Book keeping: third party integrations

[matiasilva]

This is a list of existing community-sourced third party integrations for BigBlueButton. For now, it's just a list until a section for this is created.

Recording & live streaming:

• RTMP, recording to one file (has Docker): https://github.com/jibon57/bbb-recorder
• RTMP streaming (Docker): https://github.com/aau-zid/BigBlueButton-liveStreaming
• Post-publish script for rendering to one file: https://github.com/tilmanmoser/bbb-video-download
• Opencast Integration

Others

• Remote VNC control: https://github.com/BrentBaccala/collaborate
• Load testing servers: https://github.com/mconf/bigbluebot
• Testing API calls: https://github.com/mconf/api-mate

Greenlight

• REST API for Greenlight: https://github.com/aau-zid/scheduLight/
• Better auth for recordings: https://github.com/ichdasich/bbb-rec-perm

Scalelite

(not in core, probably doesn't belong here)

• JS API for Scalelite: https://github.com/aakatev/scalelite-js/

BigBlueButton SDKs

• JS SDK for BBB: https://github.com/aakatev/bigbluebutton-js
• PHP SDK for Laravel: https://github.com/joisarjignesh/bigbluebutton
• Improved PHP SDK: https://github.com/littleredbutton/bigbluebutton-api-php
• Python SDK: https://edugit.org/infrablue/python-bigbluebutton2
• Rust: https://gitlab.senfcall.de/senfcall-public/senfi
• .NET: https://github.com/Knight1988/BigBlueButtonApi
• Ruby: https://github.com/mconf/bigbluebutton-api-ruby

Deployment

• Terraform + Ansible for AWS: https://github.com/aakatev/bigbluebutton-infra
• Ansible + Kubernetes: https://github.com/elhoutico/bbb-scalelite-ansible-k8s (needs to be added to docs)
• Another Ansible setup: https://codeberg.org/DigitalSouveraeneSchule/bbb
• The other playbooks mentioned in the docs
• Most up-to-date version of BBB on Docker: https://github.com/alangecker/bigbluebutton-docker
• BBB exporter for prometheus: https://github.com/greenstatic/bigbluebutton-exporter

Frontends

• Easy join (no login, just create a meeting name): https://github.com/stadtulm/bbb-easy-join
• Django: https://edugit.org/infrablue/infrablue
• Frontend, load balancer and full solution for managing BBB servers: https://gitlab.com/bbbatscale/bbbatscale
• Vue.js + Laravel (PHP): https://github.com/THM-Health/PILOS
• OpenOLAT (german release notes)

Sources: a few of the above have created other tools, one of them is https://gitlab.senfcall.de/senfcall-public

[hex-m]

Frontends: Moodle, OpenOLAT (german release notes)

Recording: Opencast Integration

[matiasilva]

Thanks @hex-m!!

[pedrobmarin]

https://github.com/mconf has a dozen of public bbb-related projects including things like https://github.com/mconf/api-mate & https://github.com/mconf/bigbluebot.

[ffdixon]

This list is looking good -- go ahead and open a pull request for updating the docs when your ready.

[stefantruehl]

We recently developed a substitute for greenlight and Scalelite as an integrated portal for large scale deployment - called BBB@Scale. Just in case you want to add this on the list: https://gitlab.com/bbbatscale/bbbatscale

A comparison of all three tools can be found here: https://gitlab.com/bbbatscale/bbbatscale/-/blob/master/Documentation/compare-to-scalelite-greenlite.md

We are currently planning to have closed the feature gap between Greenlight/Scalelite and bbb@scale by November. If you are interested, we have a public community call coming up where we will describe our upcoming 2.0.

[matiasilva]

@stefantruehl many thanks, this is already on the list under frontends :)

[hex-m]

This is a list of existing community-sourced third party integrations for BigBlueButton. For now, it's just a list until a section for this is created.

There is already a section for this on the website. This should be merged I think.

[matiasilva]

Not all of these are LMS integrations so I don't believe it should be merged.

[lonesomewalker]

@stefantruehl sorry, your comparison list is totally wrong. How do you want to compare Greenlight with Scalelite? Totally different products (frontend vs. backend) so they can't be compared.

Sure, BBB@Scale has some nice features but one of the biggest disadvantages is the multi-server scenario in Moodle :-( I know that your university is different from others ;-)

[hex-m]

The LMS Stud.IP can also integrate BBB.

And there is a Widget (in early dev stages) that can integrate BBB Meetings into Matrix Rooms.

[Puschek]

@stefantruehl sorry, your comparison list is totally wrong. How do you want to compare Greenlight with Scalelite? Totally different products (frontend vs. backend) so they can't be compared.

Sure, BBB@Scale has some nice features but one of the biggest disadvantages is the multi-server scenario in Moodle :-( I know that your university is different from others ;-)

@lonesomewalker Could you explain what do you mean with "multi-server scenario"? The Moodle Plugin only allows you to connect one url. BBB@Scale is distributing the request to the corresponding server based on the tenant provided with the url.

[hex-m]

• Nextcloud as a BBB-Frontend: https://github.com/sualko/cloud_bbb/
• There was a Frontend implemented for the Linux Plumbers Conference 2020. Details, link to source and a screenshot in this article.

[lonesomewalker]

Simple PHP dashboard:

https://github.com/lonesomewalker/bbb-dashboard

[liske]

B3LB

https://github.com/DE-IBH/b3lb

A open source BigBlueButton API load balancer similar to Scalelite. It is designed to work in large scale-out deployments with 100+ BigBlueButton nodes and high attendee join rates.

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[hex-m]

I don't think this issue is completed (and I don't like the bot).

[GhaziTriki]

Hello @matiasilva,

There is currently a repository that lists integrations and some other awesome stuff for BigBlueButton here https://github.com/riadvice/awesome-bigbluebutton.

You are welcome to contribute.