More about installation in a separate post.
#ABOUT JITSI MEET ANDROID#
This is important to get the Android and iOS apps running as they refuse to connect to the server that respond with a self signed certificate. A few additional commands give you a Letsencrypt certificate for a domain you own and which you have pointed to the IP address of the VM. All it takes is 4 commands on the shell! Yes, 4 commands! This gives you a running Jitsi instance on TCP port 8443 without encryption. Installing Jitsi on the server is straight forward with their Docker container. So I started-off with a small 1 virtual CPU core instance with 2 GB of memory and 20 TB monthly traffic volume in a Hetzner data center in Germany for 3 euros a month to see how far I would get. Jitsi can be installed with just a few commands on a virtual machine. The big question for me was however: How many video participants can the clients and the server handle in a single conference? A search on the web didn’t really result in a good answer.
Unfortunately, from a privacy and confidentiality point of view, most of them don’t fare very well at all.Īs confidentiality and privacy are very important to me, a potential solution for me and others is Jitsi, which is open source from client to server and can be installed on private infrastructure. There are a couple of fabulous products with good Linux support out there that easily support sessions with 15-20 simultaneous video participants. In the previous blog entry, I’ve been looking at a number of different commercial video conferencing solutions and if they offer native Linux support.
A Jitsi video conference with many participants – video channels pixelated for privacy 🙂
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