In the first part, we looked at creating the virtual situation room. Further, we looked at the authentication and users. We will now consider bringing the participants into the room and adding sources.

In Part 3 of our Series, we will look at the layout functionalities of the Eyeson One View API. Since Eyeson is built on top of a next-generation MCU, you can be sure that everyone sees the same things at the same time. So, the Layout is applied by the MCU and can not be changed individually.

Permalinks in Eyeson allow developers to create pre-defined meeting rooms with shareable and permanent guest links, enabling meeting setup and invitation distribution before the actual meeting starts.

Finally, developers are able to create pre-defined meeting rooms, get sharable guest-links, and start the meeting whenever needed with the same permanent links!

Share a meeting link, before the meeting has even being started!

POST /permalink
HEADERS Authorization

user[name]=<host-user-name>
# options[exit_url] and many more options

This will give you all the links you need.

{
  //...
  "links": {
    "gui": "https://app.eyeson.team/permalink?9clgjJXl1NzbcmF5vfXWhAVJ",
    "guest_join": "https://app.eyeson.team/permalink?guest=R2SdUxiqKhpBoUu0oi0pZZkZ"
  }
}

Inform your users about their current system compute pressure. This way they know when it's time to reduce some background activity to keep the meeting running smoothly.

Nowadays "share location" is one of the basic features in mobile chat applications.

When share location is triggered, the device collects its geolocation information and after adjusting and confirming the location is sent and becomes visible as a map for other chat users. This is extremely useful, especially in situations where you need quick help and can't describe the location in words.

We've added some new functions dedicated to share and display location information in Eyeson meetings.

Define your overlay and background layer with dynamic content and let the library create the image for you on-the-fly.

https://github.com/eyeson-team/eyeson-node-layer

Using the new IFrame API is the easiest way to embed Eyeson video conferencing into your site or app using a few lines of HTML and Javascript.

1. Integrate the Eyeson IFrame API script <script src="https://app.eyeson.team/iframe-api.js"></script>
2. Provide an HTML element as meeting container <div id="meeting"></div>
3. Call the EyesonIframe function and let the magic happen new EyesonIframe('#meeting', { accessKey: '...' });

IFrame API creates an iframe HTML element with all correct settings and loads Eyeson's default UI.

In advanced mode, methods to interact with Eyeson UI inside the iframe are available, like present, chat, snapshot, and also meeting events for the user like join and leave can be observed.

We're adding a new way for developers to receive information about a meeting in real-time!

Introducing the "Meeting Observer", a one-way WebSocket connection that allows to boost your application's meeting controls.

It is easier to use than the existing WebHooks and even more powerful, since a lot more information can be observed.

We've made changes to the playbacks API that you need to be aware of!