I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption but powerful computer to set up as a video conferencing/communication server at home as a contribution to a very apparent need and as an alternative to FaceTime, Zoom and whatever.
Do people have experience with this? I've tried having a Jitsi Meet instance once and found it difficult to tweak for really good performance.
I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButton - it seems to have everything and promises to be easy to install.
Do anyone have experience running these things for practical use?
Best, Carsten
Am 30.04.20 um 20:39 schrieb Carsten Agger:
I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption...
I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButton - it seems to have everything and promises to be easy to install.
Do anyone have experience running these things for practical use?
I don't have experience in *running* BBB, but in using and I'm very happy with this tool! I know lot of video-conferencing systems and have special requirements, because I'm deaf and for every communication I need to see my sign language interpreters. BBB is the only systems/software I found (and I know a lot with more than five years of experience), with runs very stable, have low power consumption on user side, runs in Browser (without app), fulfill security and privacy requirements (including being open source) and is easy to use.
best regards
Irmhild
Hi Irmhild
Thanks a lot! I think I'll go with BBB then. :-)
Best, Carsten
On 2020-05-01 09:14, Irmhild Rogalla wrote:
Am 30.04.20 um 20:39 schrieb Carsten Agger:
I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption...
I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButton - it seems to have everything and promises to be easy to install.
Do anyone have experience running these things for practical use?
I don't have experience in *running* BBB, but in using and I'm very happy with this tool! I know lot of video-conferencing systems and have special requirements, because I'm deaf and for every communication I need to see my sign language interpreters. BBB is the only systems/software I found (and I know a lot with more than five years of experience), with runs very stable, have low power consumption on user side, runs in Browser (without app), fulfill security and privacy requirements (including being open source) and is easy to use.
best regards
Irmhild
Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
On 5/1/20 10:10 AM, Carsten Agger wrote:
Hi Irmhild
Thanks a lot! I think I'll go with BBB then. :-)
Best, Carsten
Hi Carsten,
we have set up our own instance of BBB which was quite easy to setup initially and started with UI tweaking.
One downside of BBB I see is that they require Ubuntu in a specific LTS version (currently 16.04). If you use something else you might not get support.
Best Regards, Thomas
Fri 2020-05-01 10:37 UTC, Thomas Doczkal:
Hi Carsten,
One downside of BBB I see is that they require Ubuntu in a specific LTS version (currently 16.04). If you use something else you might not get support.
For reference, the BBB issue for upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 is: https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/8474
On Thursday 30. April 2020 20.39.01 Carsten Agger wrote:
I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption but powerful computer to set up as a video conferencing/communication server at home as a contribution to a very apparent need and as an alternative to FaceTime, Zoom and whatever.
I would be interested to know what hardware choice you make, in fact.
(I have been looking at low-power desktop solutions, but I am now starting to think that various embedded/industrial computers that might have been viable once upon a time are now likely to struggle with the bloated Web experience and GPU-heavy desktop effects bonanza imposed on us today.)
Do people have experience with this? I've tried having a Jitsi Meet instance once and found it difficult to tweak for really good performance.
I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButton - it seems to have everything and promises to be easy to install.
Do anyone have experience running these things for practical use?
I don't have any such experience, but I did just encounter the following document of potential interest:
https://nlnet.nl/news/2020/20200330-WorkRemoteSafely.html
This is obviously pertinent to the FSFE Wiki page about remote working, too.
Paul
On 02.05.2020 00.34, Paul Boddie wrote:
On Thursday 30. April 2020 20.39.01 Carsten Agger wrote:
I'm thinking og buying a low-power-consumption but powerful computer to set up as a video conferencing/communication server at home as a contribution to a very apparent need and as an alternative to FaceTime, Zoom and whatever.
I would be interested to know what hardware choice you make, in fact.
In the end, what I could get was not a smart "small box" PC, but a small-ish traditional Dell stationary with four cores and 12GB of RAM, I believe an i7.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback! My BBB instance is now running, and for now everyone who wants can register as a user. Feel free to test it and also to use it:
https://bigbluebutton.modspil.dk/b
If bandwidth starts becoming an issue at some point, I might close off new registrations and make it invitation only, we'll see.
Best Carsten
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:23:11AM +0200, Carsten Agger wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the feedback! My BBB instance is now running, and for now everyone who wants can register as a user. Feel free to test it and also to use it:
Nice, thanks! Does BBB support OpenID-2.0 authentication ?
--strk;
On 2020-05-04 16:19, Sandro Santilli wrote:
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:23:11AM +0200, Carsten Agger wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the feedback! My BBB instance is now running, and for now everyone who wants can register as a user. Feel free to test it and also to use it:
Nice, thanks! Does BBB support OpenID-2.0 authentication ?
BBB is mainly defined by an API with no frontend except for the HTML 5 client, and therefore they provide a simple front end called Greenlight.
Greenlight supports a number of authentication methods, and since it is just a simple Ruby on Rails application, you could add one yourself.
However, my instance is only configured to basic user/password login.
Best, Carsten
On 2020-05-04 10:23, Carsten Agger wrote:
In the end, what I could get was not a smart "small box" PC, but a small-ish traditional Dell stationary with four cores and 12GB of RAM, I believe an i7.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback! My BBB instance is now running, and for now everyone who wants can register as a user. Feel free to test it and also to use it:
https://bigbluebutton.modspil.dk/b
If bandwidth starts becoming an issue at some point, I might close off new registrations and make it invitation only, we'll see.
After I posted the link I found that camera sharing was not working because I was connecting to an inactive STUN server. This has been fixed since Tuesday.
If any of you have had the opportunity to try this server, I'd appreciate feedback on how it works. Note that the user interface takes some getting used to.
Best, Carsten
Am Donnerstag 30 April 2020 20:39:01 schrieb Carsten Agger:
I'm tempted to go with BigBlueButton - it seems to have everything and promises to be easy to install.
You'll be interested in LWN's Video conferencing with BigBlueButton By Jonathan Corbet April 10, 2020 https://lwn.net/Articles/817146/ (and the companion article about Jitsi, linked there)
Regards, Bernhard