multiparty-meeting

A WebRTC meeting service using mediasoup.

Try it online at https://letsmeet.no. You can add /roomname to the URL for specifying a room.

Features

• Audio/Video
• Chat
• Screen sharing
• File sharing
• Different layouts
• Internationalization support

Docker

If you want the automatic approach, you can find a docker image here.

Ansible

If you want the ansible approach, you can find ansible role here.

Manual installation

• Prerequisites: Currently multiparty-meeting will only run on nodejs v10.* To install see here here.

$ sudo apt install npm build-essential redis

• Clone the project:

$ git clone https://github.com/havfo/multiparty-meeting.git
$ cd multiparty-meeting

• Copy server/config/config.example.js to server/config/config.js :

$ cp server/config/config.example.js server/config/config.js

• Copy app/public/config/config.example.js to app/public/config/config.js :

$ cp app/public/config/config.example.js app/public/config/config.js

• Edit your two config.js with appropriate settings (listening IP/port, logging options, valid TLS certificate, don't forget ip setting in last section in server config: (webRtcTransport), etc).

• Set up the browser app:

$ cd app
$ npm install
$ npm run build

This will build the client application and copy everythink to server/public from where the server can host client code to browser requests.

• Set up the server:

$ cd ..
$ cd server
$ npm install

Run it locally

• Run the Node.js server application in a terminal:

$ cd server
$ npm start

• Note: Do not run the server as root. If you need to use port 80/443 make a iptables-mapping for that or use systemd configuration for that (see further down this doc).
• Test your service in a webRTC enabled browser: https://yourDomainOrIPAdress:3443/roomname

Deploy it in a server

• Stop your locally running server. Copy systemd-service file multiparty-meeting.service to /etc/systemd/system/ and check location path settings:

$ cp multiparty-meeting.service /etc/systemd/system/
$ edit /etc/systemd/system/multiparty-meeting.service

• Reload systemd configuration and start service:

$ systemctl daemon-reload
$ systemctl start multiparty-meeting

• If you want to start multiparty-meeting at boot time:

$ systemctl enable multiparty-meeting

Ports and firewall

• 3443/tcp (default https webserver and signaling - adjustable in server/config.js)
• 4443/tcp (default npm start port for developing with live browser reload, not needed in production environments - adjustable in app/package.json)
• 40000-49999/udp/tcp (media ports - adjustable in server/config.js)

Load balanced installation

To deploy this as a load balanced cluster, have a look at HAproxy.

Learning management integration

To integrate with an LMS (e.g. Moodle), have a look at LTI.

TURN configuration

• You need an additional TURN-server for clients located behind restrictive firewalls! Add your server and credentials to app/config.js

Authors

• Håvar Aambø Fosstveit
• Stefan Otto
• Mészáros Mihály

This started as a fork of the work done by:

• Iñaki Baz Castillo [website|github]

License

MIT

Contributions to this work were made on behalf of the GÉANT project, a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 731122 (GN4-2). On behalf of GÉANT project, GÉANT Association is the sole owner of the copyright in all material which was developed by a member of the GÉANT project.

GÉANT Vereniging (Association) is registered with the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam with registration number 40535155 and operates in the UK as a branch of GÉANT Vereniging. Registered office: Hoekenrode 3, 1102BR Amsterdam, The Netherlands. UK branch address: City House, 126-130 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1PQ, UK.