Does OpenFire support video chat and desktop sharing? I’ve setup a server running OpenFire, and I’m able to use Jitsi to login to my account on this server, chat with others, and do audio calls.
However, attempting to do video calls or desktop sharing simply fails when I try, even though with other protocols like google talk, I am able to do vid calls / desktop sharing.
I’d just like to know if OpenFire does support these protocols and the issue is in Jitsi? Or if I might have to enable any settings or open any ports to make it work, or whether I need to find a different server or protocol that supports video chat / desktop sharing?
Please let me know as this is a bit urgent. Thanks.
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Seriously, what are you expecting with that comment?
I suspect that your intention was to ask for an update on the state of videochat/desktop sharing in Openfire (in which case, have a look at our Pàdé project) but you’re wording that as blunt criticism. That is not a great way to expect people to answer in a helpful and supporting manner, I think.
Guus I am new to open fire. I apologize for the snark. I have been trying to set up a Jitsi instance between two laptops for video/audio and file transfer and have found little guidance for Windows but have managed to fumble my way to success for video and audio calls. However I can’t figure out how to enable chat and file transfers…
Thank you. Have you set up Jitsi using the various wrappers (eg: Pade / OFMeet plugin) that we are making available, or are you using Jitsi as provided by its authors?
When you say ‘struggling with chat and file transfers’, are you trying to achieve this within the Jitsi client, or are you looking to use other IM clients in parallel?
Thank you for the reply, and understanding. I installed Jitsi via the authors website, I’d really like to be able to video conference/transfer files within the two laptop LAN I have created, using whichever setup is most stable and reliable. Any guidance you can give would be appreciated. One laptop is Win 10 and one is Win 11. I installed Pade via Chrome on both laptops, Win 11 laptop won’t sign in, Win 10 does allow. Win 10 laptop has the open fire server thereon.
I’m sorry, but I still don’t quite understand what you’re trying to achieve exactly.
If you’ve set up Jitsi based on the software on 8x8’s website, then you should be able to make use of their functionality, through the (web) client that they provide. Last I looked, that included audio/video conference and a rudimentary chat (which is integrated in their videoconferencing client). I’m not sure if file transfer is part of their feature set, but you basically do not need any of our stuff in such an environment?
How does Openfire come into play in your setup? You you wish to use Openfire for more feature-complete instant messaging, while using Jitsi for video conferencing maybe?
Sorry if I’m confusing the matter. These two laptops need to communicate with one another without internet, a self contained network. I installed Jitsi from (Download | Jitsi) and it was my understanding that I needed a openfire or something similar to facilitate the communication standards. Am I incorrect?
Its possible to do what you want. but i would then ditch the jitsi installation and use Pade instead. install pade in your Openfire, then connect both machines to the Pade link, each one using their own acc on Openfire.
Ah, now things start to click! You’ve downloaded the Jitsi desktop client. When people refer to ‘Jitsi’, I always assume that they’re referencing their server environment (eg, the self-hosted variant of what’s available on https://meet.jit.si/ ).
You’ve got a couple of options here:
You could download Jitsi’s server solution, and host that yourself.
You could download Openfire & Pade (and host that yourself).
I’m not sure if the Jitsi desktop client is still compatible with either.
Lol, I have a way with words…that can confuse myself and others! I’d prefer Pade, looks smoother. I have Openfire on one of the laptops, but don’t know how to install or apply Pade to my instance of Openfire…
Words are hard. To prove just that, we’ve done our best to add to the confusion by creating two distinct (but related) projects that we call ‘Pàdé’.
There’s the browser extension, that basically is a feature-rich client. There is also a plugin for Openfire, which adds the required functionality to your instance of Openfire.
Install the Openfire plugin first, then fire up the client. If you have any questions, I’m happy to point you to @Dele_Olajide who is actually qualified to answer any of the difficult questions.
Note that I do not know if this will work in an environment that has no internet connectivity. In principle, I think it should - but I suspect that we never actually test this (and it’s easy to accidentally inject a dependency to an internet-reachable resource).
This is mostly due to the complicated evolution of telephony, voip, jingle and now webrtc in XMPP. Pade was an early attempt to unify everything into a single solution with a server-side plugin for openfire and a client-side extension for the browser reusing mature open source projects like Jitsi, Converse and FreeSWITCH.
However, Pade is non-standard and many of the features implemented in it now have formal XEPs in the XMPP community. Going forward, expect to see new Openfire plugins implementing various agreed XEPs for audio/video in Openfire.
