Installation and network
The wizard asks for everything the server needs – password, ports, internet name – and opens the firewall. Later everything changes on the admin’s Server page, with a restart button. Nobody has to edit a configuration file.
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Admin password, HTTP, HTTPS, audio and OSC ports, internet name and address, a shared certificate authority: the setup walks you through, opens the firewall and puts a shortcut on the desktop. The same setup updates too, leaving no orphan files.
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Password, ports, internet, certificate, update checks and API tokens on the Server page. A bar shows what needs a restart; Restart server restarts it, and the panels reconnect by themselves.
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With a public name, colleagues outside can join: forward one TCP port and one UDP range on the router. The server takes the name’s certificate (Let’s Encrypt, for example) from the machine store and checks it again every hour.
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Browsers allow the microphone only on a secure connection. Every installation creates its own BroadTalk CA; the start page checks HTTPS and, when needed, shows how to install the CA step by step.
BroadTalk-Update.cmd stops, updates and restarts the server; you only answer the Windows administrator prompt.
Settings, presets, logs and certificates live in their own folder; updates leave them alone.
Every console line also goes to a daily log, a crash to its own file; the server starts even with a broken configuration.
Every six hours the server checks broadtalk.hu, and the admin shows a new version.
Step by step
What the setup asked, the admin’s Server page changes later, restart included. The server tells you what is missing: administrator rights, the internet certificate, the public audio address or a firewall rule.
Not on a local network. For internet use, yes, because only then can it reach the key of the public name’s certificate; the setup then makes its shortcuts run as administrator.
Run the new setup with the server stopped, or double-click BroadTalk-Update.cmd kept on the server machine, which stops, updates and restarts the server. Either way your settings stay.
Yes. One server’s CA can be imported into the others (during setup or on the admin’s Server page), so clients accept all of them with a single CA installed.
A Stream Deck plugin, an HTTP API with tokens and OSC: press keys, mute, call, load presets, set ON AIR.
Roles, groups, keys, fixed routes and presets in a password-protected admin. Every change applies at once.
Contact
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