Jitsi Meet

[imc67]

@girish is there any news? Our experience with Kopano Meet was not succesfull and as mentioned above Jitsi is the best solution in this COVID-19 times.

[yusf]

I’m also awaiting Jitsi. Maybe it would also make sense from a (Cloudron) marketing perspective? Like,

Ready to drop Zoom for something free, unlimited and safe? Host Jitsi Meet yourself in 10 clicks with Cloudron.

[nebulon]

No major news on this so far, unfortunately it is quite the beast to package with a lot of undocumented configuration options, even their own debian packaging scripts are a hit and miss in our experience. Surely it would be good to have and hopefully eventually we will get there.

[yusf]

@nebulon Keep us posted for any aid you need in furthering this endeavor.

[necrevistonnezr]

Office topic: Jitsi gets integrated in the Brave Browser - https://www.ghacks.net/2020/05/27/brave-launches-brave-together-video-calling-in-latest-nightly-version/amp/

[andrewj720]

+1 for Jitsi Meet Server on Cloudron

[stefan.werner]

+1 for Jitsi Meet Server on Cloudron

Especially with user manegement

[rlp10]

+1 for Jitsi Meet on Cloudron

I'm using Kopano and I don't find it to be as reliable for establishing connections as the public Jitsi server. I would far prefer to use my own machine though.

Is this being actively worked on? Can I help at all, say by testing?

Would it help if there was a small bounty for getting it working (if that is appropriate in this community)?

[girish]

We had postponed this a bit because Jitsi support on Firefox was spotty but that seems to be sorted out now - https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758 . (Unrelated, but of course, with all the layoffs at mozilla, I bet it's going to regress more).

[meaculpa]

I'd also +1 Jitsi Meet on Cloudron!! A big "thank you" to the maintainers

[imc67]

Is there any update on this?

The COVID-19 pandemic is (almost everywhere) increasing and measures for working from home are again and/or still there. The public Jitsi service is overloaded so it's very very welcome after all these months to have a Cloudron version of Jitsi-server.

[ericdrgn]

+1

Just another vote in for this. I would love to implement this with my element and matrix instances already on Cloudron. Would be super helpful in these current times.

[jdaviescoates]

@ericdrgn to actually +1 it you need to upvote the original post at the top of the thread

[privsec]

Out of curiosity, is there any progress on adding this app?

[yusf]

@privsec https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/jitsi-app/activity

[privsec]

@yusf I am a web developer. Can I lend a hand at all?

[jdaviescoates]

@privsec have a look at that repo to see if you can pick up where @nebulon and @girish left off?

[hutzacharus]

Hi @nebulon and @girish,
Is the jitsi-meet app still in the backlog and are there any more concrete plans with it?
Did I get it right that a TURN-server is already implemented as an integrated cloudron service?
Would it be possible to install jitsi-meet with docker manually next to cloudron and its apps (and use the TURN-server coming with cloudron, if it does)?
(I actually came here by looking for a (hassle free) way to get nextcloud and jitsi-meet running on a single vServer/VPS. - Do you think this is possible in general, at all?)

Thanks!

[jdaviescoates]

@hutzacharus said in Jitsi Meet:

Did I get it right that a TURN-server is already implemented as an integrated cloudron service?

Yes, but I think it still needs some work to get it right/ more usable, see this post by @girish https://forum.cloudron.io/post/23347

@hutzacharus said in Jitsi Meet:

Would it be possible to install jitsi-meet with docker manually next to cloudron and its apps (and use the TURN-server coming with cloudron, if it does)?

It's generally not a good idea to install other things alongside Cloudron.

@hutzacharus said in Jitsi Meet:

(I actually came here by looking for a (hassle free) way to get nextcloud and jitsi-meet running on a single vServer/VPS. - Do you think this is possible in general, at all?)

That'll be easy once Jitsi has been packaged, and it's still marked as a Work in Progress https://forum.cloudron.io/tags/wip

I'm not sure of the current status, but it doesn't look like there have been any related commits for 4 months:

https://git.cloudron.io/search?search=jitsi

[hutzacharus]

Thanks a lot, @jdaviescoates for the reply and the advice regarding separate installations!
I also saw the activity apparently halted at the jitis-app repo, that's why I was asking. But judging from the cross-linked bbb-thread, there seems to be work still going on in the direction of this app, so this is good news.

However, here is a (possibly naive) thought (without any deeper understanding of the matter):
Since the main problem seems to be to get a TURN server running on the same instance as the other cloudron apps, and since a TURN-server is optional anyway, wouldn't it be possible to include the jitsi-meet app into the cloudron app repository without a TURN server and create an additional repository, say "cloudron_dedicated" or "cloudron_exclusive", with a collection of apps that can only be installed exclusively on a separate/dedicated server? This app repo could include, besides a TURN-server app, also BigBlueButton (which according to their docs also requires a dedicated server to run on) and possibly other apps as well. Does this make any sense?