Video Conference with Jitsi

1. Installation:


Operating system used Debian 8

Add the repository

echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list
wget -qO -  https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | apt-key add -

Update the package lists

apt-get update

Install Jitsi Meet

apt-get -y install jitsi-meet
 
During the installation, you will be asked to enter the hostname of the 
Jitsi Meet instance. If you have a FQDN hostname for the instance 
already set up in DNS, enter it there. If you don't have a resolvable 
hostname, you can enter the IP address of the machine (if it is static 
or doesn't change).
 

Open a conference

Launch a web browser (Chrome, Chromium or latest Opera) and enter in the URL bar the hostname (or IP address) you used in the previous step.

SSL Certificate

If you have you sign certificate just rename with domain.name.crt and domain.name.key and copy to /var/lib/prosody/

ex.
conference.example.com.crt  conference.example.key


Allow External people to use jitsi via NAT

At this moment you jitsi meeting works perfect in you network if you want to expose the conference software via NAT you need to add the following line into the videobridge sip-communicator.properties configuration on /etc/jitsi/videobridge/sip-communicator.properties:

org.jitsi.impl.neomedia.transform.srtp.SRTPCryptoContext.checkReplay=false
org.jitsi.videobridge.NAT_HARVESTER_LOCAL_ADDRESS=<Local.IP.Address>
org.jitsi.videobridge.NAT_HARVESTER_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=<Public.IP.Address>
 

Customize for Rebranding

 
You can customize jisti with the following  files, this files are rewrite after any upgrade of jitsi
just remember this. 

Go to /usr/share/jitsi-meet

There you can found interface_config.js in this file the interesting part
is as follow:

You can replace on it
DEFAULT_REMOTE_DISPLAY_NAME: "Fellow Participant",
DEFAULT_LOCAL_DISPLAY_NAME: "Participant",
JITSI_WATERMARK_LINK:https://jitsi.org 
SHOW_BRAND_WATERMARK: true
 SHOW_POWERED_BY: false
 BRAND_WATERMARK_LINK: http://www.yourdomain.com

SHOW_JITSI_WATERMARK: false,

 To show you logo just make a copy the watermark.png image to the name rightwatermak.png in the images directory and replace this with you own logo


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