This is a rework of the audio join procedure whithout the explict listen
only separation in mind. It's supposed to be used in conjunction with
the transparent listen only feature so that the distinction between
modes is seamless with minimal server-side impact. An abridged list of
changes:
- Let the user pick no input device when joining microphone while
allowing them to set an input device on the fly later on
- Give the user the option to join audio with no input device whenever
we fail to obtain input devices, with the option to try re-enabling
them on the fly later on
- Add the option to open the audio settings modal (echo test et al)
via the in-call device selection chevron
- Rework the SFU audio bridge and its services to support
adding/removing tracks on the fly without renegotiation
- Rework the SFU audio bridge and its services to support a new peer
role called "passive-sendrecv". That role is used by dupled peers
that have no active input source on start, but might have one later
on.
- Remove stale PermissionsOverlay component from the audio modal
- Rework how permission errors are detected using the Permissions API
- Rework the local echo test so that it uses a separate media tag
rather than the remote
- Add new, separate dialplans that mute/hold FreeSWITCH channels on
hold based on UA strings. This is orchestrated server-side via
webrtc-sfu and akka-apps. The basic difference here is that channels
now join in their desired state rather than waiting for client side
observers to sync the state up. It also mitigates transparent listen
only performance edge cases on multiple audio channels joining at
the same time.
The old, decoupled listen only mode is still present in code while we
validate this new approach. To test this, transparentListenOnly
must be enabled and listen only mode must be disable on audio join so
that the user skips straight through microphone join.
* Refactor: Make bundle using webpack
* Fix: restore after install codes and a few settings
* Fix: build script folder permission
* Refactor: Remove support to async import on audio bridges
* Upgrade npm using nvm
* Avoid questions on npm ci execution
* Let npm ci install dev dependencies (as we need the build tools here)
* Fix: enconding
* Fix: old lock files
* Remove: bbb-config dependency to bbb-html5 service, bbb-html5 isn't a service anymore
* Fix: TS errors
* Fix: eslint
* Fix: chat styles
* npm install with "lockfileVersion": 3 (newer npm)
* build: allow nodejs 22
* node 22; drop meteor from CI and bbb-conf
* TEMP: use bbb-install without mongo but with node 22 and newer image
* build: relax nodejs condition to not trip 22.6
* build: ensure dir /usr/share/bigbluebutton/nginx exists
* init sites-available/bbb; drop disable-transparent-
* nginx complaining of missing file and ;
* TMP: print status of services
* WIP: tweak nginx location to debug
* Fix: webcam widgets alignments
* akka-apps -- update location of settings.yml
* build: add locales path for nginx
* docs and config changes for removal of meteor
* Fix: build encoding and locales enpoint folder path
* build: set wss url for media
* Add: Enable minimizer and modify to Terser
* Fix: TS errors
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Co-authored-by: Tiago Jacobs <tiago.jacobs@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Anton Georgiev <anto.georgiev@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Anton Georgiev <antobinary@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(webcams): skip video preview if valid input devices stored
Additionally:
- refactor: re-use the existing VirtualBackground_* storage info instead
of creating a new one
- fix: store background choices per deviceId instead of globally
- fix: guarantee background restore attempts are *critical* when
video-preview is supposed to be skipped. We want the preview to be
shown if the previous background could not be restored to preserver
the user's privacy choice
- fix: cameras could not be shared if no previous device info was in
the user's session
- fix: uploaded background images were not correctly restored
- fix: do not spin up virtual bg workers for brightness if it has not
been altered by the user
- refactor: remove old video-provider background restore routine,
centralize it in video-preview
* fix(skip-video-preview): correct storage check and add playwright test and docs
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* Refactor: Remove the old user status (reaction/emoji)
* Update settings.yml
* test: remove old user status testing code related
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Co-authored-by: Anton B <antonbsa.bck@gmail.com>
* feat(html5): initial implementation of Gladia transcriptions to BBB 3.0
* fix(transcription): Add missing locales and fix invalid cc menu key
* fix(bbb-transcription-controller): Bump transcription controller to fix some bugs
* fix: adjust yq syntax for setting fs esl password in transctiption-controller
* fix(transcription): Use newer useSettings format from transcription options
* fix(captions): Correctly use captions settings
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Co-authored-by: João Victor <joaovictornunes973@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Anton Georgiev <anto.georgiev@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ramón Souza <contato@ramonsouza.com>
* refactor(storage): replace Tracker.Dependency with observer hook
* fix(storage): set initial value
* refactor(storage): stop using Meteor's Session singleton
The audio troubleshooting modal has very microphone-specific strings,
which might confuse users trying to join listen only.
Review the Help screen so that listen only scenarios are more generic.
As a bonus, review the unknownError locale with a more actionable text.
Listen only has a built-in retry routine on join failures that's
convoluted half-broken. It stems from the Kurento era where it could
fail randomly due to a myriad of reasons.
Production logs indicate that the retry is seldom used nowadays in
mediasoup-based environments. The presence of the retry also breaks
the error troubleshooting modal when actual failures happening, leaving
users in the dark about what's happening.
Remove the listen only retry code from AudioManager and bubble up any
join failure to the callers.
In scenarios where the join audio flow skips echo test, NotAllowedError
(and any other errors) are all being mashed together under a generic
MEDIA_ERROR object.
Properly handle specific errors in audio-manager so they're correctly
render in the audio modal help screen.
WebRTC-based stats generation in the connection status modal is broken
on Firefox >= 125. A broken type check coupled with a new partially
implemented RTCIceTransport dictionary causes and undefined function
call when fetching the selected candidate pair. Since that error is
unhandled, collection breaks.
Correctly check for the getSelectedCandidatePair method availability in
RTCIceTransport so that it skips to pair inference from getStats if
necessary.
