Peercall - Decentralized Video Chat

It is live at https://zipcall.io Will be deployed to IPFS/Unstoppable domains soon

Decentralized video chat platform powered by WebRTC using Twilio STUN/TURN infrastructure. PeerCall provides video quality and latency simply not available with traditional technology.The froentend code resides in IPFS technology

Features

• Screen sharing
• Picture in picture
• Live captions
• Text chat
• Auto-scaling video quality
• No download required, entirely browser based
• Direct peer to peer connection ensures lowest latency
• Single use disposable chat rooms

Quick start

• You will need to have Node.js installed, this project has been tested with Node version 10.X and 12.X
• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/ianramzy/decentralized-video-chat
cd decentralized-video-chat

Set up credentials

• Rename .env.template to .env
• Sign up for free twilio account https://www.twilio.com/login
• Get your Account SID and Auth Token from the Twillio console
• Fill in your credentials in the .env file

Install dependencies

npm install

Start the server

npm start

• Open localhost:3000 in browser
• If you want to use a client on another computer/network, make sure you publish your server on an HTTPS connection. You can use a service like ngrok for that.