[guardian-dev] jitsi-monitor to track basic data about all known public instances

Mon Apr 6 08:43:16 EDT 2020

Of the free voice/video systems, I only know and use Jitsi Meet.  That's
why I wrote it this way.  Its great to hear there are other options.

.hc

Jonas Smedegaard:
> 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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