Federated conversations

[jancborchardt]

You should be able to call and chat with someone via federation through cloudname.com/username or something similar.

[netluxe]

Curious as to the progress/potentiality of this being integrated? What realistically would be necessary in order for it to work? Could a third-party integration (something akin to a security-hardening add-on like Google Authenticator or another TOTP provider for 2FA) plugin, setup strictly on a domain meant for linking participating separate nextcloud instances (i.e. nextcloudcalls.com or something like that) and write a script that generates an one-use authentication token upon the request to communicate via the video chat plugin? Kind of a trusted middleman service that facilitates the connection requests between the participants in a video or voice call. Would have to be something that kept the connection ultimately between the actual end-users' nextcloud servers themselves obviously.

There's a bunch of existing frameworks for videochat/voice chat, videochat + text-based chat simultaneously that shouldn't be too difficult to look into in terms of what might be best used to integrate into the existing architecture. Admittedly, I only recently deployed my own nextcloud server and have only had a few hours over the past couple of days to poke around the code. Been mostly busy setting up the essential stuff, and of course, transferring over a ton of files and obsessively setting up the filesystem/folder structure.

Anyway, just some thoughts. Will take a look on the nextcloud forums as well, perhaps I shall see some of you there (I'll have the same username) Cheers 👍

[klundry]

This is great to see! Once implemented would federated messaging work as well?

[matuszajac]

hello, any news in this section ?
I would to create federated conversation... NCTALK between two servers. (server have trust between)
but dont know how to start. i try with matterbridge nctalk, but no success.

[hex-m]

The people over in Matrix land work on a protocol for group calls involving multiple servers. There is a document and a talk explaining the details. Not saying that this is the way to go, but it may give some inspiration.

[chris-wilkinson-81]

Hi guys,

How do I build this project? I've downloaded the source into my custom_apps folder of my NextCloud instance. Do I cd into the custom_apps/spreed folder and run npm install followed by something else?

Thank you,

Chris

[nickvergessen]

If you just install it from the appstore you don't need to do anything:
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/spreed

If you want to work on it and develop, see the readme for instructions:
https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed#development-setup

[financelurker]

uhhh... I'd like to use that feature!

[maxwell-kalin]

same

[elhananjair]

Let's hope this feature might be included in Nextcloud 26 and one of the best features announced at the NC conference.

[Terraris]

Is there any progress on this issue? I could help implement this feature since I'd really like to use it 🙂 Get in touch, cheers

[eekhof]

I have no backhround im this whatsoever, but if I can somehow help to implement this I would be very glad to do so, I believe this is a very useful feature.

[iphydf]

There seems to be some activity here. Any progress? Any help needed?

[Thatoo]

Why not using the open source protocol Matrix to federate between servers?
It would make Nextcloud Talk integrate the Matrix network (increase both value of Netxcloud Talk and Matrix) and would solve this issue at the same time #809 .
Would it make Nextcloud Talk the best matrix client? Could be :-) some people will get that feeling.

[wargreen]

I give +[lot] for imagine matrix behind Talk.
It would be wonderful to have one client for all channels, inside or outside our NC, both on desktop and mobile.

But what about the integration of all the other NC apps ? Can we imagine a painless links of files, deck and all other for the groupware use ?

[MaykGyver]

Does the missing interoperability of talk/spreed across federated instances mean, that users in a Global Scale environment cannot chat and call each other?

[maxwell-kalin]

What is missing still?

[nickvergessen]

There are couple of things still open, but yes federated conversations exist by now.

I'll post a list of follow ups here, so we can close this meta issue:

• Attachment support: 🌐 Federated file sharing 📤 - Overview #11233
• Federated moderators: Allow federated users to be moderators #13702
• Federated one-to-one conversations: 1-to-1 federated conversations #13496
• Support federation without the High-performance backend: Support for internal signaling federation #12807

Other than that it seems to work quite well. Our team is using it on a daily basis to confirm full functionality.