Tech Fiddle Meet

Desktop application for Tech Fiddle Meet built with Electron modified from Jitsi Meet Electron App.

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Features

• End-to-End Encryption support (BETA)
• Works with any Jitsi Meet deployment
• Built-in auto-updates
• Remote control (Currently Disabled due to Security Issues)
• Always-On-Top Window
• Support for deep links such as comp-labs-meet://meeting (will open meeting on the configured Jitsi Server URL in the App) or comp-labs-meet://meet.example.com/meeting (will open meeting on the Jitsi Meet Server running on meet.example.com)

Installation

Download our latest release and you're off to the races!

Windows	macOS	GNU/Linux (AppImage)	GNU/Linux (Deb)	Snap Store
Download	Download	Download	Download

NOTE: The GNU/Linux builds are 64-bit only.

Using it with your own Jitsi Meet installation

⚠️ The following additional HTTP headers are known to break the Electron App:

Content-Security-Policy "frame-ancestors [looks like any value is bad]";
X-Frame-Options "DENY";

A working Content Security Policy looks like that:

Content-Security-Policy "img-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' data:; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'wasm-eval'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; font-src 'self'; object-src 'none'; base-uri 'self'; form-action 'none';";

Development

If you want to hack on this project, here is how you do it.

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Installing dependencies

Install Node.js 16 first (or if you use nvm, switch to Node.js 16 by running nvm use).

Extra dependencies for Windows

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

Extra dependencies for GNU/Linux

X11, PNG and ZLIB development packages are necessary. Debian-like systems then can be installed as follows:

sudo apt install libx11-dev zlib1g-dev libpng-dev libxtst-dev

Install all required packages:

npm install

Starting in development mode

npm start

The debugger tools are available when running in dev mode and can be activated with keyboard shortcuts as defined here https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-debug#features.

It can also be displayed automatically from the SHOW_DEV_TOOLS environment variable such as:

SHOW_DEV_TOOLS=true npm start

or from the application --show-dev-tools command line flag.

Building the production distribution

npm run dist

Working with jitsi-meet-electron-sdk

jitsi-meet-electron-sdk is a helper package that implements many features such as remote control and the always-on-top window. If new features are to be added/tested, running with a local version of these utils is very handy, here is how to do that.

By default, the @jitsi/electron-sdk is built from npm. The default dependency path in package.json is:

"@jitsi/electron-sdk": "^3.0.0"

To work with a local copy you must change the path to:

"@jitsi/electron-sdk": "file:///Users/name/jitsi-meet-electron-sdk-copy",

To build the project you must force it to take the sources as npm update will not do it.

npm install @jitsi/electron-sdk --force

NOTE: Also check the jitsi-meet-electron-sdk README to see how to configure your environment.

Publishing

1. Create release branch: git checkout -b release-1-2-3, replacing 1-2-3 with the desired release version
2. Increment the version: npm version patch, replacing patch with minor or major as required
3. Push release branch to GitHub: git push -u origin release-1-2-3
4. Create PR: gh pr create
5. Once PR is reviewed and ready to merge, create a draft Github release: gh release create v1.2.3 --draft --title 1.2.3, replacing v1.2.3 and 1.2.3 with the desired release version
6. Merge PR
7. The GitHub Action Workflow will build binaries and attach them to the draft release
8. Test binaries from a draft release
9. If all tests are fine, publish a draft release

Known issues

Windows

A warning will show up mentioning the app is unsigned upon the first installation. This is expected.

macOS

On macOS Catalina and above versions, a warning will be displayed on the first installation. The app won't open unless "open" is pressed. This dialog is only shown once.

GNU/Linux

If after downloading it, you can't execute the file directly, try running chmod u+x ./comp-labs-meet-x86_64.AppImage

On Ubuntu 22.04 the AppImage will fail with a fuse error (as AppImage uses libfuse2, while 22.04 already comes with libfuse3 by default):

dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2

To fix this, install libfuse2 as follows:

sudo apt install libfuse2

Under Wayland, experimental native Wayland support can be enabled with the command-line switch --ozone-platform-hint set to auto:

./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage --ozone-platform-hint=auto

Note that screen sharing is currently not supported under Wayland, eg. the permissions prompt may loop endlessly.

In case you experience a blank page after Jitsi server upgrades, try removing the local cache files:

rm -rf ~/.config/Jitsi\ Meet/

NOTE for old GNU/Linux distributions

You might get the following error:

FATAL:nss_util.cc(632)] NSS_VersionCheck("3.26") failed. NSS >= 3.26 is required.
Please upgrade to the latest NSS, and if you still get this error, contact your
distribution maintainer.

