bbb-easy-join
An easy frontend to BigBlueButton without signups - everybody can just entry a meeting room name, the first user gets moderator level access.
Setup
Tested with an BBB instance installed with bbb-install.sh.
Checkout this repository to /var/www/bbb-easy-join
git clone https://github.com/stadtulm/bbb-easy-join.git /var/www/bbb-easy-join
sudo chown -r bigbluebutton: /var/www/bbb-easy-join
sudo -iu bigbluebutton
cd /var/www/bbb-easy-join
npm install
Create an .env file (use .env.sample as a template) and enter your BBB API URL and Secret there. You can get these by running sudo bbb-conf --secret.
For serving the pages, copy bbb-easy-join.nginx to /etc/bigbluebutton/nginx/. If there are already greenlight-redirect.nginx and/or greenlight.nginx, rename (remove the .nginx suffix) or delete them.
If you want to keep the service running, the systemd service file bbb-easy-join.service can be copied to /etc/systemd/system/ and activated by sudo systemctl daemon-reload, sudo systemctl enable bbb-easy-join and sudo systemctl start bbb-easy-join.
Note
Your BigBlueButton Instance is then (if not only reachable from inside your network) public, everybody can create and moderate/present in a meeting. Therefore, you may want to think about disabling recordings, the security of accepting presentation files etc.
Credits
HTML template, css and images are from the bigbluebutton default pages.
BigBlueButton and the BigBlueButton Logo are trademarks of BigBlueButton Inc.