Video Conferencing

If you want to enable video conferencing, you have 2 options, pimentaLIVE or pimentaCHAT Meet.

We recommend using pimentaLIVE for video conference, since pimentaCHAT Meet is still a work in progress.

pimentaLIVE

You can use the pimentaLIVE video conferencing platform embedded in pimentaCHAT.

The pimentaLIVE project (pimentaLIVE Video Bridge) is a tried and true bandwidth efficient WebRTC compatible SFU (server based) solution, pimentaLIVE.

Through the collaboration arrangement with pimentaLIVE, pimentaCHAT users can enjoy reliable and robust group video chat, audio chat, and screen sharing experience out of the box.

To enable pimentaLIVE:

Go to Administation -> SETTINGS -> Video Conference then set Enabled to True.

From there you can set where video conferences can be held (channels, private rooms and direct messages).

How to set up your own pimentaLIVE server

In some use-cases, where the Jitsi.org infrastructure may be remote or inaccessible, or where you require total privacy, setting up your own pimentaLIVE servers stack may be necessary.

You can find extensive instructions on setting up a pimentaLIVE servers stack at the official pimentaLIVE repository.

After setting your pimentaLIVE Server you can set the meeting Domain to the one on your server.

pimentaCHAT Meet (WebRTC)

pimentaCHAT Meet (in some places named as WebRTC) is our own take on implementing pure WebRTC. It still a work in progress but if you want to use it you can go to Administration -> WebRTC.

From there you can set where video conferences can be held (channels, private rooms and direct messages).

You can also define a list of STUN/TURN Servers to be used.