Pandemy, a new viral chat / webrtc client





HTML5 clients features
- chat with public/private messages + emotes
- upload/sharing of pictures < 2Mo
- audio/video webrtc client
- desktop sharing in read only mode
- clients for desktop and mobile
- license GPLv2 (so real free software, and not industrial open source)
- tested with Firefox and Chromium - forget IE/Edge - no interest to loose my time with microsoft
- TODO : client translation in others languages - help wanted !
- TODO : use a FSU server instead of the current TURN/STUN server in mesh mode, to avoid disconnections of people with slow upload bandwith - especially those connected in ADSL.
Online demo
- Instance 1 : Desktop version / Mobile version
- Instance 2 : Desktop version / Mobile version
- Instance 3 : Desktop version / Mobile version
Architecture
- You need a Virtual Private Server in the cloud, with apache2+letsencrypt already installed and running.
- Then you must set a STUN/TURN server to relay audio/video trafic between peers. I choose the coturn package from the Ubuntu, but any other STUN/TURNS server should work. Just remember than TURNS listen incoming connections on the TCP 5349 port, and use the UDP range from 49152 to 65535, so if you use a firewall, be aware to let these ports open !
- Then you need the server part of Pandemy, to provide a websocket, listening on a public TCP port > 1024. This websocket will relay text messages and pictures from the chat, and text signals beetween WebRTC peers.
- Then finally, you just need to install the Pandemy clients on your web server : one for desktops and the other for mobiles devices.
- That's all folks !
Configuration / Help
- The HOWTO files, in both server and client archives, will help you to configure Pandemy on your own VPS.
Download project sources
- server side (need node js + letsencrypt)
- client side (need apache2 + letsencrypt)
- Please report any bug to contact@alsatux.com.
Version notes
- 1.2
- Add hundreds of new emotes !
- Small bug fixes.
- Code cleanup.
- 1.1
- Sharing screen in read only mode added.
- Emotes added.
- CSS bug correction with DarkReader.
- CSS bug in mobile client.
- Several others improvements.
- 1.0
- Initial public release.