Chat server with audio/video chat and screen control

Openfire Video/Audio chat with remote screen control.

Hi all in my previous posts I have mentioned the step by step procedure on installing openfire in Centos minimal and integrating openfire with Active directory.

Today let me describe steps to create a fully functional chat server with Audio/Video chat facility and remote screen sharing and control.

The plugin that we are using for this is Redfire and the client is Spark.

Step 1

• Download the redfire plugin from here
• Once the download is completed use WinSCP or any other sftp client to upload the plugin to the openfire plugin directory.

            The openfire plugin location :  /opt/openfire/plugins

•   Restart openfire service once the upload is completed.

              service openfire restart

Step 2

If everything is successful you will get the below screen in the url : serveripaddres:7070/redfire

So everything is done the remaining part is to install the redfire plugin needed for Spark chat client.

You can download the plugin from the bottom of  redfire page.

And of course you can do many things such as conference,screen sharing and chat from this window.

Step 3

Let us install the redfire plugin in spark.

• Browse to the spark installation directory.
• Copy the downloaded plugin.
• Restart Spark.

 If the plugin installation is successful you can see a couple of new icons in the chat window of spark.

• The first button is used for Audio/Video chat
• The second one for Screen sharing and control.

 Note : Please install latest flash player for internet explorer.

Thanks for reading and start your research.