Chat Bundle
Chat and Chat Calls together — messages, rooms, and voice and video calling, all on your own server.
$135 instead of $160 bought separately, and $50 every six months instead of $60. The same two applications, the same files, one purchase.
What you get
| Application | What it does | On its own |
|---|---|---|
| Chat | A launcher on every page. Private messages, public rooms, invite-only private rooms, typing indicators, images and files, moderation. | $95 + $35/6mo |
| Chat Calls | Voice and video calling from any one-to-one conversation. Peer to peer, never recorded, never through your server. | $65 + $25/6mo |
Also included: a ready-made coturn setup for calls, which is the part most people would otherwise spend an afternoon on.
Why they are sold together
Calls are an add-on to Chat and do nothing without it. If you want calling at all, you need both — so this is simply the cheaper way to buy them.
If you only want text chat, buy Chat on its own. Nothing here is held back from it.
Requirements
- Invision Community 5
- Realtime, with a current gateway. The gateway is free and has its own listing.
- HTTPS, for calls — browsers refuse microphone and camera access on an insecure page.
- A TURN server for calls. The setup is included and takes about ten minutes.
Worth knowing before you buy
- Calling is one to one in this version. Group calling needs a different piece of server software with real processing cost, and is planned rather than promised.
- Chat needs a live connection. There is no polling fallback, deliberately — a chat that refreshes every thirty seconds is a slow forum, not a chat. Without Realtime connected the launcher does not appear at all.
- Nothing leaves your server. No third-party chat service, no per-message pricing, no monthly bill that grows with your community.
What's New in Version 1.0.2
Released
Group calls, and both applications brought fully up to date.
The bundle now carries Chat 1.0.7 and Chat Calls 1.1.0.
Group calls
Any public or private chat room now has Join call and Join with video on it. Everybody who joins can see and hear everybody else — up to eight on voice, or four with video — with no host and nobody to ring individually. Joining without video is always offered, so a full video call never locks anyone out of the conversation.
Everything Chat gained since the last bundle
⚠️ This is the part worth reading if you bought the bundle earlier. The previous bundle shipped Chat 1.0.2, so this upgrade also brings you 1.0.3 through 1.0.6, which were largely about chat on a phone:
- The chat sheet opens full-screen on a phone instead of a cramped panel, and is sized against the viewport the browser actually gives you rather than the one it claims.
- Tap targets meet the 44 pixel minimum throughout.
- The composer no longer disappears behind the on-screen keyboard, and no longer grabs the cursor and opens that keyboard the moment chat is opened.
- The launcher lifts above a theme's own bottom bar rather than sitting under it.
- Avatars match the rest of the suite.
Install both applications, in either order. Group calling needs both — Chat carries the signalling between browsers, and Chat 1.0.7 is what lets a member's new entitlement reach a connection that is already open.
The TURN kit is unchanged.
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