jitsi-meet-electron VS Remotely

Came across [Jitsi](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/tag/v2023.7.2) and [BigBlueButton](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton), does anyone have experience of running these or others in production?

I spent hours last night trying to re-enable remote control on Jitsi's electron app with no luck[1]. Are there any other good open source tools out there for remote controlling a friends' computer screen on a call?

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/877

I love Jitsi Meet. My friends and I started using it during COVID and it's constantly improved. I host my own instance using docker and it's a breeze.

One issue that really prevents us replacing Mumble with it completely is lack of Push-to-talk [1], which is necessary for gaming etc. Do you know of anyone working on a native desktop app (open source or otherwise)?

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/210

Yes, it happens in other Electron apps too. I found this: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/442

Jitsi Meet is used directly in the browser. Like at this address: https://meet.jit.si. You can also set up your own instance.

A desktop client also exists for Windows, macOS, Linux: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron - kind of not really advertised, provides remote desktop control.

You can turn on end-to-end encryption (e2ee) as long as you are using Jitsi Meet on a browser with support for insertable streams. Currently this means any browser based on Chromium 83 and above, including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Brave and Opera. You may also use our Electron client, which supports it out of the box.

Support is there, but not enabled for some reason. This issue on Jitsi application (also using Electron which is Chrome stuff) shows the location of real problem.

You will need a client. Browsers typically cannot type in other apps. Something that's free, open source, and runs on all platforms is Jitsi Meet. If you install the client, you'll have an option for "Remote control". I personally like that I'm in a call with the other person at the same time.

We focus on the apps on mobile, on desktop we recommend the browser, but we also have an Electron app: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron

Following the comments in this thread, I should see an input for Server URL when building the client application with GitHub actions, however it's not there. Yes I forked the official GitHub repo.

Are you sure? It seems to be thriving under new management.

Site to site VPN if you have access to your locations' firewalls, otherwise some raspberry pis and https://github.com/immense/Remotely or any RMM.

I have another suggestion, have a look at Remotely. I only just looked into this and spun up a container to play around with. It's very similar to TeamViewer in that:

The closets open source alternative to Tactical RMM, I would say it's Immense Networks Remotely. It offers unattended remote access, as well as quicksupport feature like Teamviewer. It also has limited support for running scripts on one or many hosts which in effect allows doing some functions like that of Tactical RMM, however it doesn't give your same detailed device inventory as Tactical RMM, it doesn't monitor performance and you can't setup alarms as you can in TRMM. https://github.com/immense/Remotely

if you feel comfortable self hosting: https://github.com/immense/Remotely

Edit: For anyone who wants to follow: https://github.com/immense/Remotely/issues/553