Disable or hide recording functionality

[PD123]

Hi,

I started installing BBB and greenlight and got all working, had some issues with rebooting servers, but seems to work now too.

I started doing some changes in config files and environment files.

There are 2 main things I like to hide or disable:
1) Recording functionality - since recoding of kids in school environment is a concern for privacy, I like to disable this functionality, so that we dont see the recording button on top, while a conference goes

2) Disable CC, this didnt work for me anyway and might cause confusions

Thanks

Peter

[Chad Pilkey]

To disable all recordings edit /usr/share/bbb-web/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties and change disableRecordingDefault to true.

I can't find a configuration property to hide the CC option.

[Goodfred]

Hello!

I've set disableRecordingDefault to true.

Then I made "bbb-conf --restart"

After there was no effekt (I still see the recording tab) I've restarted the docker image with a rebuild of the docker image, without effekt.

(I still see "Recordings of the room" on the bottom of the page when logged in)

I have two BigBlueButton servers at the moment. (one test machine and one produktive)

On the test machine I was able to go to the organisation settings -> room configuration -> "Aufnahme des Raumes erlauben"/"allow recording of the room" (here I was able to set it to deactivated)

With that - I don't see anymore the recording tab (on the bottom of the page when logged in)

But on the productive machine I don't have the option to set under the organisation settings -> room configuration -> the setting "Aufnahme des Raumes erlauben"/allow recording of the room to deactivated. The option is not there.

Can you tell me what I should do to deactivate recordings for this server?

I want that users which are logged in don't see the recording tab on the main page when logged in on the bottom of the page.

Thank you! :)

Goodfred

[detlef K]

Hi Goodfred,

could be that the cache is the problem?

Reload the page with "CTRL" and "F5"

Detlef

[Goodfred]

Hello Detlef,

unfortunately not. Its not the cache :(

Do you have other ideas?

Goodfred

[Goodfred]

Hello everyone!

Has someone an idea what I can do?

Thank you! :)

Goodfred

[sd...@distancelearning.cloud]

You can turn off recordings in bigbluebutton.properties server wide,  or pass record=false on new create calls.  Greenlight may also have ability to disable recordings. Not sure about that will defer to the greenlight gurus.

 

Regards,

Stephen

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[Goodfred]

Hello!

Additional I've rebuilded the greenlight image - without success - when I set the value to "true" - I still see the recording option in the top menu and downside the recording "page" for "recordings of the room"

I hope you have another idea!

Thank you!

Goodfred

[Goodfred]

Hello again!

As I said: On one server I can go to "organisation" -> "room configuration" -> "enable recording of the room" -> set it to "deactivated"

On this server I have the effect that the "recordings of the room" "page" and the "recording" menu in the top is not visible anymore.

On the other server I don't have the option for "enable recording of the room" - that means I can't set it to deactivated.

Goodfred

[detlef K]

look here:

nano /usr/share/bbb-web/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties

search for...

# Disable recording by default.
#   true - don't record even if record param in the api call is set to record
#   false - when record param is passed from api, override this default
disableRecordingDefault=true

# Start recording when first user joins the meeting.
# For backward compatibility with 0.81 where whole meeting
# is recorded.
autoStartRecording=false

# Allow the user to start/stop recording.
allowStartStopRecording=false

now no buttons are displayed for recording.

I have not yet been able to hide all the links in Greenlight.
I'm also still looking for a way to change the website.