I spent 1.5h trying to setup a Jitsi meet instance on my NixOS install, unsuccessfully.

I’ve given up for now. If you have good resources or are willing to help, that’s really appreciated!

#jitsi #jitsimeet #nixos

A few constraints/notes:
* room creation must be reserved to authenticated users
* no separate identity provider (e.g. keycloak) unless absolutely necessary
* I only have a dozen of users so it’s ok to set them up manually
* users should be able to change their password themselves
* anonymous users must be able to join
* the service will be under a subdomain
* I have no XMPP experience
* I’m using caddy, not nginx
* I’d like to keep user creation declarative if possible

I tried the basic setup mentioned in the NixOS manual and blog post but I don’t know how to create users after enabling services.jitsi-meet.secureDomain.enable.

If I leave it disabled, the call crashes as soon as a second user joins.

@Crocmagnon I just set up a test instance of Jitsi on Debian 12 and I had this very same problem, of ending the meeting as soon as a second attendee joined.

I restarted Prosody and the two Jitisi systemd units, and that solved it.

Now, my problem is that it takes for ever to create a meeting / room (about 1 - 2 minutes) — this was also a problem before. 😕

@michelamarie I gave up on Jitsi and installed Galène, as suggested by @raboof. It works and was very easy to setup.

#galene