nextcloud
Add ability to join public calls without an account
To get a wider spread of Talk, and enhance the usability it would be nice to somehow generate automatic guest accounts that users could use with Talk.
So for example, if I choose a contact from the telephones contacts (full contact book) a link would be generated that automatically creates a guest user that are valid for let's say 1 hour.
That way anyone with Nextcloud and Talk installed could use Talk for private chats or video calls - not depending if they have Talk or not.
Maybe my idea isn't so thought through, but I would really like to make it easier for anyone using Talk without the need for a Nextcloud Server. I know that we have public conversations, but it would be nice to invite anyone using a guest account so that the external user could get the full benefit of using Talk on their Phone as well.
Maybe send something automatically generated per SMS like:
Hey! [Full Name] wants to talk to you on Nextcloud Talk. Download the app from Play here: [Link]
Your temporary credentials are:
Username:
Password:
The credentials are valid for 1 hour.
The server address is: [Address of the senders server based on what's used for Talk in their config]
My proposal would need some work on the server side as well I guess.
Or even better, when you access a public link from a smartphone, detect that it's a smartphone and ask the user to download Talk. Then when Talk is installed, use the public link as a login somehow.
Not so thought through, but yeah I hope it's possible somehow.
The point being: I don't want to manually create users on my server to be able to use Talk for Android with external contacts that doesn't use Nextcloud.
How about I make it possible to join a public conversation without an account from the app?
...if you mean that it would be possible to use the app without an account, just a public link?
So basically two options when you start the app for the first time:
- Login
- Use public link
Any progress so far? Using public links is already working (when logged in) so is it a bigger problem?
No progress I'm afraid @escoand - just busy with other things! Feel free to contribute though, we'd all appreciate it! :)
This feature would make it possible to use Nextcloud Talk as a privacy friendly news room for school classes or events. One could create a conversation with link and tell the parents/participants to install the Nextcloud Talk app. They could join the conversation without the need for an account. That could be a serious alternative instead of using WhatsApp for this purposes.
I was expecting this feature being implemented already, but found this issue :) Anyhow, I would like to see this feature as well. I am hosting NC on my own, and thought about Talk as a great alternative to Signal, Whatsapp, Threema etc for the little ones to start chatting with family members AND some selected friends. The control is still in the hand of the parents / admin and you can easily invite someone by sending the link and let them install Talk to use the native Phone/Tablet capabilities like notifications. And all of this without risk losing data or getting into other troubles.
Thanks
Hi! How far are we concerning that essential feature? Kind regards, Gerald
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How far are we concerning that essential feature?
essential, especially as Skype Business is currently free and provides exactly this service.
+1
need this to invite friends to a private conference call. As some will want to join from smartphone and I know they have no nextcloud accounts they currently cannot use the app. Sending a link via e.g. Signal which they simply can touch to fire up the app logging into the conference right away would be an awesome feature.
You can already send a link via Signal, it's just that they have to use the web interface to join :)
OK - will try if it works in popular mobile browsers like firefox and chrome on android and safari on OS - or do you already have like a test-results list?
No, we don't.
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OK - will try if it works in popular mobile browsers like firefox and chrome on android and safari on OS - or do you already have like a test-results list?
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You can already send a link via Signal, it's just that they have to use the web interface to join :)
Unfortunately I was not able to join a Video-Chat from Safari on iOS. Therefore a functionality to join a chat via public link in the app would be great and make the user experience much better.
So far I only tested Firefox and derivates like Fennec on Android and that was working although video was very choppy, so not a great user experience either.
Feel free to also post a bounty on this issue here: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/61503906-add-ability-to-join-public-calls-without-an-account
Maybe it helps to find the support wanted to get this feature implemented.
@mario Hi, I am a computer science student. I'll be happy to work on this.
This will be my first contribution to the project hence I might ask a few questions. First of which is that, does it need some integration on the server-side or is it already done?
@srv-twry no integration on the server side needed. I can draw some mockups and point you to places that need work later today if you're interested?