Video & Audio setup
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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 is used as third party provider for video chat. We recommend using Agora.
Sign up to create an Agora account. After sign-up, you can log in .
Once you finish the sign-up process, you can create an Agora project in Agora Console, To create an Agora project, do the following:
Enter the .
Click Create.
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.
Click Submit. You can now see the project on the Project Management page.
To copy the App ID, find your project on the in Agora Console, and click the copy icon to the right of the App ID.
To get an App Certificate, do the following:
On the , click the edit icon for the project you want to use.
Click the copy icon under Primary Certificate.
Generate a Customer ID and Customer Secret
In , click the account name in the top right corner, and click RESTful API from the drop-down list to enter the RESTful API page.
Click Add a secret, and click OK. A set of Customer ID and Secret is generated.
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:
App ID - Your APP ID we got one previous chapter
App Certificate - Your App Certificate we got one previous chapter
Customer ID - Enter the Customer ID you downloaded from key_and_secret.txt.
Customer Secret - Enter the Customer ID you downloaded from key_and_secret.txt
Click on Create API key and create the new key.
Once done, you'll get SID, and Secret.
Go to Admin Panel -> Chat & Video/Audio -> Twilio API Configuration
Edit the following options:
Live accountSid - Your Account SID we got one previous chapter
apiKeySid - Your API SID we got one previous chapter
apiKeySecret - Your API Secret we got one previous chapter.
Log into your Twilio project at . If you don't have account yet, create one.
Click on .
Once copied the above keys, go to and copy Account SID