If the autoplay block is triggered in listen only, the connection timer
keeps ticking even if the user correctly accepts the audio play prompt.
That causes an audio re-connect once the timeout expires.
Clear the connection timer if the audio bridge starts with
NotAllowedError as a soft error. For connection purposes, the audio join
procedure worked. The autoplay thing is at the UI/UX level, not WebRTC.
This is an initial, experimental implementation of the feature proposed in
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/14021.
The intention is to phase out the explicit listen only mode with two
overarching goals:
- Reduce UX friction and increase familiarity: the existence of a separate
listen only mode is a source of confusion for the majority of users
Reduce average server-side CPU usage while also making it possible for
having full audio-only meetings.
The proof-of-concept works based on the assumption that a "many
concurrent active talkers" scenario is both rare and not useful. With
that in mind, this including two server-side triggers:
- On microphone inactivity (currently mute action that is sustained for
4 seconds, configurable): FreeSWITCH channels are held (which translates
to much lower CPU usage, virtually 0%). Receiving channels are switched,
server side, to a listening mode (SFU, mediasoup).
* This required an extension to mediasoup two allow re-assigning producers
to already established consumers. No re-negotiation is done.
- On microphone activity (currently unmute action, immediate):
FreeSWITCH channels are unheld, listening mode is deactivated and the
mute state is updated accordingly (in this order).
This is *off by default*. It needs to be enabled in two places:
- `/etc/bigbluebutton/bbb-webrtc-sfu/production.yml` ->
`transparentListenOnly: true`
- End users:
* Server wide: `/etc/bigbluebutton/bbb-html5.yml` ->
`public.media.transparentListenOnly: true`
* Per user: `userdata-bbb_transparent_listen_only=true`
SFU based audio is missing connection timers, which means the join
procedure can go on indefinitely in a couple of scenarios.
Refactor the connection timers added for re-connections in the SFU audio
bridge and make them valid for the first try as well.
Make 1010 errors (connection timeout) retriable when retryThroughRelay
is enabled.
1007 errors are still a large fraction of our overall audio join error
rate. This usually indicates some sort of firewall block or UDP issues
carrier networks. I can't figure out why some scenarios won't trickle
down to relay candidates though - I'm leaning to scenarios where STUN
packets with USE-CANDIDATE are being mangled/lost along the way or
something else that borks the (already fragile) conn checks for ICE-lite
implementations.
Add a new feature called retryThroughRelay which triggers a retry with
iceTransportPolicy=relay whenever audio fails to join with a 1007 error.
The goal is to force relay usage to try and bypass 1007s scenarios that
still happen.
Disabled by default.
Currently, the reactions are cleared on mongo based on the expire time.
So to sync its state with akka, an observer is atattched to the user
reactions collection and whenever a reaction is removed because of the
expiration time, akka is notified with message 'UserReactionTimeExpiredCmdMsg'.
Adds two new messages which clear the users emoji statuses. This messages
enables this task to be done in a single call, instead of triggering one
method call for each user.
'ClearAllUsersEmojiCmdMsg' is sent from meteor to akka and updates all the
emoji states in the users model.
'ClearedAllUsersEmojiEvtMsg' is sent from akka to meteor. This triggers the
mongo collection update.
This commit makes the messages of the timer feature to be proxied by
akka-apps and also adds a timer model that is updated based on these
messages.
Moving the timer panel opening logic to the timer button component in
the navigation panel was a consequence of these changes.
Changes the timer auto-stop threshold from 90% to 100% of user count
to prioritize the timer alert sounding for all users over the timer state
being consistent.
Also, puts the user count fetch back to where it was to avoid a race
condition where the number of users when setting the observer is
different than when the timer ends(i.e. users've joined or left the
meeting while the timer was running) causing the timer not to stop or
stop prematurely.
There was a legacy attribute being used to find active users in the meeting.
This wrong attribute caused the returned number of users to be 0 which
makes the timer stop prematurely and, possibly, not to issue the timer beep.
Also adds a missing argument to updateTimer and moves the find call to
the Users collection to a external function, so it doesn't get executed
every time an user notifies timer has ended.
Filters users collection by 'online' connection status and describes when/how
server detects that the timer has ended to automatically stop it.
Also, fixed a corner case that when timer alarm was disabled, clients didn't
notify that the timer ended.
When user enters meeting with music already playing, an event listener is set
to play the music only after user interaction.
Also, to keep timer more cohesive and reduce complexity of the condition for
playing music, timer automatically stops after 90% of users notify that the
timer has expired.
Adds a music player for ambient sound which can be turned on and off using a
toggle located inside timer panel. When stopwatch is selected, this toggle is
automattically turned off.
