Jitsi
Getting started
Starting the app
Create an account on NWS Customer Interface.
- After finishing your registration, you have two possibilities to start your app:
- Now name your instance, choose a plan and accept the terms of conditions -> press down-right "create"-button
- Now your app is beeing created ->
Logging in
- click on the Endpoints Web-Link (or on the "Go to App"- button) to get to your Jisti instance and and you can start your first video conference right away
- when you start your first videoconference you will first be asked to enter your user name and password, which you can find under "Settings" -> to copy the password, you must first set it to visible
- there you can also create new users and enter passwords
Moderators in NWS Jitsi
In our Jitsi app, only one moderator can create video conference rooms. To do this, he creates a conference room and to open it, he must enter his user name and password. After his successful entry, all other participants can join the call without entering a password.
Creating more moderators
By default, an admin user is always created when starting a Jisti app. This user is not editable (name and password cannot be changed).
However, additional moderators can be created. The number of possible moderators depends on the started plan. The higher the plan, the more moderators can be created.
In the Customer Interface, go to Settings on your Jitisi app.
At the point "Customer Settings" you can now simply enter the desired username and user password and then add the user with "Add User".
Starting a video conference
Log in to your Jitsi app.
In the start menu you will find the input field to name your videoconference room (1). Enter the desired name here or just use the randomly suggested name. Go to "Start Meeting".
Now enter your name. You can also set various adjustments concerning Background-picture, mircophone, camera and general settings. Click on "Join Meeting":
Now you have to confirm that you are the host (guests just have to wait till the host has opend the room) and then you have to enter your login data (username and password).
Administrative Tasks
Customization
Just go to your Jitsi app in the NWS Customer Interface and click on "Settings". Go to "Design Settings".
Here you can:
1. Edit Background color
Click on the Color-field and choose your desired color. Press "Save customization" to save the change.
2. Insert own background picture and/or own logo
Just upload your company logo to the design settings under the item "Custom watermark" - please note that only SVG files can be used here.
For the background image it works the same way - only this is inserted at the point "Background image" - here JPGs or PNGs can be used.
3. Customize your App name, the header title and sub header title
To customize the text in the Jitsi start menue, you can change the App name, the Header title and the Subheader title at the design settings under the item "Title customization".
4. Customize the legal settings
Here you can insert the link for your imprint and privacy policy.
5. Subdomain
Just go to your GitLab app in the NWS Customer Interface and click on "Settings". Open the "CNAME"- tab and fill in your subdomain.
6. Customer Domain
For this, the following things must be fulfilled /accomplished:
- Domain must belong to you
- You must set an A-record to IP 185.11.255.46 for the domain name
- You enter this in our NWS Customer interface at your Jitsi app under "Settings"
- You specify if you want to have a Let's encrypt certificate or an SSL certificate
Advanced Topics
Recording a video conferene
Recording is not possible in our Jitsi app.
If recording is an indispensable tool for you, we can setup an individual Jitsi instance for you on our OpenStack where we can activate custom features like recording, special branding, connection to you AD or joining via telephone with SIP. Just contact us here.
Secure a video conference room
Yes, that´s possible. You have three options to secure your Jitsi room.
At first you have to open the conference room. You will now find the security options under the "more options" field.
- Enable lobby: Lobby mode lets you protect your meeting by only allowing people to enter the room after a formal approval by the moderator.
- Password: You can add a password to the meeting. Participants will need to provide the password before they are allowed to join the meeting.
- End-to-End Encryption: this mode ist currently EXPERIMENTAL. Keep in mind that the meeting will only work for people joining from browsers with support for insertable streams.