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I'm running Jitsi in Docker on a VPS. I use it for voice + video chat while playing online games with friends. For this use case, I had to do almost no tweaking
by antonyt 3y ago
I'm running Jitsi in Docker on a VPS. I use it for voice + video chat while playing online games with friends. For this use case, I had to do almost no tweaking from defaults, so I have not become a Jitsi expert at all. It's been running for about a year with no issues I can remember.
One annoyance was that I couldn't figure out how to set up a persistent room protected by a code. My goal was to have no usernames or passwords, but without allowing completely open access - I just wanted to distribute a room name and single known password/passcode my friends could use to get into the room.
Since this didn't seem to be possible at the time, I settled for requiring rooms to have a "host," which is just me. That way I deal with a username and password, but nobody else has to. It does make it impossible for the rest of the group to play without me, but this isn't an issue for our situation.
- vxNsr 3y agoNice, what are you paying monthly for it? Seems like this could be useful to me too.
- antonyt 3y agoUnfortunately I don't have a very helpful answer - it's free to me. I said VPS as a simplification, but the actual situation is some co-colocated hardware a friend of mine runs. He gives me a virtual slice of it because he has excess capacity. That said, compute-wise I would expect Jitsi to run fine on a $5 droplet or similar. Probably have to watch out for bandwidth costs, I haven't been monitoring my usage because I don't have to.
- saghul 3y agoGlad to hear the defaults worked well for you! Jitsi is xo posee of several moving parts, and making sure everything works well out of the box is something we deeply care about.