OS Image for Video Conferences ready!

[merlin]

Below is a link to a Raspbian-based image useful for Audio/Video Conferences over the web entirely hosted by a Raspberry Pi 3. To use it, just flash the image file to your SD card, boot and connect to the internal web server at http://yourrpi with your PC/Smartphone/tablet browser.

This allows to interconnect as many PC, Tablets, Smart Phones and other Rpi's as you want with your Rpi. No external server is accessed or required in the infrastructure, as everything runs on the Raspberry Pi itself. NO CONFIGURATION IS NECESSARY. The only requirement is that you have an official camera board connected to the Rpi; the USB microphone is optional. Audio and Video is bidirectional from/to any participant (each direction is optional). Participants are automatically rendered onto the HDMI screen attached to the Rpi (if present). Audio goes out through the speakers.

Once you are on the home page, just type your name and click Start to make your Rpi join the conference room on localhost, Stop to leave. You can also join/leave a room hosted on another server (i.e. on another Rpi's) if you want to.

The image can be downloaded from here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxgkH ... W5tMkZkem8

[SonOfAMotherlessGoat]

Thanks, rolling your own distribution can be daunting at times. Would you have a website or a GitHub repo with the code that you have included on the image? People are probably going to be quite wary of downloading a random (to them) image from a dropbox account and then running that on their internal networks. Being able to see the code, or at least a quick walk through of what you did would help greatly!

[merlin]

Would you have a website or a GitHub repo with the code that you have included on the image?

Unfortunately I do not have any website. The image has been built with ready binary packages essentially. Rather than having all this huge image (910MB) on a GitHub repo (I do not even know if this is allowed), it would be probably better to document the software components it consists of, where they come from, and the few lines of the configuration files and of the landing html page that have been changed to make them work together. Dropbox does not allow to add descriptions next to the link it seems.

[B.Goode]

The only requirement is that you have an official camera board connected to the Rpi; the microphone is optional. Audio and Video is bidirectional from/to any participant (each direction is optional).

How do you connect an (optional) microphone to an RPi, please?

[merlin]

How do you connect an (optional) microphone to an RPi, please?

with an USB soundcard with a mic input. fixed the post.

[luciancd]

has someone tried this out ?

[luciancd]

ok, so i am missing username and password. i can not log into the system.

pi / raspberry
root / root
etc.

Don't seem to work.

can you provide u/p ?

[luciancd]

ok, so i am missing username and password. i can not log into the system.

pi / raspberry
root / root
etc.

Don't seem to work.

can you provide u/p ?

i managed to log in using pi / pi