HiBuddy, say hi to your friends !

HiBuddy provides you a simple way to make bidirectional videoconferences with your friends.

Goals

• Provides a small web application.
• Easy to install, easy to launch, easy to use.
• Doesn't keep any user data.
• Free as in freedom.

Getting Started

Requirements

• Firefox 25 (or later)
• node 0.8.x
• npm 1.1.x

Install the project

$ git clone https://github.com/tOkeshu/hibuddy.git
$ cd hibuddy
$ npm install

These commands should clone and pull the necessary dependencies.

Configure Nginx

Here is a sample configuration for nginx:

# /etc/nginx/sites-available/hibuddy.example.com
server {
    listen   80;

    root /path/to/hibuddy/public;
    index index.html index.htm;

    server_name hibuddy.example.com;
    server_name_in_redirect off;

    proxy_buffering off;

    location / {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:6424;
    }
}

Enable your site:

# ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/hibuddy.example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/hibuddy.example.com
# /etc/init.d/nginx reload

Start the server

$ cd hibuddy
$ npm start # starts the server on port 6424

Then open a browser to http://hibuddy.example.com (where hibuddy.example.com is your domain).

If you just want to test the application on you machine, just edit your /etc/hosts:

# /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1	hibuddy.example.com

Production

For a more concrete deployment, we recommand you to use forever:

# npm install -g forever # install forever system wide
$ cd hibuddy
$ forever -o logs/stdout.log -e logs/stderr.log start bin/hibuddy
$ forever stop bin/hibuddy

See the forever documentation for more information.

License

HiBuddy is released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later.