HiveTalk

HiveTalk is a Fork of MiroTalk SFU, with Nostr and Bitcoin Lightning Enhancements.

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Free WebRTC - SFU - Simple, Secure, Scalable Real-Time Video Conferences with support for up to 4k resolution. It's compatible with all major browsers and platforms

Explore HiveTalk

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Features

• Is 100% Free - Open Source (AGPLv3) - Self Hosted and PWA!
• Unlimited conference rooms with no time limitations.
• Live broadcasting streaming.
• Translated into 133 languages.
• Support for the OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication layer.
• Host protection to prevent unauthorized access.
• User auth to prevent unauthorized access.
• JWT.io securely manages credentials for host configurations and user authentication, enhancing security and streamlining processes.
• Room password protection.
• Room lobby, central gathering space.
• Room spam mitigations, focused on preventing spam.
• Geolocation, identification or estimation of the real-world geographic location of the participants.
• Compatible with desktop and mobile devices.
• Optimized mobile room URL sharing.
• Webcam streaming with front and rear camera support for mobile devices.
• Broadcasting, distribution of audio or video content to a wide audience.
• Crystal-clear audio streaming with speaking detection and volume indicators.
• Screen sharing for presentations.
• File sharing with drag-and-drop support.
• Choose your audio input, output, and video source.
• Supports video quality up to 4K.
• Supports advance Picture-in-Picture (PiP) offering a more streamlined and flexible viewing experience.
• Record your screen, audio, and video locally or on your Server.
• Snapshot video frames and save them as PNG images.
• Chat with an Emoji Picker for expressing feelings, private messages, Markdown support, and conversation saving.
• ChatGPT (powered by OpenAI) for answering questions, providing information, and connecting users to relevant resources.
• VideoAI enables users to customize AI avatars to deliver messages, perform tasks, or act out scripts.
• Speech recognition, execute the app features simply with your voice.
• Push-to-talk functionality, similar to a walkie-talkie.
• Advanced collaborative whiteboard for teachers.
• Advanced collaborative powerful rich text editor.
• Real-time sharing of YouTube embed videos, video files (MP4, WebM, OGG), and audio files (MP3).
• Real-time polls, allows users to create and participate in live polls, providing instant feedback and results.
• Integrated RTMP server, fully compatible with OBS.
• Supports RTMP streaming from files, URLs, webcams, screens, and windows.
• Full-screen mode with one-click video element zooming and pin/unpin.
• Customizable UI themes.
• Right-click options on video elements for additional controls.
• Supports REST API (Application Programming Interface).
• Integration with Slack for enhanced communication.
• Utilizes Sentry for error reporting.
• And much more...

Direct Join

• You can directly join a room by using link like:

• https://hivetalk.org/join?room=test&roomPassword=0&name=hivetalksfu&audio=0&video=0&screen=0&notify=0

  Params	Type	Description
  room	string	Room Id
  roomPassword	string/boolean	Room password
  name	string	User name
  audio	boolean	Audio stream
  video	boolean	Video stream
  screen	boolean	Screen stream
  notify	boolean	Welcome message
  hide	boolean	Hide myself
  token	string	JWT

Host Protection Configuration

When host.protected or host.user_auth is enabled, the host/users can provide a valid token for direct joining the room as specified in the app/src/config.js file.

Params	Value	Description
host.protected	true if protection is enabled, false if not (default false)	Requires the host to provide a valid username and password during room initialization.
host.user_auth	true if user authentication is required, false if not (default false).	Determines whether host authentication is required.
host.users	JSON array with user objects: {"username": "username", "password": "password"}	List of valid host users with their credentials.

Example:

    host: {
        protected: true,
        user_auth: true,
        users: [
            {
                username: 'username',
                password: 'password',
            },
            {
                username: 'username2',
                password: 'password2',
            },
            //...
        ],
    },

Embed a meeting

To embed a meeting within your service or app using an iframe, you can use the following code:

<iframe
    allow="camera; microphone; display-capture; fullscreen; clipboard-read; clipboard-write; autoplay"
    src="https://hivetalk.org/newroom"
    style="height: 100vh; width: 100vw; border: 0px;"
></iframe>

Quick Start

• Before running HiveTalk SFU, ensure you have Node.js and all requirements installed. This project has been tested with Node version 18.X.

