Virtual Office Project

This repository serves as the codebase for the virtual office project. Currently, the system works on any device that has a private IP address on the Stanford campus network, and we expect that the signaling server would be able to host ~50 people at the same time at its maximum.

Get started

Enabling the Microphone/Camera in browser for (Local) Unsecure Origins

For Chrome, type the following in the URL field

chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure

Enable the Insecure origins treated as secure section and enter http://localhost:6001.

WARNING: For Chrome, you might need to restart your browser after you change the settings above. Save the tabs!

For Firefix, type about:config and set the values of media.devices.insecure.enabled and media.getusermedia.insecure.enabled to be true.

Signaling server

NOTE: Qizheng is hosting and maintaining the signaling server now, so you can skip this step.

The signaling server is built with aiohttp and socketio. Run the following commands to install the required libraries first.

cd signaling
pip install -r requirements.txt
python server.py

A websocket server will be hosted at the IP address and at the port number indicated in web.run_app(). Note that this server does not have to be hosted on any client's local computer.

User information

To set up personal info that will be displayed during the chat, do

cd goto-lunch-web
touch clientconfig.js

In clientconfig.js, put the following lines

const USER_ID = "your name";
const DEVICE = "your device";
let USER_INFO = {"user_id": USER_ID, "device": DEVICE};

Note that this information will be broadcast to other users when you get online.

Web chat client

To start the web chat client, do

cd goto-lunch-web
python -m http.server 6001

A web chat window will be started and hosted at localhost:6001. Feel free to change the port number.

Reference

The implementation of the signaling server is adapted based on https://github.com/pfertyk/webrtc-working-example.