Wirow video conferencing platform

https://wirow.io

A full featured self-hosted video web-conferencing platform shipped as a single executable.

• Works on Linux and FreeBSD.
• Single executable, no setup is required.
• Let's Encrypt integration - instant SSL certs generation for your web-conferencing host.
• Unlimited meeting rooms and webinars.
• Integrated whiteboard.
• Video calls recording.
• Low memory/CPU consumption due to lighting fast core engine written in C.

Licensing

Wirow platform community edition is distributed under terms of AGPLv3 license

For a license to use the Wirow software under conditions other than AGPLv3, or for technical support for this software, please contact us at info@wirow.io

How to get support

If you have a question, advice or an issue related to your server setup ask for help at Wirow Discussion Group. Please be patient and note what project maintainers have limited time provide a free support on this forum.

Fill an Issue If you believe that Wirow has a software bug.

Intro

Guides

• Wirow Server Administrator's Guide (pdf)
• Wirow Server Configuration Reference

Software used by Wirow

• IWNET - Asynchronous HTTP Library
• EJDB2 - Embeddable JSON Database engine
• Mediasoup - C++ WebRTC SFU router
• Excalidraw - A Whiteboard Web UI
• FFmpeg
• Sentry error reporting
• Svelte Frontend Framework

Docker Image

Wirow server Dockerfile

cd ./docker
docker build --no-cache --force-rm -t wirow .

Please mind about the following volume dirs defined in Dokerfile:

• /data Where wirow database, uploads and room recordings are located.
• /config/wirow.ini A server configuration file.

Before starting Wirow docker container

• Read the Wirow server Administrator's Guide
• Review /config/wirow.ini ip/network options, ssl certs section (if you don't plan to use Let's Encrypt).

Basic check of Wirow server availability:

docker run --rm wirow -h

You have three options how to run a Wirow server:

• Wirow server on your domain with Let's Encrypt HTTPS Certificates. (Recommended)
• Wirow server on your host with own HTTPS certificates.
• Wirow server behind HTTP proxy.

Wirow server on your domain with Let's Encrypt Certificates (Recommended)

Please check what your host is accessible by your domain name and 80/443, 44300-44600 tcp/udp ports are accessible.

Example:

# Below `start01` is the initial password for `admin` user

docker run --name wirow wirow -n mywirow.example.com -a start01

Later you may change your password and manage users by Admin UI.

Wirow server on your host with own HTTPS certificates

Here is the Example:

WIROWSRC=<path to wirow cloned repo>
WORKDIR=<path to my workdir>

mkdir -p ${WORKDIR}/config
cd ${WORKDIR}/config

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 3650 -newkey ec:<(openssl ecparam -name prime256v1) \
          -keyout wirow-eckey.pem -out wirow-ecdsacert.pem

cp ${WIROWSRC}/docker/wirow.ini ./wirow.ini

echo -e '\n\n[main]' >> ./wirow.ini
echo 'cert_file = {config_file_dir}/wirow-ecdsacert.pem' >> ./wirow.ini
echo 'cert_key_file = {config_file_dir}/wirow-eckey.pem' >> ./wirow.ini

# Below `start01` is the initial password for admin user

docker run --name wirow -v ${WORKDIR}/config:/config wirow -a start01

23 Apr 17:15:06.543 INFO: main:ip=auto
23 Apr 17:15:06.543 INFO: main:data=/data
23 Apr 17:15:06.543 INFO: rtc:ports=44300..44600
23 Apr 17:15:06.543 INFO: main:cert_file=/config/wirow-ecdsacert.pem
23 Apr 17:15:06.543 INFO: main:cert_key_file=/config/wirow-eckey.pem
23 Apr 17:15:06.543 INFO: Number of workers: 6
23 Apr 17:15:06.544 INFO: Autodetected external IP address for wirow server: 172.17.0.2
23 Apr 17:15:06.544 INFO: Opening /data/wirow.db
23 Apr 17:15:06.791 INFO: Server on: 172.17.0.2:443
23 Apr 17:15:06.791 INFO: HTTP/HTTPS redirect port: 80

Point your browser https://172.17.0.2 (specific to this example) then use admin/start01 credentials at login page. Later you may change your password and manage users by Admin UI.

Wirow server behind HTTP proxy

Please refer to Wirow server Administrator's Guide

Building from sources by hands

Build Prerequisites

• Linux or FreeBSD
• Git
• CMake v3.18+
• GNU Make, autoconf, automake, libtool, ninja (optional)
• Nodejs v16+ and Yarn package manager v1.22+
• Clang C/C++ compiler v10+ or GCC v9+
• yasm assembler (yasm) needed by FFmpeg
• Python 3 pip package manager (python3-pip)

Example of prerequisite software installation on Debian/Ubuntu Linux:

apt-get install -y apt-utils software-properties-common \
                   apt-transport-https sudo curl wget gpg

wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc 2>/dev/null \
       | gpg --dearmor -i \
       | tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/kitware.gpg >/dev/null
wget -qO- https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | bash -
wget -qO- https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add -

apt-add-repository -y 'deb https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ focal main'
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

apt-get update
apt-get install -y autoconf automake pkgconf \
  binutils build-essential ca-certificates cmake \
  g++ gcc git libtool make ninja-build nodejs python-is-python3 yarn \
  yasm python3-pip

Building

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/wirow-io/wirow-server.git

mkdir -p ./wirow-server/build && cd ./wirow-server/build

cmake ..  -G Ninja \
          -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
          -DIW_EXEC=ON
ninja

Wirow build artifacts are located here:

 ./build/src/wirow    # Stripped binary
 ./build/src/wirow_g  # Binary with debug symbols (Not stripped)

Guides

• Wirow Server Administrator's Guide (pdf)
• Wirow Server Configuration Reference

License

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2022 Greenrooms, Inc.
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 * the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free
 * Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
 * later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
 * FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more
 * details.
 *
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 * along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
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