Moving from LiveKit AVClient

Modular A/V replaces LiveKit AVClient (avclient-livekit, both bekriebel's module and the Discord-like fork of it). The two can't run together: disable LiveKit AVClient, then install and enable Modular A/V. Most of what you set up comes along by itself.

What to install

You used	Install
LiveKit AVClient with your LiveKit server or LiveKit Cloud	modular-av, modular-av-livekit, modular-av-dock
Its noise cancellation (RNNoise, Speex, GTCRN)	also modular-av-mic-denoise
Its camera background (blur, an image)	also modular-av-cam-background
Tavern's Patreon server	not supported: set up LiveKit, or use modular-av-p2p

The starter set installs the first three rows in one go.

What comes along

The server (GMs). The first time a GM opens the world, Modular A/V offers to use LiveKit AVClient's server: the address goes to the world's settings, the API key and secret only to that GM's browser. It then offers to remove the old setting from the world. Do: LiveKit AVClient kept the secret where every player's browser could read it.

Replace your LiveKit key. Because every player could read the old secret, create a new API key and secret in your LiveKit project, enter them in Modular A/V: LiveKit's settings, and delete the old key there. Enter the key and secret in each browser a GM uses to run the game.

Each player's choices. When a player first loads the world in a browser where they used LiveKit AVClient, Modular A/V brings over what they had saved there, once:

LiveKit AVClient	Modular A/V
Input sensitivity (automatic, or a level)	The same, in voice and video settings
Noise cancellation model	The same model, turned on (if noise cancellation was on)
Dock layout (grid, focus, compact)	Grid or focus; compact becomes grid
Floating dock	Floating dock
Camera background (blur or an image)	Blur or replace background, with its strength, quality and image

Mute, hide and volume settings were Foundry's own and stay as they were.

What doesn't

• Tavern's Patreon server. It is a LiveKit server, but you never get its key and secret: tokens come from Tavern's own Patreon sign-in service, while Modular A/V signs them in a GM's browser with a key you hold. Move to LiveKit Cloud or your own LiveKit server, or use P2P.
• Breakout rooms, the external A/V client and music mode.
• Krisp, until its module is released.
• Volumes above 100% and players muted only for you: set them again in the dock.

Differences you'll notice

• Camera background needs Chrome, Edge or another Chromium browser; without one, the camera works without the effect.
• When a camera background can't run, your camera is kept off rather than sent without it, and the dock says why.
• Noise cancellation is off until a player turns a model on.
• Players can join only while a GM is online, since a GM's browser signs their tokens.