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Thank you for choosing kMeet by Infomaniak as your video conferencing solution!
These guides will help you organize your remote meetings, secure them with a password or encryption key, share your screen, record your video conferences, and more!
Getting Started
Download the kMeet app on your Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS (iPhone/iPad), and Android devices from this page (click here).
What would you like to do?
- Create an online meeting
- Join a meeting
- Control participants (moderation)
- Protect access to a meeting with a password and/or an encryption key
- Record and share a video conference
- Share your screen with participants
- Start chat during an online meeting
Any questions or feedback?
- Read the FAQs first
- Infomaniak support is here to help
- Feel free to submit suggestions
This guide explains how to join a kMeet videoconference , the free videoconference solution by Infomaniak.
Connect to a meeting room
- start kMeet via kmeet.infomaniak.com or from one of the applications
- on the login page, indicate the meeting code (ex: 001-0002-003) or follow the access link to the meeting
- allow access to your webcam and microphone from your browser or from one of the applications
- enter a pseudonym or your first and last name
- if necessary, enter the access password and/or encryption key provided by the meeting organizer
This guide explains how to start an online meeting with kMeet, Infomaniak's free ethical videoconferencing solution.
Create a virtual meeting room
- start kMeet via kmeet.infomaniak.com or from one of the computer or mobile applications
- on the login page, provide a name for your meeting room
- authorize access to your webcam and microphone from your browser or from the application (click here in case of problem)
- enter a pseudonym or your first and last name
- if necessary, activate participant control, a password or a personalized encryption key
- click on Join Meeting
- share the show link to invite attendees to join you
This guide explains how to share your screen during a kMeet meeting, Infomaniak's secure, unlimited, and free video conferencing solution.
This feature is not available on mobile devices.
Start Screen Sharing
To do this:
- Start kMeet via kmeet.infomaniak.com or from one of the desktop applications
- Create or join a meeting room
- Allow access to your webcam and microphone from your browser or from one of the applications
- Enter a nickname or your full name
- If necessary, set or enter the access password and/or the meeting room encryption key
- Click on the Share your screen icon
- To stop broadcasting, click again on the Share your screen icon
If you encounter any issues, please refer to this guide (click here).
This guide explains how to start recording an online meeting organized with kMeet, Infomaniak's ethical and free video conferencing solution, in order to obtain a video of the session in .mp4 format stored on Infomaniak's kDrive.
Prerequisites
- Have a kDrive account.
- Be the moderator of the meeting to be recorded.
- Do not create an encrypted video conference with a custom key.
Record a kMeet Meeting on kDrive
To record the meeting in .mp4 video format on kDrive:
- Create or join a meeting from kmeet.infomaniak.com.
- From the meeting room, click on the â‹® icon at the bottom right.
- In the menu that appears, select the Start recording icon.
- If necessary, log in to your Infomaniak account and select a kDrive to save the recording.
- To stop the recording, click again on the â‹® icon at the bottom right and then on Stop recording.
- The recording is available at the root of the chosen kDrive as soon as the virtual room in which the meeting took place is closed (i.e., as soon as all participants have left the video conference).
The video recording takes place on the server side and does not impose any load on the processor of the participant who initiated it.
This guide explains how to manually allow or deny participants to a kMeet meeting.
Approve or deny attendees
- go to kmeet.infomaniak.com or one of the applications
- create your meeting room
- from the options on the left: activate the control of the participant(s)
- join the meeting
- share the link or the meeting code and if necessary the password and/or the encryption key to your participants
- when your participants try to join the meeting, a sound notification prompts you to allow them to join the room or not
Designated Moderator, the first approved user will remain so for the duration of the videoconference.
Enable monitoring after creating a meeting
- go to kmeet.infomaniak.com or one of the applications
- create your meeting room
- click on the Participant Control icon
- click on Save
- share the link or the meeting code and if necessary the password and/or the encryption key to your participants
- when your participants try to join the meeting, a sound notification prompts you to allow them to join the room or not
This guide helps you solve any problems accessing the camera with kMeet, the ethical videoconferencing solution offered by Infomaniak.
With current security standards, a web browser or an application installed on an operating system such as Windows or macOS must ask you for permission to access the microphone and the camera as soon as a videoconference begins.
Allow camera access
- open a web browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.)
- go to the address https://kmeet.infomaniak.com
- start a new meeting
- name the meeting
- continue and choose "From Browser"
- a popup should ask you to authorize the browser to access your microphone + camera:
- if the popup does not appear automatically, check the icons in the header of your browser:
or here:
This guide explains how to use the chat function during a kMeet meeting.
Launching the chat function
- Start kMeet via kmeet.infomaniak.com or one of the office applications
- Create or join a meeting room
- Authorize access to your webcam and microphone via your browser or one of the applications
- Enter a nickname or your name and first name
- If necessary, set or enter the login password and/or encryption key for the meeting room
- Click the Open/Close chat icon
- To stop broadcasting, click the Open/Close chat icon again
- Chatting supports the use of emojis and it is also possible to request the floor via the Raise/Lower your hand icon
This guide explains how to add a password and encryption key to a kMeet meeting, Infomaniak's ethical solution for free video conferencing.
Protecting a Meeting with a Password
When creating your meeting room, it is possible to protect it with a password, which you will need to share with all your participants to allow them to connect.
- open the kMeet app (on your device or from a browser at the URL kmeet.infomaniak.com)
- start a meeting
- from the security options: protect access and set a password
- join the meeting
- share the meeting link or code along with the password to your participants
Securing a Meeting with an Encryption Key
This feature only works with our desktop applications and on up-to-date browsers based on the Chromium architecture (e.g., Opera, Brave, Google Chrome, etc.).
- open the kMeet app (on your device or from a browser at the URL kmeet.infomaniak.com)
- start a meeting
- from the security options: protect access and set a password
- when the video conferencing window opens, an audio message is heard announcing end-to-end encryption
This guide explains how to solve a possible problem when sharing your screen during a kMeet meeting , Infomaniak's secure, unlimited and free videoconference.
Give permissions to kMeet
When using the kMeet video conferencing solution, if the button to share your screen is not available and/or remains grayed out, check the security settings on your computer/operating system regarding:
- kMeet app
- the browser (if you use kMeet directly online without going through the application)
Under macOS for example, you must activate the permissions in the System settings under Privacy and security then Screen recording :
Take a look at the icons present in the address bar of your browser and detect a possible authorization problem by clicking on the symbols: