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90 lines
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title: "Jitsi"
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category: "Communication"
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tagline: "Video meetings in the browser, with no downloads or accounts needed for guests."
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replaces: ["Zoom", "Google Meet", "Microsoft Teams meetings", "Webex"]
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address: "jitsi.example.com"
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website: "https://jitsi.org/"
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upstreamDocs: "https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/category/user-guide/"
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links:
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- name: "Jitsi Meet user guide"
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url: "https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/category/user-guide/"
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- name: "Keyboard shortcuts"
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url: "https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/user-guide-keyboard-shortcuts"
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- name: "Jitsi Meet mobile apps"
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url: "https://jitsi.org/downloads/"
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---
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## Overview
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Jitsi Meet is a video conferencing app that runs in the browser. You start a meeting by giving it a name, and anyone with the link can join from a browser or the Jitsi Meet mobile app. Guests don't need an account.
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Main capabilities:
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- HD video and audio, **screen sharing**, and tile or speaker views.
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- **Chat**, **raise hand**, reactions, and **polls**.
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- **Lobby** (waiting room) and **meeting passwords**.
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- **Moderator controls** to mute participants, ask them to turn on video, or remove them.
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- **Breakout rooms**.
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- **Background blur** and virtual backgrounds.
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- Calendar integration through a meeting link you can paste anywhere.
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### What it replaces
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Jitsi replaces Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams meetings, and Webex for most day-to-day calls, with no per-host licences or time limits.
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## Start a meeting
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1. Open your Jitsi address.
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2. Type a meeting name, such as `weekly-ops-review`, and choose **Start meeting**. Use names that are hard to guess for private meetings.
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{{< screenshot src="jitsi/start-meeting.png" alt="The Jitsi Meet start page with a meeting name typed in" caption="The Jitsi start page." >}}
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3. If your server requires it, sign in with your organization account to create the meeting. Guests can still join without signing in once you're there.
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4. Allow your browser to use your camera and microphone.
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{{< screenshot src="jitsi/join-meeting.png" alt="The Jitsi pre-join screen with a name field, Join meeting button, and microphone and camera controls" caption="Before you join: enter your name and check your microphone and camera." >}}
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5. Share the link from the **Invite people** button, or copy the address from your browser.
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Add the meeting link to a calendar invite in [Nextcloud](/apps/nextcloud/) or a booking type in [Cal.com](/apps/calcom/) so people can join with one click.
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## During a meeting
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| Want to | Do this |
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| --- | --- |
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| Mute or unmute | Microphone button, or press <kbd>M</kbd> |
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| Turn the camera on or off | Camera button, or press <kbd>V</kbd> |
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| Share your screen | Screen share button, or press <kbd>D</kbd> |
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| Raise your hand | Hand button, or press <kbd>R</kbd> |
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| Open chat | Chat button, or press <kbd>C</kbd> |
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| Switch tile view | Tile button, or press <kbd>W</kbd> |
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| Blur your background | **…** menu, then **Select background** |
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Use headphones to avoid echo, and a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave) for the best performance.
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## Secure a meeting
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As the moderator (usually the person who started the meeting):
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- Open **Security options** (the shield) to **enable the lobby**. You'll be asked to admit each person.
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- Set a **meeting password** in the same panel and share it separately from the link.
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- From a participant's tile menu, mute, **kick**, or **grant moderator** rights.
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- Choose **Mute everyone** from the participants panel for large meetings.
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## Breakout rooms
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From the participants panel, choose **Add breakout room**, then drag or assign people. Participants can also move between rooms themselves. Close the rooms to bring everyone back to the main meeting.
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## Join from a phone
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Install **Jitsi Meet** from the App Store or Google Play. In the app's **Settings**, set **Server URL** to your Jitsi address so meetings open on your server rather than the public meet.jit.si service.
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## Superpanel settings
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{{< review "confirm Superpanel option names for Jitsi, and whether recording/streaming are available." >}}
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- **Access**: choose whether creating meetings requires signing in. Requiring sign-in stops strangers from using your server for their own meetings; guests can still join meetings you start.
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Recording and live streaming need an extra component (Jibri) that isn't part of every installation. Ask Federated Computer if you need them.
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