Streams a given BBB Meeting to an RTMP Server.
License: GNU GPL v3 or later
All you need is Docker running on your machine and a media server to stream to.
You need to set some environment variables to run the container.
- BBB_URL - URL to BBB including http/https e.g. https://your_BigBlueButton_server/bigbluebutton/api
- BBB_MEETING_ID - ID of the BBB Meeting (You can get the ID via an API call: https://your_bbb_server/bigbluebutton/api/getMeetings?checksum=)
- BBB_SECRET - Secret of your BBB installation (You can get the secret with: bbb-conf --secret)
- BBB_STREAM_URL - Stream URL to your streaming server including rtmp. (e.g. rtmp://media_server_url/stream/stream_key)
- BBB_AS_MODERATOR - if set to "true" the meeting will be joined as moderator
- BBB_START_MEETING - start meeting
- BBB_ATTENDEE_PASSWORD - attendee password (optional - has to be set to the attendee password of moodle/greenlight or any other frontend to allow joining via their links)
- BBB_MODERATOR_PASSWORD - moderator password (optional - has to be set to the moderator password of moodle/greenlight or any other frontend to allow joining via their links)
- BBB_MEETING_TITLE - meeting title (optional - only works if the meeting is started by the liveStreaming)
- BBB_USER_NAME - the username to join the meeting. (Default: Live)
- BBB_SHOW_CHAT - shows the chat on the left side of the window (Default: false)
- BBB_ENABLE_CHAT - Enable Chat feedback channel
- BBB_REDIS_HOST - Set REDIS host (Default: redis)
- BBB_REDIS_CHANNEL - Set REDIS channel (Default: chat)
- BBB_CHAT_NAME - the username to join the meeting for chatting. (Default: Chat)
- wget -O docker-compose.yml https://raw.github.com/aau-zid/BigBlueButton-liveStreaming/1.0.0-beta.4/examples/docker-compose.yml.example
- (change configuration)
- docker-compose up -d
- docker-compose down
- You must extract and provide the meetingID, which is not visible within the room.
- the streamer cannot join meetings, that where not started yet
- the streamer does not reconnect, if the connection to BigBlueButton gets lost
- when using breakoutrooms, the streamer will show the popup of the invitation and not be able to get back to the conference
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BigBlueButton-liveStreaming is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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