• Requirements install example for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

# Gcc g++ make
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install -y build-essential
# Python 3.8 and pip
$ DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y tzdata
$ apt install -y software-properties-common
$ add-apt-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
$ apt update
$ apt install -y python3.8 python3-pip
# FFmpeg
$ apt install -y ffmpeg

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Install NodeJS 18.X and npm using Node Version Manager

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• Start the server

# Clone this repo
$ git clone https://github.com/HiveTalk/hivetalksfu.git
# Go to to dir hivetalksfu
$ cd hivetalksfu
# Copy app/src/config.template.js in app/src/config.js and edit it if needed
$ cp app/src/config.template.js app/src/config.js
# Install dependencies - be patient, the first time will take a few minutes, in the meantime have a good coffee ;)
$ npm install
# Start the server
$ npm start
# If you want to start the server on a different port than the default use an env var
$ PORT=3011 npm start

• Open https://localhost:3010 or :3011 if the default port has been changed in your browser.

[!NOTE]

To run HiveTalk SFU on a Windows operating system, you can follow the instructions provided in this documentation.

Docker

• Repository docker hub
• Install docker engine and docker compose

# Copy app/src/config.template.js in app/src/config.js IMPORTANT (edit it according to your needs)
$ cp app/src/config.template.js app/src/config.js
# Copy docker-compose.template.yml in docker-compose.yml and edit it if needed
$ cp docker-compose.template.yml docker-compose.yml
# (Optional) Get official image from Docker Hub
$ docker-compose pull
# Create and start containers
$ docker-compose up # -d
# To stop and remove resources
$ docker-compose down

• Open https://localhost:3010 in your browser.

Documentations

• Ngrok/HTTPS: You can start a video conference directly from your local PC and make it accessible from any device outside your network by following these instructions, or expose it directly on HTTPS.

• Self-hosting: For self-hosting HiveTalk SFU on your own dedicated server, please refer to this comprehensive guide. It will provide you with all the necessary instructions to get your HiveTalk SFU instance up and running smoothly.

• Rest API: The API documentation uses swagger at https://localhost:3010/api/v1/docs or check it on live here.

# The response will give you the active meetings (default disabled).
$ curl -X GET "http://localhost:3010/api/v1/meetings" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
$ curl -X GET "https://sfu.mirotalk.com/api/v1/meetings" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
# The response will give you a entrypoint / Room URL for your meeting.
$ curl -X POST "http://localhost:3010/api/v1/meeting" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
$ curl -X POST "https://sfu.mirotalk.com/api/v1/meeting" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
# The response will give you a entrypoint / URL for the direct join to the meeting.
$ curl -X POST "http://localhost:3010/api/v1/join" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"room":"test","roomPassword":"false","name":"mirotalksfu","audio":"false","video":"false","screen":"false","notify":"false"}'
$ curl -X POST "https://sfu.mirotalk.com/api/v1/join" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"room":"test","roomPassword":"false","name":"mirotalksfu","audio":"false","video":"false","screen":"false","notify":"false"}'
# The response will give you a entrypoint / URL for the direct join to the meeting with a token.
$ curl -X POST "http://localhost:3010/api/v1/join" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"room":"test","roomPassword":"false","name":"mirotalksfu","audio":"false","video":"false","screen":"false","notify":"false","token":{"username":"username","password":"password","presenter":"true", "expire":"1h"}}'
$ curl -X POST "https://sfu.mirotalk.com/api/v1/join" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"room":"test","roomPassword":"false","name":"mirotalksfu","audio":"false","video":"false","screen":"false","notify":"false","token":{"username":"username","password":"password","presenter":"true", "expire":"1h"}}'
# The response will give you a valid token for a meeting (default diabled)
$ curl -X POST "http://localhost:3010/api/v1/token" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"username":"username","password":"password","presenter":"true", "expire":"1h"}'
$ curl -X POST "https://sfu.mirotalk.com/api/v1/token" -H "authorization: mirotalksfu_default_secret" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"username":"username","password":"password","presenter":"true", "expire":"1h"}'

Credits

• Davide Pacilio (html template)
• Dirk Vanbeveren (sfu logic)
• Mediasoup (sfu server)

Contributing

• Contributions are welcome and greatly appreciated!
• Just run before npm run lint

License

HiveTalk SFU is free and open-source under the terms of AGPLv3 (GNU Affero General Public License v3.0). Please respect the license conditions, In particular modifications need to be free as well and made available to the public. Get a quick overview of the license at Choose an open source license.

Contributors

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This project is tested with BrowserStack.

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