3.5 KiB
Spreed.ME snap
Description
Chat and make audio/video calls straight from Nextcloud using Spreed WebRTC on Ubuntu Snappy.
If you are a company wanting a secure and private alternative for online communication make sure to check out the Spreedbox, providing a ready to use hardware with Spreed.ME included.
Maintainers
Compilation
Prerequisite: You need to have both snapcraft and snapd installed. See https://snapcraft.io
Download the source
$ git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/spreedme-snap
Compile the snap
$ cd spreedme-snap
$ sudo snapcraft
Install it locally
$ sudo snap install spreedme_0.29.2snap1-1_amd64.snap --force-dangerous
Note: Replace the filename with the one which has been generated
Installation
This downloads the app from the Ubuntu app store
$ sudo snap install spreedme
How to use
1. Set up your reverse proxy
You need to configure your reverse proxy so that Nextcloud can communicate with the snap
Apache
Make sure the following modules are installed
- mod_proxy
- mod_proxy_http
- mod_proxy_wstunnel
Add an entry in your Nextcloud virtualhost which points the /webrtc directory to the Spreed.ME snap.
<Location /webrtc>
ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080/webrtc
ProxyPassReverse /webrtc
</Location>
<Location /webrtc/ws>
ProxyPass ws://127.0.0.1:8080/webrtc/ws
</Location>
ProxyVia On
ProxyPreserveHost On
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto 'https' env=HTTPS
2. Install the Spreed.ME app
From the app store
- Go to the app store inside Nextcloud
- Enable experimental apps support (wheel icon, bottom left)
- Click on "Tools" in the left sidebar
- Scroll down until you see the Spreed.ME app
From the command line (not recommended)
Go to the Nextcloud sub-folder where you install your apps
Install via Git
Clone the Spreed.ME Nextcloud app or download it from https://github.com/strukturag/nextcloud-spreedme/releases
git clone https://github.com/strukturag/nextcloud-spreedme.git spreedme
Install via wget
$ wget https://github.com/strukturag/nextcloud-spreedme/archive/v0.3.3.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf v0.3.3.tar.gz
$ mv nextcloud-spreedme-0.3.3 nextcloud-spreedme
Note: You need to adjust the version number
3. Configure the Spreed.ME app
- Go to the admin panel, click on Spreed.ME on the left side-bar
- Click on "Generate Spreed WebRTC config"
- Copy-paste the random string next to "sharedsecret_secret" for later use
- Edit the Spreed me configuration file located at:
/var/snap/spreedme/current/server.conf
- In the [users] section, add the shared secret copy-pasted from earlier, like this
sharedsecret_secret = bb04fb058e2d7fd19c5bdaa129e7883195f73a9c49414a7eXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Restart Spreed.ME. On a system using systemd, this can be done like this:
$ systemctl restart snap.spreedme.spreed-webrtc.service
4. Start spreeding!
- Open the Spreed.ME app in the apps menu
- Authorise your browser to send your notifications and to use your microphone and camera
- Ask other users to come and have a chat
Additional features
- You can create rooms and share the link to other Nextcloud users on the same instance
- You can define the video quality in the settings panel, after clicking on the wheels icon, top right
Spreed WebRTC & Spreed.ME (c)2016 struktur AG