The reason I’m looking into this is because it was used to host LibrePlanet 2024, and it supposedly uses fewer resources than Jitsi Meet (see also my Jitsi Meet notes). It seems like it provides its own TURN server, and otherwise seems lightweight and somewhat more pluggable than Jitsi Meet. It may be easier to record video than with Jitsi/Jibri, possibly? Galène is a much smaller project, though.
Links
- Homepage
- https://galene.org/
- Installation instructions
- https://galene.org/galene-install.html
- Galene documentation
- https://galene.org/galene.html
- FAQ
- https://galene.org/faq.html
- A presentation about it
- https://galene.org/galene-20210222.pdf
Configuration
I have got Galene working through NixOS, but haven’t yet updated my notes on it.
- TODO: I actually had to edit the
galene.nixservice (too restrictive systemd settings), so I need to post that here. - Configuration usually in
/var/lib/galene/ - Configuring groups by editing
/var/lib/galene/groups/somegroup.json - TODO: Probably should put galene and galenectl in the PATH.
galenectl hash-password
Issues
- One possible issue with Galène is that you may see a black screen when connecting because by default autoplay of audio is blocked by Firefox.