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Since Covid19 I've been using Jitsi a lot. I gave the same "chatroom" to my parents and parents in law, as a way to speak to the kids. Then at some point I'm ge
by teekert 6y ago
Since Covid19 I've been using Jitsi a lot. I gave the same "chatroom" to my parents and parents in law, as a way to speak to the kids. Then at some point I'm getting a message from my father saying they can hear my parents in law speak from their living room in our Jitsi room. It turns out the app does not hang up when moving to another app. So they probably spend a couple of days streaming... No idea if others visited the room, it has a rather unique but not very long name and no password... I know one should hang up, but, keeping a video+audio stream alive in the background should also lead to some warning imho. Btw, this was the iPad Jitsi app keeping the connection alive, not the website.
- raziel2p 6y agoThe app could probably benefit from a "are you still there?" type message when the app has been in the background for an hour. Alternatively, there should be a way to "host" a meeting, similar to in Zoom, which gives you the option to end the meeting for everyone.
- tikkabhuna 6y agoPretty sure all video apps on iOS do this? Normally the status bar changes to put a coloured pill around the time. WhatsApp, FaceTime, and Zoom do this but they will pause video while in the background. Personally I would be annoyed if calls were killed while swapping to other apps.
- teekert 6y agoTrue, it's nice that it can continue. A warning after some time would be nice though.
- jka 6y agoThat's a reasonable concern - I'd recommend searching for existing threads at https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues related to 'iOS' 'background' and any other terms, and raising an issue if none exists. The Jitsi team is pretty responsive on GitHub, and this sounds like the kind of issue that might be a good self-contained task for someone to work on.