MiroTalk Update regularly fails after update

[james]

Hello @mirotalk
Does this have any other effects?

[MiroTalk]

@james said in MiroTalk Update regularly fails after update:

Does this have any other effects?

In theory, it shouldn’t have any other effects, as long as the user can switch between these two modes. I’m not entirely sure why Mediasoup doesn’t use a server SFU by default, but you could ask the Mediasoup support forum for clarification.

[djxx]

Is there any update on this? I can't rely on this app for meeting links because about 75% of the time it's not running properly due to startup failure.

[nebulon]

So this always happens when the app gets updated?

[djxx]

@nebulon It also happens after system updates or restarts. It seems it's a roll of the dice if the ports aren't already taken. Restarting the app doesn't fix it anymore, so now when it crashes I change the SFU TCP/UDP port range to something else and it works when the app restarts.

[robi]

Sounds like a firewall cleanup issue or maybe something in between

[nebulon]

When this happens, can you check which container is occupying those ports?

You can run

docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Ports}}" | grep <portnumber>

which should reveal the container holding on to it.

[MiroTalk]

@djxx said:

Restarting the app doesn't fix it anymore, so now when it crashes I change the SFU TCP/UDP port range to something else and it works when the app restarts.

This issue can occur if another application is already using ports within the 40000–40100 range. To resolve it, you can either change the port range (for example, starting from 25000)

or enable WebRTC server mode in the env (edit it via Cloudron file manager), which requires fewer ports, as described above.

SFU_SERVER=true

Then restart the instance.

Edit: The second option requires implementation on the Cloudron side, as described here:
https://forum.cloudron.io/post/117374

[robi]

Why don't we have the second option as the more reliable packaged default?

[girish]

@djxx I think https://git.cloudron.io/platform/box/-/commit/b08e3a5128cdf2e036523c6d585adb0674ba95bf will help.