Dropnook 2.3.0

Dropnook 2.3.0 — the live room: video and voice for up to 10 people in your network, instead of 1:1 calls.

• Go live: the camera button at the top → Video or Voice. Everyone with Drop open sees a live tile above the text fields — who is there, how many — and joins with one click. No ringing, no answering.
  • Up to 10 people (LIVE_MAX, 2–50). Every member is connected to every other one; the more people, the smaller each picture is sent (480p from 5, 360p from 7), so phones keep up.
  • In the room: mute, camera off, front and back camera, Photo into the shared files, and Invite: nudges someone who has Drop open — it rings briefly there, with a button to join.
  • Whoever opened the room can lock it; when they leave, the next one takes over. The room ends when the last one leaves.
  • Smaller puts the room into a corner; texts and files stay usable below it. Tap a picture to make it large. Whoever speaks gets a green frame.
  • Picture and sound go straight from device to device (WebRTC). Drop only passes on the messages that set the connections up; nothing leaves your network, and drop-share has none of it.
  • HTTPS only — browsers give camera and microphone to nothing else. Over plain HTTP the tile still shows who is live and explains why joining needs HTTPS. With users, the room belongs to the shared area.
• Texts and help in all 17 languages.

Nothing to change on your side: Check for Updates → Update (with DROPNOOK_VERSION=2 in the .env, Compose Up). To change the limit of 10, take the new compose.yaml and set LIVE_MAX in the .env. The Community Apps edition gets the update too, with Live room: most people among the advanced settings.

What's Changed

• compose.yaml: plain and grouped, without comments by @dropnook in #11
• READMEs: LAN-only from Community Apps by @dropnook in #3
• compose.yaml: image version from the .env by @dropnook in #12
• Live room instead of 1:1 calls (2.3.0) by @dropnook in #13

Full Changelog: v2.2.1...v2.3.0