How to Enable Remote Control ?

[gulteking]

Hi,

Remote control has been implemented as i see from commits and source.
But i couldn't find any documentation or guide about how can we use this feature.
i also tried to do remote control from meet.jit.si, but couldn't find anything.

i have an ubuntu 16.04 server, installed jitsi-meet from jitsi repositories (apt install jitsi-meet).
After i enable desktopSharing from config.js file, what are next steps?

Thans, regards.

[damencho]

Hi, when having questions or problems, please use the mailinglist before opening an issue.

For the controlled part you need to use desktop client, which is based on electron https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron. The controlling client can be web. Keep in mind that this is still work in progress.

[MurzNN]

@gulteking Did you find the way to enable Screen Remote Control feature on jitsi-meet-electron?

[arts111188]

Hi,

Please could you share some information regarding Screen Remote Control feature like how to enable it in Jitsi Meet and use it.

[clayrisser]

Hey, I can't figure out how to enable it

[damencho]

There is nothing to enable. Just the participant that will be controlled needs to be running jitsi-meet inside the jitsi-meet-electron app https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron. The controlling part can still be on regular chrome.

[clayrisser]

How do you run jitsi-meet inside the electron app? Like what button do I push to activate it? I can't find anything about controlling a screen in jitsi-meet-electron.

[clayrisser]

Oh, I finally figured it out. I don't know why it took me so long to find the place to take control.

[MurzNN]

Confirm that the place is hard to find, will be good to place this feature in more visible place in interface.

[clayrisser]

I don't think the location is the problem. The real problem is the docs.

[tuxayo]

@damencho

There is nothing to enable. Just the participant that will be controlled needs to be running jitsi-meet inside the jitsi-meet-electron app https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron. The controlling part can still be on regular chrome.

Thanks, I would never have found without your help!
This feature is huge, I wasn't seeing an easy alternative to TeamViewer until then.

[tuxayo]

@codejamninja

I don't think the location is the problem. The real problem is the docs.

Thanks you for your screenshot!
Maybe the location isn't intuitive? Or should there be a visual hint/message about remote control when screensharing is started from Jitsi Meet desktop?

[hpcbjdic]

Hi,

unfortunately I can't see the "Remote control" button as depicted in the screenshot above. "Kick out", "Mute" and "Mute all" is there but not "Remote control".
I'm using https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases v.1.1.0, the other side is using Chromium @ Linux.

Is someone out there who has ideas and can help me?

Best,
Björn

[sushantdanekar]

Is it possible to enable remote control menu in web version ?

[gulteking]

@sushantdanekar as i know, it s not possible to allow control your pc from web browser. Because you can't allow to control your desktop from your browser.

You can only control another pc from browser app.

[MurzNN]

But Chrome Remote Desktop solve this limitation via WebExtension, can Jitsi implement same way?

[saghul]

I don’t think it’s just a web extension, that may enable some functionality in the browser itself.

[ghost]

Hi all,

Apart from the jitsi electron based desktop app, is there any other way to enable remote desktop control through jitsi ? We have installed standalone jitsi-meet as well as containerised jitsi-meet application in our servers and we have embedded jitsi into our custom application through external jitsi APIs. So, I wanted to ask if it’s possible to enable remote desktop control feature through external jitsi APIs ?

@damencho your kind help here will be highly appreciated.

[damencho]

There is nothing to enable through external API, if you add the electron-utils to your electron app as in the example when running the client in electron, will see and advertise the new feature ...

[jeisoncp]

Hi,

unfortunately I can't see the "Remote control" button as depicted in the screenshot above. "Kick out", "Mute" and "Mute all" is there but not "Remote control".
I'm using https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases v.1.1.0, the other side is using Chromium @ Linux.

Is someone out there who has ideas and can help me?

Best,
Björn

It was disabled because of a security issue: jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron#431

[Raajprabhuc]

Hi,

I need to know how to enable remote control option via cli in Jitsu meet standalone server
Is there any option available to enable remote control option to view on screen

[saghul]

It's not possible to enable it unless you rebuild the app yourself.

[builder555]

without digging too much through the code, is the security issue inherent to electron? the advisory doesn't provide those details.

[rima1881]

Hi,

unfortunately I can't see the "Remote control" button as depicted in the screenshot above. "Kick out", "Mute" and "Mute all" is there but not "Remote control". I'm using https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases v.1.1.0, the other side is using Chromium @ Linux.

Is someone out there who has ideas and can help me?

Best, Björn

Hi
you have to change two bools for enabling remote control. The first one is in the main the other one is in conference.js