[guardian-dev] jitsi-monitor to track basic data about all known public instances
Jonas Smedegaard
jonas at jones.dk
Mon Apr 6 08:31:05 EDT 2020
Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner (2020-04-06 12:11:05)
> With everyone needing video conferencing these days, there has been an
> explosion of public Jitsi Meet instances, which is great to see. In
> order to help people choose which one works for them, I have set up
> "jitsi-monitor", it runs once a day on all known public Jitsi Meet
> instances and gathers some basic data on them:
>
> * configuration including STUN servers, analytics, etc.
> * TLS settings and connection timing
> * TCP traceroute
> * what else?
Are you interested only in Jitsi Meet instances?
If more generally interested in Open standards and Free licensed
instances, I can recommend to also try locate services using
SylkServer/Janus/Mediasoup/Licode/Medooze/Spreed/BigBlueButton/OpenMeetings,
and identify at each _service_ which underlying engine/framework is used
to aid in reliability issues.
Concretely it seems Jiti Meet works reliably only when _all_
participants in a room use a Chromium-based web browser:
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/475
My guess is that Jitsi Meet fails to parse SDP data in the
standards-compliant "unified" format and only properly handles "plan B"
style as used by Chromium-based browsers. And my guess is that other
engines/frameworks perform differently at that. I am unaware that
anyone has tested for this type of problem.
Matrix instances use Jitsi Meet.
NextCloud instances use Spreed.
https://sip2sip.info/ uses SylkServer.
https://letsmeet.no/ uses Mediasoup.
- Jonas
P.S. I manitain some notes on the topic at
https://source.redpill.dk/media-stream-hosting.git/tree
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