chamilo-lms/plugin/bbb

BigBlueButton Chamilo plugin

This plugin allows you to have videoconference rooms in each course. It requires you to have a BigBlueButton videoconference server installed on another server (ideally). Check www.bigbluebutton.org for more about BigBlueButton.

Migrating to Chamilo LMS 1.10.x

For Chamilo 1.10.x, the Videoconference plugin has two new settings options: Enable global conference and Enable conference in course groups.

Database changes

You need execute these SQL queries in your database after making the migration process from 1.9.x.

ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD voice_bridge int NOT NULL DEFAULT 1;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD group_id int unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

Migrating to Chamilo LMS 1.11.x

For Chamilo 1.11.x, Videoconference plugin has one new setting option: Disable Course Settings.

Database changes

You need execute this SQL query in your database after making the Chamilo migration process from 1.10.x.

If you are migrating from 1.9.x versions, you need execute the SQL queries from the migration to 1.10.x before.

ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD user_id int unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD access_url int NOT NULL DEFAULT 1;

For version 2.5 you need execute these SQL queries

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugin_bbb_room (
    id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    meeting_id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
    participant_id int(11) NOT NULL,
    in_at datetime NOT NULL,
    out_at datetime NOT NULL
);
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN video_url TEXT NULL;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN has_video_m4v TINYINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN user_id INT DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN access_url INT DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN remote_id char(30);
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN visibility TINYINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN session_id INT DEFAULT 0;

For version 2.6 (adding limits) you need execute these SQL queries

INSERT INTO settings_current (variable, subkey, type, category, selected_value, title, comment, scope, subkeytext, access_url, access_url_changeable, access_url_locked) VALUES ('bbb_max_users_limit', 'bbb', 'setting', 'Plugins', '3', 'bbb', null, null, null, 1, 1, 0);
INSERT INTO extra_field (extra_field_type, field_type, variable, display_text, default_value, field_order, visible_to_self, visible_to_others, changeable, filter, created_at) VALUES (2, 15, 'plugin_bbb_course_users_limit', 'MaxUsersInConferenceRoom', '0', 1, 1, 0, 1, null, '2017-05-28 01:19:32');
INSERT INTO extra_field (extra_field_type, field_type, variable, display_text, default_value, field_order, visible_to_self, visible_to_others, changeable, filter, created_at) VALUES (3, 15, 'plugin_bbb_session_users_limit', 'MaxUsersInConferenceRoom', null, 1, 1, 0, 1, null, '2017-05-28 01:19:32');

For version 2.7

ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN interface INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_room ADD COLUMN interface INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_room MODIFY COLUMN in_at datetime;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_room MODIFY COLUMN out_at datetime;

For version 2.8

ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting ADD COLUMN internal_meeting_id VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_room ADD close INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

For version 2.9 (Optional, requires an update version of BBB)

ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_room DROP COLUMN interface;
ALTER TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting DROP COLUMN interface;

For version 2.10 (Handles multiple recording formats - Check https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/issues/3703)

CREATE TABLE plugin_bbb_meeting_format (
	id int unsigned not null PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
	meeting_id int unsigned not null,
	format_type varchar(255) not null,
	resource_url text not null
)

Improve access tracking in BBB

You need to configure the cron using the cron_close_meeting.php file.

Digital ocean VM

In order to use DigitalOceanVM classes a new package is required:

composer requires toin0u/digitalocean