Raspberry Pi 4 Jitsi Server

I know you can run a Jitsi server on a Raspberry Pi 4. But is it any good? That’s something I wanted to find out.

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Parts List

• Broadband internet connection with no blocked ports. 
• A router capable of port forwarding. 
• Fully qualified domain name 
• Raspberry Pi 4 2/4/8 GB. 
• SD card.

Ports

You’ll need to forward the following ports to the IP address of your Raspberry Pi. 

• 80/tcp
• 443/tcp
• 5349/tcp
• 3478/udp
• 10000/udp

0. DNS and port forwarding

Your ANAME and CNAME records should look a little something like this. ANAME pointed at your public IP address and CNAME mapped to the meet subdomain.

1. Download and install Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy, 64-bit) Lite.

2. Mount the Raspberry Pi rootfs partition, head over to /etc, and open a terminal.

3. Edit dhcpcd.conf and give the Pi a static IP address.

4. SSH into the Pi and set a root password.

sudo passwd root

5. Configure the Pi to require a password when using sudo.

sudo nano /etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd

6. Install and configure UFW.

sudo apt install ufw

sudo ufw allow 80/tcp ; sudo ufw allow 443/tcp ; sudo ufw allow 5349/tcp ; sudo ufw allow 3478/udp ; sudo ufw allow 10000/udp ; sudo ufw allow OpenSSH

sudo ufw enable

7. Set your hostname

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname jitsi.your_domain

8. Map the server’s hostname to your public IP address.

sudo nano /etc/hosts

9. Add the Jitsi APT repository.

curl https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key -o jitsi-key.gpg.key 

sudo gpg --output /usr/share/keyrings/jitsi-key.gpg --dearmor jitsi-key.gpg.key 

rm *.key

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list

Add the following to jitsi-stable.list and save.

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/jitsi-key.gpg] https://download.jitsi.org stable/

10. Update apt and install Jitsi.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install jitsi-meet=2.0.8719-1 jicofo=1.0-1038-1 jitsi-meet-web=1.0.7322-1 jitsi-meet-web-config=1.0.7322-1 jitsi-meet-prosody=1.0.7322-1 jitsi-videobridge2=2.3-25-g1da507fa-1 jitsi-meet-turnserver=1.0.7322-1

11. During the installation, you will be prompted for your domain name.

12. When prompted, select Let’s Encrypt for your SSL certificate.

13. Tell the TURN server to wait for the network interface.

sudo systemctl edit coturn.service

 [Unit]
 After=network-online.target
 Wants=network-online.target

14. Configure SIP

sudo nano /etc/jitsi/jicofo/sip-communicator.properties

Add the following and save

org.jitsi.jicofo.auth.URL=XMPP:meet.yourdomain.com

15. Locking room creation

Open /etc/prosody/conf.avail/jitsi.your_domain.cfg.lua and change authentication = “jitsi-anonymous” to authentication = “internal_hashed”

sudo nano /etc/prosody/conf.avail/your_domain.cfg.lua

16. Create user accounts.

You will need a username and password for each user.

sudo prosodyctl register user your_domain password

17. Prevent Jitsi from updating.

sudo apt-mark hold jitsi-meet=2.0.8719-1 jicofo=1.0-1038-1 jitsi-meet-web=1.0.7322-1 jitsi-meet-web-config=1.0.7322-1 jitsi-meet-prosody=1.0.7322-1 jitsi-videobridge2=2.3-25-g1da507fa-1 jitsi-meet-turnserver=1.0.7322-1

18. Reboot the system and you should be good to go.

sudo reboot now

Final Thoughts

The RasPi 4 makes a solid Jitsi server for 2 to 6 people if all you need to do is host a video conference.

I’ve been using it for the past couple of weeks, and it’s been perfectly stable.

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