Jitsi

[nebulon]

Hi all!

We have managed to get an initial Jitsi package out. It does not yet have LDAP integration, but that will come. Further the STUN and TURN servers are set, but not yet fully working. There is still the port 443 issue for this in certain circumstances. We have to see how far we can get there.

We have published it as unstable for now to gather initial feedback. As always unstable versions might not properly migrate existing data.

Forum section: https://forum.cloudron.io/category/139/jitsi
Docs: https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/jitsi/
App Library: https://www.cloudron.io/store/org.jitsi.cloudronapp.html
Package Repo: https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/jitsi-app

And of course many thanks to @Benoit and https://medias-cite.coop/ for sponsoring the packaging!

[timconsidine]

@nebulon brilliant work !
looking forward to trying it out
(am used to the regular hosted and self-hosted-elsewhere versions)

[girish]

We had our first call yesterday in 'unstable' jitsi, went surprisingly well! no glitches, it was just 3 participants though.

[ei8fdb]

@nebulon said in Jitsi:

We have managed to get an initial Jitsi package out.

great news. i've been looking forward to it. i'm trying it right now.

[ianhyzy]

@nebulon been looking forward to this, thank you everyone!

[A Former User]

I haven't noticed any issues yet. Thanks @staff for all the hard work on this!

[LoudLemur]

Thank you very much indeed! This is a fantastic application to have on Cloudron.

[privsec]

Some great news to hear!

[chetbaker]

this is just great.
thanks all!

[potemkin_ai]

Just in case - it seems like there is still an issue on having Jitsi working in NAT-ed environments (https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/7473/no-sound-in-jitsi/42)

[necrevistonnezr]

A little bit off-topic: Mailbox.org is switching away from Jitsi according to their recent newsletter:

We would like to inform you about an important change to our
video conferencing services. [...] From March 1, 2024, we will only offer OpenTalk and discontinue Jitsi.

Jitsi was once introduced as a temporary solution during the pandemic, but in our opinion is no longer fit for the future in terms of user-friendliness, security security and performance.

[...]

Your advantages with OpenTalk
Compared to Jitsi, OpenTalk offers an intuitive, friendly interface and improved voice and image quality. It can be used directly in the browser as usual. (And what will please technicians: It has a modern software architecture and is written in Rust, a programming language
programming language Rust).

[robi]

@necrevistonnezr Mirotalk is also an alternative

[fbartels]

@necrevistonnezr said in Jitsi:

Mailbox.org is switching away

One bit of context that is not in the post is that OpenTalk is developed by the same people/company that are operating mailbox.org

[robi]

@fbartels Wow they really buried that lead.

After 30m of searching, I found the buried link to the code in their FAQ and it is deployable on Cloudron!

UPDATE: we already have a request for it here.

[potemkin_ai]

What about https://github.com/element-hq/element-call instead?

[robi]

@potemkin_ai Doesn't seem like it's ready standalone: https://github.com/element-hq/element-call#host-it-yourself

[potemkin_ai]

@robi you got to build it first, yep; going to follow that direction soon

[robi]

@potemkin_ai cool, hopefully you can build it without the homeserver caveats.

[potemkin_ai]

@robi hope so; and what are the 'homeserver caveats' you mean?

[robi]

@potemkin_ai they're detailed at the link above