Amandine and I just got back from WebRTC World 2015 in Miami – the conference was a great success: a fantastic opportunity to meet up with many of the companies who are supporting Matrix and give everyone an update on what Matrix is up to with our Keynote: Defragmenting the Internet for fun and non-profit!.
We also had a little too much fun in the demo shoot-out – hooking up a Parrot Bebop quadrocopter into Matrix using a Matrix-enabled Janus WebRTC Gateway. The problem here is that the Parrot firmware and C SDK provides H.264 video, but doesn’t package it up at all for use with WebRTC – let alone using interoperable signalling like Matrix. So this is a classic use of Matrix to expose a simple open consistent interface to a system which is otherwise is stuck with a proprietary non-web-friendly API. The code hasn’t been tidied up yet, but our hacked Matrixified fork of Janus is up at https://github.com/matrix-org/janus-gateway/tree/ardrone3 if anyone has a drone and is crazy enough to want to experiment with it :)
Meanwhile, we also showed OpenWebRTC-powered VoIP on the latest develop iOS Matrix Console app talking hardware-accelerated H.264 through to Firefox on the desktop. My ancient 2010 MacBook Pro did its best to sabotage the demo (turns out that 1080P AirPlay + Firefox WebRTC is a bridge too far), but it gave a good idea of what’s to come. Many thanks to the OpenWebRTC team for lots of help in getting the demo together in time!
It turns out that all the demo excitement was worth it in the end, as the jury seemed to like what Matrix is up to and was kind enough to award us more points than any of the other 13 demos… meaning that we won Best In Show!!. Huge thanks to the judges for believing in the Matrix vision, and congratulations to all the other demoists too :)
…and the actual video stream that the drone transmitted before I crashed it (recorded on Janus) is at…
Finally, our grand finale was meant to be combining the two demos, and showing OpenWebRTC decoding the H.264 from the Drone in hardware on an iPhone – using Matrix of course to set up the call and control the drone. Alas a TURN-related bug got in the way of this working, but we just fixed it up in the office this morning, and I’m proud to show the first ever Parrot Bebop -> Janus -> Matrix -> OpenWebRTC video stream!! (and very exciting it is too…)
Huge thanks again to Dave for doing the Matrix integration with Janus, Stefan and Rob from OpenWebRTC for all the help on the OWR side, and Manu & Giom for porting the OpenWebRTC pull request to MatrixKit and landing it in iOS Console Develop for the demo!
As a follow-on to the previous post, Apple approved version 0.4.0 of the iOS Matrix Console app over the weekend – grab it now from the app store!. Whilst cosmetically it looks almost identical to 0.3.x, the architecture is completely different given the app is now built using MatrixKit – and stability has improved considerably as a result. Please install and let us know how you get on!
Synapse has had support for exporting a comprehensive range of metrics via HTTP since 0.8.1 – we added this to help quantify the benefits of all the performance work which is going on currently in advance of Synapse 0.9. If you’re interested in monitoring your own synapse and seeing what’s going on using something like Prometheus, Leo just wrote a quick tutorial on getting up and running:
Simply setting a (local) port number will enable it. Pick a port. prometheus itself defaults to 9090, so starting just above that for locally monitored services seems reasonable. E.g. 9092:
The .html file needs to appear in prometheus’s consoles directory, and the .rules file needs to be invoked somewhere in the main config file. A symlink to each from the git checkout into the prometheus directory might be easiest to ensure git pull keeps it updated.
5: Add a prometheus target for synapse
This is easiest if prometheus runs on the same machine as synapse, as it can then just use localhost:
As of 9am tomorrow, somewhere in the depths of East London (and remotely from around the world), a diaspora of elite VoIP/WebRTC/Telco developers will compete to build the most innovative and impressive communications demos at Tadhack Mini London! Dave, Oddvar and myself are going to be there from the core Matrix.org team, both on-site and online (at #matrix:matrix.org, of course) to provide support – especially to everyone who’s using Matrix APIs in their solution. And as we mentioned before, we’ll even be giving away two Parrot Bebop Drones to the best hacks built using Matrix!
It’s not too late to get involved – the more the merrier. We reckon it’s going to be a really fun weekend, so look forward to chatting to some of you soon!
Quick heads up that Matrix.org is going to be at Enterprise Connect next week in Orlando. If you’re attending and interested in open federation between WebRTC solutions, Enterprise UC, messaging/voip apps, the PSTN etc – then needless to say we’d love to talk to you! Please come seek us out, or drop us an email (firstname at matrix.org) or find us on #matrix:matrix.org to schedule a chat in person.
Amandine and I just got back from WebRTC World 2015 in Miami – the conference was a great success: a fantastic opportunity to meet up with many of the companies who are supporting Matrix and give everyone an update on what Matrix is up to with our Keynote: Defragmenting the Internet for fun and non-profit!.
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