Glossary
Terms used in our documentation
Room
Collection of peers that can send and receive video/audio to and from other peers
Peer
User that is connected to a room. Each peer has some associated metadata and tracks.
Track
Single stream of video or audio of a peer. It could be a camera view, shared screen or microphone audio. Each peer can
stream multiple tracks.
Management Token
Secret token that should be stored on your backend. It allows to create rooms and add peers.
Peer Token
Token that your backend should pass to end clients to allow access to a specific room.
Fishjam URL
URL to your Fishjam instance. It is used by your backend server to add peers to rooms (and create rooms).
It is also
used by end client apps to join rooms.
Room Manager
Our test app available only on Sandbox environment. It allows to test Fishjam Cloud without need to add create rooms functionality on your backend.