

After you have created the conference room, any users can join, as long as they have the unique address and the optional password. This is not ideal for a server that is publicly available on the internet so you will also configure Jitsi Meet so that only registered users can create new conference rooms. The default configuration allows anyone to create a new conference room. In this tutorial, you will install and configure a Jitsi Meet server on Ubuntu 18.04. With Jitsi you can be sure that your private information stays that way. The benefit of a Jitsi conference is that all your data only passes through your server, and the end-to-end TLS encryption ensures that no one can snoop on the call.

A Jitsi Meet server provides multi-person video conference rooms that you can access using nothing more than your browser and provides comparable functionality to a Zoom or Skype conference call. Jitsi Meet is an open-source video-conferencing application based on WebRTC.

It will hide warnings in Chrome.The author selected the Open Internet/Free Speech Fund to receive a donation as part of the Write for DOnations program. From the Jibri README.md file:Īdd chrome managed policies file and set CommandLineFlagSecurityWarningsEnabled to false. Newer versions of Chrome require an additional step. The following video tutorial describes the steps involved in setting up one or more Jibri instances on other servers for recording Jitsi Meet sessions in ISLE: Jibri for Jitsi Recordings + Live Streaming (optional)

Refer to the version of the file inside the etc/jitsi-meet folder of this repository for the Jitsi interface configuration used in ISLE. To change the default appearance of Jitsi meet, the interface_config.js file in /usr/share/jitsi-meet should be updated. Make sure that the Prosody app_id and app_secret match corresponding appId and appSecret fields in the credentials/jitsi.json file of the cloned isle-server repository.įinally, the server field in credentials/jitsi.json should be set to the FQDN of the Jitsi Meet instance. Change the Prosody configuration to use JSON web tokens for authentication.
