📹Video & Audio setup

Almost half the internet is video. Any social networking platform needs to have a video strategy. Socially offers video call amongst users via twilio/agora. By default, this is enabled for community members with caps on usage.

Agora Video Chat Setup inside chats(Recommended)

Agora is used as third party provider for video chat. We recommend using Agora.

• Sign up here to create an Agora account. After sign-up, you can log in here.

• Once you finish the sign-up process, you can create an Agora project in Agora Console, To create an Agora project, do the following:

  1. Enter the Project Management page.

  2. Click Create.

  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to enter a project name and use case, and check Secured mode: APP ID + Token (Recommended) as the authentication mechanism.

  4. Click Submit. You can now see the project on the Project Management page.

• To copy the App ID, find your project on the Project Management page in Agora Console, and click the copy icon to the right of the App ID.

• To get an App Certificate, do the following:

  1. On the Project Management page, click the edit icon for the project you want to use.

  2. Click the copy icon under Primary Certificate.

• Generate a Customer ID and Customer Secret

  1. In Agora Console, click the account name in the top right corner, and click RESTful API from the drop-down list to enter the RESTful API page.

  2. Click Add a secret, and click OK. A set of Customer ID and Secret is generated.

  3. Click Download in the Customer Secret column. Read the pop-up window carefully, and save the downloaded key_and_secret.txt file in a secure location.

• Go to Admin Panel -> Settings -> Chat & Video / Audio -> Agora API Configuration

• Edit the following options:

  1. App ID - Your APP ID we got one previous chapter

  2. App Certificate - Your App Certificate we got one previous chapter

  3. Customer ID - Enter the Customer ID you downloaded from key_and_secret.txt.

  4. Customer Secret - Enter the Customer ID you downloaded from key_and_secret.txt

Twilio Video Chat:

• Log into your Twilio project at www.twilio.com/console. If you don't have account yet, create one.

• Click on https://console.twilio.com/us1/account/keys-credentials/api-keys.

• Click on Create API key and create the new key.

• Once done, you'll get SID, and Secret.

• Once copied the above keys, go to https://console.twilio.com/us1/account/manage-account/general-settings and copy Account SID

• Go to Admin Panel -> Chat & Video/Audio -> Twilio API Configuration

• Edit the following options:

  1. Live accountSid - Your Account SID we got one previous chapter

  2. apiKeySid - Your API SID we got one previous chapter

  3. apiKeySecret - Your API Secret we got one previous chapter.