01-29-2021 05:54 AM
Hi,
has someone an idea if and when WebRTC will be usable with CUCM registered endpoints?
01-29-2021 08:39 AM
CUCM registered endpoint will not use Webrtc.
Cisco Meeting App is a client for Cisco Meeting Server that lets users meet (audio/video), chat and share what is on their screen via team spaces.
The Cisco Meeting App for WebRTC (WebRTC app) does not have a dedicated app but runs on browsers.
01-29-2021 08:53 AM
Hi,
Yes I know. The issue I have, if I register an endpoint via Webex, I can attend MS Teams calls via WebRTC Client. If I register the endpoint on the CUCM, then WebRTC is disabled and I can not attend a MS Teams Meeting or any oder WebRTC session. I'm aware of the limitations and also CVI. It is not a technical issue, the firmware limits the functionality by design.
I'm just curious if this changes. We use Cisco because its standard based and on prem available. I'm not sure how long this feature lacks will make it possible in the future.
01-30-2021 12:20 AM
You can use WebRTC with CUCM registered endpoints. We do so to let our room devices to attend MS Teams meetings.
What version of CE do you use? Per the documentation for this you’d need to be on CE 9.14 for this to work and you have to have hybrid calendar service setup for the OBT join button to be visible on the endpoints.
01-30-2021 03:18 PM
Hi,
that is interesting. I tried different versions mainly 9.14 and RoomOS 10. We cannot use Webex Cloud Services and therefore a hybrid calendar is not an option. Do you have a guide how this is has to be configured? I only have some guides that rely on cloud registered endpoints.
However, the calendar service extracts the Meeting url and push’s it to the device.
What I try to achieve is shown in this video:
When the endpoint ist registered on webex, I can use the UI customization and create a webapp with the MS Teams link. As soon as I click the button, the device connects and everything is working as expected. When the device is connected to the CUCM and I use the Button, the Teams App has no Access to the camera and microphone. Further investigation revealed that some of the Xapi features are not available. MS Teams is also just an example, I would like to use webrtc for another internal service.
Any Idea how to solve this?
01-31-2021 12:21 AM - edited 01-31-2021 04:21 AM
I do have documentation for this, but not accessible right now. Tried to find the information on Google, but could not find it right now. I did find this presentation on the topic from Cisco Live, https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/emea/docs/2020/pdf/BRKCOL-2611.pdf
To get this to work you need a few things.
As I wrote before the only option for join with WebRTC is OBTP. So that part is imperative to get to work. We had quite a bit of trouble with this as we don’t keep the body of the invite intact in the room calendar, the default I mentioned above. The key to get this to work is to have hybrid calendar enabled for both the users and the devices.
01-31-2021 12:27 AM
That webapp sounds interesting, would you mind to share some information about this?
01-31-2021 02:55 AM
Thank you Roger but cloud is not possible.
In the IU Customization of the endpoint it is possible to add different custom things. Integrate room controls, custom events with macros,... etc. I added a custom button that opens a MS Teams Meeting URL from an invite. That’s all. You need to change this url for every meeting but that is not an issue.
The other project where I want to use webrtc is our digital signage network and vbrick. We often have request for ingesting content from different content cameras. We use the CMS with streaming for that, but we need the separate streams from each video device, which results in different conferences. It is much work and many devices involved until all end devices have their formats and streams. With webrtc we can avoid the CMS and stream directly to the multiplexer that transcodes and mixes the individual streams.
However, there are more providers than google and ms teams that support webrtc and it would be good to connect to them also.
So probably we have to use the cameras and a pc to build a collaboration room.
Thank you
01-31-2021 04:24 AM
So also cloud aware is off the table? I read your initial text as you could not do cloud registration of your VC endpoints.
01-31-2021 11:32 AM
There is no real difference. For hybrid calendar to work it needs access to several mailboxes. This adds some legal issues. Furthermore I’m sure some additional licenses are necessary which results in additional costs.
So it is probably cheaper to use CVI for a while and change the hardware in our 50 meeting rooms to something else. We also have around 300 DX80 that don’t support WebRTC.
01-31-2021 12:16 PM
CVI requires additional license, but to the best of my knowledge there are no additional license needed for neither hybrid calendar or Webex Edge for devices.
I don’t understand what you mean by access to several mailboxes or the legal issues?
Never the less you have an answer on how this can be made to work with on-prem registered devices. If you have reasons for why this doesn’t work out for you there aren’t much that we can do for you.
02-01-2021 12:01 AM
WebEx extracts the invitation links from the calendar entries of the room mailboxes. That this could happen WebEx needs to be approved in the O365 tenant, Google or a connector has to be installed. These are usually only a few clicks but we have to obey several privacy and data protection acts around the world. This usually results in much work for lawyers.
Ok, I have to investigate this further and keep this updated.
09-11-2021 04:45 AM
This is handled by the Calendar Connector, either in Expressway for on-prem Exchange or cloud connector in Control Hub for O365 or Google. Any legality on the matter is outside of my area.
01-31-2021 02:33 AM
Have Look on below docuemnt which explains the Cisco Webex Video Integration for Microsoft Teams
https://help.webex.com/en-us/nffx8kj/Deploy-the-Cisco-Webex-Video-Integration-for-Microsoft-Teams
01-31-2021 02:39 AM - edited 01-31-2021 02:52 AM
@Nithin Eluvathingal That document is for the CVI type of integration. I also found that when I searched on Google, but it is not relevant to the question.
Did some more search and found this that list what you get with Webex Edge for devices, it lists WebRTC join for MS Teams. https://help.webex.com/en-us/cy2l2z/Webex-Edge-for-Devices#id_127411
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