Ask HN: Open-Source alternative to Zoom – Teams – Google meet and so on

Author: open-source

Score: 7

Comments: 23

Date: 2021-12-02 18:08:01

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mirotalk wrote at 2021-12-02 21:40:05:

Hey, You can try MiroTalk P2P [1] or MiroTalk SFU [2]

[1]

https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk

[2]

https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalksfu

Live Demo:

[1]

https://mirotalk.up.railway.app/

[2]

https://sfu.mirotalk.org/

It's fulfill All the functions you requested.

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 22:05:55:

Wow, Thank you so much, Very interesting! Seems to satisfy what I was looking for. The UI looks great and is very simple to use. Is it also possible to have remote screen control?

mirotalk wrote at 2021-12-02 22:21:21:

Actually, There are no APIs in WebRTC about remote screen control. But if it can help you look at this [1]

[1]

https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/p2p

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 22:25:06:

Thanks for sharing

mirotalk wrote at 2021-12-02 22:27:00:

U welcome

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 18:59:10:

I found Jitsi:

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

but is a very big projects and not easy to understand.

I need some other alternative solutions, with much fewer codes, that has features like:

[1] webcam streaming

[2] audio streaming

[3] screen sharing

[4] file sharing

[5] messaging

[6] whiteboard

[7] recording

Any help is very appreciated.

Thanks

alsobrsp wrote at 2021-12-02 21:42:07:

I have been using Jitsi since the start of lockdowns. It works very well and has a very active development. The install instructions were pretty straight forward and I had it up in less than an hour on a base Vultr Debian vm.

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 22:11:34:

Thank you very much, I tried it is not bad, but it seems that there is a lack of file sharing between the participants and the collaborative whiteboard.

gego wrote at 2021-12-02 21:19:46:

Look at the open source office tools from faircom... Scroll down a little

https://www.fairkom.eu/en/fairapps

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 22:04:30:

Thanks, I don't understand how to start a video call session, but I'll calmly get there :)

gego wrote at 2021-12-03 00:56:57:

It's basically a free jitsu instance to use and test

https://www.fairkom.eu/en/fairmeeting

open-source wrote at 2021-12-03 06:29:38:

Thanks, I have already tried Jitsi, but as I said, the file transfer and the whiteboard are missing, MiroTalk seems the most complete for now.

jvanveen wrote at 2021-12-02 22:54:43:

Still alpha software, but may be usable already:

https://github.com/garage44/pyrite

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 23:21:39:

Thanks i will try

f0e4c2f7 wrote at 2021-12-02 20:21:10:

I've never tried it but I've always been curious about MatterMost. It's an open source slack knock off. I believe they even have some API integration with other services the way slack does.

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 22:03:06:

Very Interesting, and pretty much like Slack, thank you very much.

codegeek wrote at 2021-12-02 21:23:33:

For learning, there is BigBlueButton

https://bigbluebutton.org

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 22:03:58:

Thank you very much, but it seems to have a 60 minute limitation for each meeting and disabled recording, and also requires registration. It's popup this message: Due to increased demand, recordings are temporarily disabled and the maximum duration of a meeting has been reduced to 60 minutes on this server. (k8s).

codegeek wrote at 2021-12-03 16:56:22:

That is the hosted demo version. You can self host with no restrictions. It is open source

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton

elkos wrote at 2021-12-03 00:24:31:

That's for the demo site. These limitations aren't inherent to the bigbluebutton platform. If you deploy it on your own machine (It's suggested to do it on servers not VMs but for small teams it may be more than enough) without such limitations.

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 19:02:02:

What I also noticed is that Jitsi is a great app but it lacks file sharing and collaborative whiteboard, which are very important to me.

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 19:05:14:

And another question, is it possible to also have remote screen control in addition to screen sharing?

I don't even know if there is such a thing?

open-source wrote at 2021-12-02 22:32:21:

Waiting for other alternatives. Thank you guys for the sharing.