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Louis's avatar

Thanks for this detailed tutorial, I'll use it this week-end 😃

You mentioned you were moving to Nextcloud AIO, may I know why? Since you've done the hard part of installing and connecting a HPB server, what's the advantage of reinstalling everything (Nextcloud, Collaboration, HPB...) on a single server, maintainability?

I'm considering using Hetzner storage share deal to host Nextcloud (large affordable HDD storage) and use external dedicated VPS to get Collaboration + HPB functionalities. Do you think it's better to go with AIO (and eventually connect external storage to increase disk space)?

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Karl William's avatar

I would use AiO but I'm hosting everything myself. I have not been able to stress test this solution yet so I'm not sure how much resources is required to handle many clients. I would still use AiO because it's easy to install. However, it's optional if you want to include the high-performance backend on the same server.

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David's avatar

The page you linked to to "follow the script" is written in German. Tough to follow.

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Karl William's avatar

My German is a bit rusty as well but many modern browsers have a translate function that you can use.

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Rolando's avatar

Thanks Karl I'll look into the AIO version. I am currently just on a Raspberry Pi running the default OS.

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Karl William's avatar

A Raspberry Pi 5 is perfect for a home nextcloud server:

https://opensourceisfun.substack.com/p/building-your-own-nas-or-nextcloud

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Rolando's avatar

Thank you for putting this together. I followed the instructions and for the life of me I cannot find the output file, which has the name of the servers, etc. summarized. I searched the install directory, did searches for *secret, etc. and came up empty. Even on the gidhub site he talks about the output and what to put in Nextcloud, but no path to where the outfile is at. Unless I'm blind :)

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Karl William's avatar

If I understand you correctly, You are looking for the output from the summary after running the HBP script? I don't know if that is stored somewhere. The secrets required for Nextcloud are stored in /etc/turn.conf (static-auth-secret) and /etc/nextcloud-spreed-signaling/server.conf (nextcloud-backend-0).

I'm sorry but i'm a bit confused about what you are struggling with.

Btw, I got nextcloud talk work in firefox as well. You can read about it in the followup post. https://opensourceisfun.substack.com/p/nextcloud-talk-updating-the-high

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Rolando's avatar

Thank you. I got the output script to generate but still can’t make configuration settings to make a successful connection.

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Karl William's avatar

I see. It could be one of many things. You could consider installing Nextcloud All-In-One instead. I'm planning to migrate to that myself. That is the recommended version.

https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one

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