If you do, please install NSS (example for Debian / Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install libnss3

Translations

The JSON files are for all the strings inside the application and can be translated here.

New translations require the addition of a line in index.js And a New Translation file inside the directory /app/i18n/lang/translation.json. language.json to be replaced with the ISO 639-1 standard language codes. Example:

/app/i18n/index.js

import i18n from 'i18next';
import { initReactI18next } from 'react-i18next';
import moment from 'moment';

const languages = {
    en: { translation: require('./lang/language.json') }
    // Example for German (Standard)
    // de: { translation: require('./lang/de.json') }
};

const detectedLocale = navigator.language;

i18n
    .use(initReactI18next)
    .init({
        resources: languages,
        lng: detectedLocale,
        fallbackLng: 'en',
        interpolation: {
            escapeValue: false
        }
    });

moment.locale(detectedLocale);

export default i18n;

/app/i18n/lang/language.json

NOTE: This is not an updated translation for Tech Fiddle Meet. As we Modified the Source Code, but we didn't modify the translation JSON files, so don't open an issue about this translation being incorrect. This will be corrected in the future. Thanks for your cooperation.

{
	"enterConferenceNameOrUrl": "Bitte einen Konferenznamen oder eine Jitsi-Adresse eingeben",
	"go": "LOS",
	"help": "Hilfe",
	"termsLink": "Nutzungsbedingungen",
	"privacyLink": "Datenschutzbedingungen",
	"recentListLabel": "oder einen zuletzt genutzen Konferenzraum betreten",
	"sendFeedbackLink": "Eine Rückmeldung senden",
	"aboutLink": "F&A",
	"sourceLink": "Quelltext",
	"versionLabel": "Version: {{version}}",
	"onboarding": {
		"startTour": "Tour starten",
		"skip": "Überspringen",
		"welcome": "Willkommen in {{appName}}",
		"letUsShowYouAround": "Wir zeigen wie alles funktioniert!",
		"next": "Weiter",
		"conferenceUrl": "Bitte den Namen (oder die vollständige Adresse) des Raumes eingeben, dem beigetreten werden soll. Es kann ein Name ausgedacht werden, diesen bitte anderen mitteilen, damit sie denselben Namen eingeben.",
		"settingsDrawerButton": "Hier klicken, um zu den Einstellungen zu gelangen.",
		"nameSetting": "Das ist der Anzeigename, andere werden Sie unter diesem Namen sehen.",
		"emailSetting": "Die hier eingegebene E-Mail ist Teil des Benutzerprofils.",
		"startMutedToggles": "Hier kann eingestellt werden, ob mit stummgeschaltetem Audio oder Video gestartet wird. Das wird auf alle Konferenzen angewendet.",
		"serverSetting": "Das ist der Server, auf dem die Konferenzen stattfinden werden. Es kann ein eigener verwendet werden, muss aber nicht!",
		"serverTimeout": "Zeitüberschreitung für den Beitritt zu einer Konferenz. Wenn nicht rechtzeitig beigetreten wurde, wird die Konferenz abgebrochen.",
		"alwaysOnTop": "Hier kann eingestellt werden, ob das Fenster »Immer im Vordergrund« aktiviert wird. Dieses wird angezeigt, wenn das Hauptfenster den Fokus verliert. Das wird bei allen Konferenzen angewendet."
	},
	"settings": {
		"back": "Zurück",
		"name": "Name",
		"email": "E-Mail",
		"advancedSettings": "Erweiterte Einstellungen",
		"alwaysOnTopWindow": "Immer im Vordergrund",
		"startWithAudioMuted": "Ohne Audio starten",
		"startWithVideoMuted": "Ohne Video starten",
		"invalidServer": "Falsche Server-Adresse",
		"invalidServerTimeout": "Ungültiger Wert für die Server-Wartezeit",
		"serverUrl": "Server-Adresse",
		"serverTimeout": "Server-Wartezeit (in Sekunden)",
		"disableAGC": "Automatische Mikrofonlautstärkeregelung deaktivieren"
	}
}

You can open a Pull Request in this Repository for Updating or Adding New Translations. Your help will be highly appreciated.

Localizing desktop files on Linux requires the addition of a line in package.json. Please search for Comment[hu] as an example to help add your translation of the English string Jitsi Meet Desktop App for your language.

License

MIT License. See the LICENSE file.

Community

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