I’ve been involved in installing and configuring a new Jitsi instance at Hivane. I mainly followed the official deployment documentation. The goal was also to test Jibri features like recording and streaming.

How to install Docker and Docker-Compose isn’t covered here, for this refer to the documentation at Docker:

On my side I installed the above on a dedicated VM and a fresh Debian 10 (Buster). To run the stack I’m using a dedicated user which belongs to the docker group.

TL;DR inspired by the official doc

Download and extract the latest release. DO NOT clone the git repository. See below if you are interested in running test images.
Create a .env file by copying and adjusting env.example:
```
 cp env.example .env
```
Set strong passwords in the security section options of .env file by running the following bash script
```
./gen-passwords.sh
```
Create required CONFIG directories
```
 mkdir -p ~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/{web/crontabs,web/letsencrypt,transcripts,prosody/config,prosody/prosody-plugins-custom,jicofo,jvb,jigasi,jibri}
```
At this point do not start the stack yet. We’re going to prepare the host for Jibri. Basically it’s about loading the module snd-aloop:

configure 5 capture/playback interfaces

 echo "options snd-aloop enable=1,1,1,1,1 index=0,1,2,3,4" > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-loopback.conf

setup autoload the module
```
 echo "snd-aloop" >> /etc/modules
```
Reboot and see if the module was loaded with:
```
 lsmod | grep snd_aloop
```
Finally, start the stack. In this setup we also leverage Jibri:
```
 docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f jibri.yml up -d
```

I provide below the values I tweaked in .env. Of course it doesn’t include the XX_PASSWORD variables that you should have set with the script ./gen-passwords.sh from the step 2 above.

--- env.example	2021-10-21 15:20:10.000000000 +0200
+++ .env	2021-10-28 16:22:26.779779243 +0200
@@ -27,0 +28 @@
+DISABLE_REACTIONS=1
@@ -36 +37 @@
-HTTP_PORT=8000
+HTTP_PORT=80
@@ -39 +40 @@
-HTTPS_PORT=8443
+HTTPS_PORT=443
@@ -45 +46 @@
-#PUBLIC_URL=https://meet.example.com
+PUBLIC_URL=https://jitsi2.hivane.net
@@ -78 +79 @@
-#ENABLE_LETSENCRYPT=1
+ENABLE_LETSENCRYPT=1
@@ -81 +82 @@
-#LETSENCRYPT_DOMAIN=meet.example.com
+LETSENCRYPT_DOMAIN=jitsi2.hivane.net
@@ -84 +85 @@
-#LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=alice@atlanta.net
+LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=certbot@ow2.org
@@ -258 +259 @@
-JVB_TCP_HARVESTER_DISABLED=true
+JVB_TCP_HARVESTER_DISABLED=false
@@ -324 +325 @@
-#ENABLE_RECORDING=1
+ENABLE_RECORDING=1
@@ -376 +377 @@
-#ENABLE_HTTP_REDIRECT=1
+ENABLE_HTTP_REDIRECT=1

Everything else in .env remains untouched

Changes overview:

DISABLE_REACTIONS disable the reactions menu from the UI.
HTTP_PORT and HTTPS_PORT are set to standard values
PUBLIC_URL, the base URL of the instance
ENABLE_LETSENCRYPT, LETSENCRYPT_DOMAIN (same as PUBLIC_URL above), LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL : enable automatic certificates management
JVB_TCP_HARVESTER_DISABLED : enable Jitsi Video Bridge fallback to TCP when UDP isn’t available
ENABLE_RECORDING enable record and streaming
ENABLE_HTTP_REDIRECT : http redirects to https

Report on testing

Recording

In release 5963 we had an issue with recording because of the resolution (1080p) which were overloading the server memory and caused ffmpeg to be killed after about a minute. With the new version (6433), the issue is solved as they lowered the default resolution to 720p (and it can be configured ! :sun_with_face: ).

Recording is working properly, in 720p, since release 6433. The MPEG-4 video files are stored on the filesystem under ~/.jitsi-meet-cfg/jibri/recordings.

Streaming

YouTube streaming seems to work and I’ve been able to stream to PeerTube @ https://tube.cloud-libre.eu as well.

For PeerTube streaming, on thing to remember: on Jitsi side, in place of “Youtube live stream key” you should “paste the PeerTube RTMP URL followed by the PeerTube live stream key (you may have to add a slash in-between).”