Set jitsi server in element desktop conf not working

[Thatoo]

I have Element 1.7.29 on Pop OS 20.10 I did

nano ~/.config/Element/config.json

The file was not existing. I copy paste in it the following, as explained in here https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/blob/develop/docs/jitsi.md

{
  "jitsi": {
    "preferredDomain": "jitsi.xxx.fr"
  }
}

then I restarted Element and when I click on camera call button in a room, it creates a jitsi.riot.im call and not a jitsi.xxx.fr call as expected.

[robintown]

Was the ~/.config/Element directory already existing? Is there a ~/.config/Riot directory you could try putting the config in?

[Thatoo]

~/.config/Element directory was existing and there is no ~/.config/Riot directory. There was a ~/.config/Element/electron-config.json file though but I didn't modify this one. I wonder if I should not modify that file instead of creating ~/.config/Element/config.json ...

[Thatoo]

By the way, I found this setting quiet complicated to set. Why not adding an option inside "Audio and Video" call settings of Element, where we set Audio output and Input and Camera...?

[cajus]

It's not exactly the same issue, but it seems like if I'm serving element-web locally, the config.json settings for

{
  "jitsi": {
    "preferredDomain": "jitsi.xxx.fr"
  }
}

doesn't seem to have any effect at all. It always connects to jitsi.riot.im. Is this expected?

[t3chguy]

doesn't seem to have any effect at all. It always connects to jitsi.riot.im. Is this expected?

How are you creating your conferences?

[cajus]

I'm inside of a private room and press the "call" button on top of the room chat. Then the jitsi widget loads, offering a button "Join conference". Pressing this button leads to a connection to jitsi.riot.im.

Sorry if I'm completely misunderstanding it - I'm currently in "getting started with matrix" mode ;-)

[crjo]

Hi there, i see that some people is able to configure a self jitsi server using Jitsi preferred domain, so is the issue still open or have i missed some configuration ?

[photoninger]

camelCase "preferredDomain" works for me, snake_case "preferred_domain" not. But camelCase is deprecated says https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/blob/develop/docs/config.md

[t3chguy]

Hmm both should work in config.json, only camel in well-known/matrix/client

[elchako]

config.json Good evening, everyone! I have the same problem. I'm launching element web in docker. The config file is attached.json from docker itself. I added it and tried to add preferred Domain and preferred_domain

It opens anyway https://meet.element.io/

Thank you for any help!

[crjo]

config.json Good evening, everyone! I have the same problem. I'm launching element web in docker. The config file is attached.json from docker itself. I added it and tried to add preferred Domain and preferred_domain

It opens anyway https://meet.element.io/

Thank you for any help!

Hi,

From our experience, that depends on the client you use :

• Element-web : configuration is read from config.json file on server
• Element-desktop : configuration is read from config.json file on user computer
• Other : if no local config.json found, it reads /.well-known/matrix/client (this must be hosted at : https://example.com/.well-known/matrix/client, your matrix ID being @my.name:example.com) described there

And it depends how you are starting a call.

We found that in a new room if you add the Jitsi Widget and then start a call from the widget you open meet.element.io If you start a call without adding the widget, it's added automaticaly and you open the jitsi from config.json.

[elchako]

@crjo Thank you for the full answer!

[t3chguy]

Yeah if you add the widget manually then https://github.com/element-hq/element-integration-manager does not respect your config and does always use meet.element.io

[mikebakke]

Can someone explain what "adding a widget" means? I am just running the web-app in a docker, created the config.json which I know is accessed because the other configurations I put in are honoured. I just start a conversation with a user, press the call button and it always starts the call on default not my own jitsi instance.

Having maybe seen that 1:1 is always internal I created a call with 3 users and the result is identical.

OK - I figured out the widget part and ensured I was not - simply clicking on the call button. Regardless of what I try a call is never set up on my jitsi instance.

[janonym1]

Yeah if you add the widget manually then https://github.com/element-hq/element-integration-manager does not respect your config and does always use meet.element.io

I made an issue regarding this behaviour here: https://github.com/element-hq/element-integration-manager/issues/131