lobby_autostart

Lobby Autostart

This plugin automatically enables the lobby for all rooms.

⚠️ Do not use this plugin unless you have enabled some mechanism for moderators to bypass the lobby, e.g. a plugin to set default passwords to rooms, or a plugin to bypass lobby based on token attributes. Otherwise, all your users will be stuck in the lobby with nobody to admit them.

Installation

• Prerequisites:

  • Enable the lobby feature and test that it works as expected when manually activated by a moderator.

  • Make sure you have a way for moderators to bypass the lobby. Test that it works when lobby is activated manually by another moderator.

• Copy this script to the Prosody plugins folder. It's the following folder on Debian

  cd /usr/share/jitsi-meet/prosody-plugins/
  wget -O mod_lobby_autostart.lua https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jitsi-contrib/prosody-plugins/main/lobby_autostart/mod_lobby_autostart.lua

• Enable the module in your prosody config, as well as the 'persistent_lobby' module.

  /etc/prosody/conf.d/meet.mydomain.com.cfg.lua

  Virtualhost "meet.mydomain.com"
    modules_enabled = {
      -- ...
      "muc_lobby_rooms";
      "persistent_lobby";
    }
  
  Component "conference.meet.mydomain.com" "muc"
    modules_enabled = {
      -- ... existing modules
      "lobby_autostart";
    }

• Restart prosody

  systemctl restart prosody.service