on a different VM or bare metal. And we can use the built in TURN server on Cloudron. Top!
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I'm assuming you're using BigBlueButton 2.3-alpha-2 as the basis for this?@jdaviescoates the Greenlight App is just the front end for BigBlueButton.
As @luckow mentioned BBB can be installed anywhere and Greenlight is just the front end which connects to a specific BBB instance or cluster to provide a UI etc. -
I would like someone to review my greenlight-app.
Just heads up this is my first app for Cloudron so I expect some issues but I will be happy to fix and learn from them.
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I took a brief look at the app and overall it appears to work. Thanks a lot!
Some things to improve:
- I was not sure how to login with the pre-setup admin, since I didn't know the admin email address
- The tests need also test admin login
- The tests need some code cleanup
- Since it is only the webfrontend as far as I can tell, the icon has to somehow reflect this
- The postinstall docs need to mention the fact that the backend has to be adjusted to not use the default test backend
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@nebulon said in BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning:
I took a brief look at the app and overall it appears to work. Thanks a lot!
Some things to improve:
- I was not sure how to login with the pre-setup admin, since I didn't know the admin email address
- The tests need also test admin login
- The tests need some code cleanup
- Since it is only the webfrontend as far as I can tell, the icon has to somehow reflect this
- The postinstall docs need to mention the fact that the backend has to be adjusted to not use the default test backend
- The Admin E-Mail address is the
Mail FROM Addressaka.CLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_USERNAMEvariable from e-mail addon also noted in thePOSTINSTALL.md. As far as I am aware of I can not write thePOSTINSTALL.mddynamically to display the envCLOUDRON_MAIL_SMTP_USERNAME.
So either I have to do a better job to explain how to get the E-Mail address from Terminal or the log or use a static e-mail address.
What would be the status quo to for this type of issue? - Will add the test for admin login as well (above issue again, hmm so static admin e-mail would be better?)
- Understandable
- Greenlight has no own Icon sadly, I would suggest the BBB Icon but in Green?
- Will add that.
Cheers.
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@nebulon said in BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning:
For the email address, we use admin@server.local in such a case. Hopefully it is possible to change this later by the user, just like the pre-setup password?
Yes e-mail and password can be changed.
And I will useadmin@server.local.Thanks for the input.
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@nebulon Changes pushed.
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@BrutalBirdie said in BigBlueButton - web conferencing system for on-line learning:
@jdaviescoates the Greenlight App is just the front end for BigBlueButton.
As @luckow mentioned BBB can be installed anywhere and Greenlight is just the front end which connects to a specific BBB instance or cluster to provide a UI etc.Ah, yes. I actually realised Greenlight is just a front end because it's what we as the front end for the https://meet.coop BBB server.
I was just secretly hoping that because you'd posted about it in this thread about BBB itself, you were working on a package that included BBB itself too!
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Hey @luckow can you share your insights about BBB as App in Cloudron?
Referring to this conversation:
@jdaviescoates said in Cloudron 5.6.2:
@BrutalBirdie said in Cloudron 5.6.2:
I remember a conversation about BBB as App not being a good idea.
It could possibly be that BBB recommends bare metal servers because freeswitch (which it depends on) works best like that?
https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.2/install.html#minimum-server-requirements
But at the same time I have also heard of people using BBB on a VPS without any real issue.
I'd definitely love to have a BBB app!
And I think that once 6.0 with it's unified dashboard (whatever that exactly turns out to be) is out it'll also be easier to have a whole separate VPS dedicated to just Cloudron + BBB, which would help too I imagine.
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Is the development still going on? I host my church meetings in bbb so I need it like 3 times a week. I currently have a extra server for that which costs a lot. Would be nice to have it in Cloudron directly
I found a container directly from BBB https://hub.docker.com/r/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
Although they say not suitable for production use, I would still love it use it. Did someone try it? I can't get it to run on docker. -
@cyberfreakde I don't think anyone has started to package BBB for Cloudron yet as there isn't a stable BBB release that runs on Ubuntu 18.04 yet...
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@jdaviescoates But if it is a docker container? I think it doesn't matter.
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2.3-alpha-4 is out:
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.3-alpha-4
