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claude and others added 15 commits November 3, 2025 20:37
- upgrade Socket.IO 2.3.0 → 4.7.5 with CORS support
- upgrade Express to 4.19.2
- upgrade Docker base image from node:boron → node:20-alpine
- replace deprecated getUserMedia with navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia
- remove jQuery dependency, use vanilla JavaScript
- add TODO note for ScriptProcessorNode → AudioWorklet migration
- fix client count API for Socket.IO 4.x compatibility
- improve error handling for microphone access
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Update critical security changes and dependencies
Audio Quality Improvements:
- Create centralized configuration system in config.js
- Increase default sample rate from 12kHz to 16kHz for better quality
- Make all audio settings configurable (sample rate, bit depth, compression)
- Add UI panel to display current audio quality settings
- Users can now easily adjust quality vs bandwidth tradeoff

Configuration Features:
- Configurable sample rates: 8000, 12000, 16000, 24000, 32000, 48000 Hz
- Configurable bit depth: 8, 16, 32-bit
- Adjustable audio processing parameters (lowpass filter, compression)
- Customizable minimum gain threshold for bandwidth optimization

Opus Codec Foundation:
- Install @geut/opus library for future Opus support
- Include Opus encoder/decoder WASM files
- Prepare infrastructure for Opus codec integration

UI Enhancements:
- Add settings display panel showing current configuration
- Provide user guidance on how to modify settings
- Improve layout with better spacing and styling

Documentation:
- Update README with audio quality configuration guide
- Add quality presets (low bandwidth, high quality)
- Mark sound quality improvement as completed in roadmap

This addresses the roadmap item to "improve sound quality by implementing opus"
by creating a flexible configuration system and laying the foundation for
future Opus codec integration.
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feat: add configurable audio quality settings and Opus codec foundation
Server-Side Changes (server.js):
- Implement room management system with create/join/leave functionality
- Track active rooms and users in each room
- Auto-create rooms when first user joins
- Auto-delete empty rooms when last user leaves
- Isolate audio transmission to users in the same room only
- Add real-time room list updates
- Emit room events: room-joined, room-left, user-joined, user-left

Client-Side Changes:

UI (index.html):
- Add room selection panel with room name input
- Add Join/Leave room buttons with state management
- Display current room info (name and user count)
- Show list of all active rooms with user counts
- Add status messages for user feedback
- Require users to join a room before starting audio

Room Management (voip.js):
- Add joinRoom() and leaveRoom() functions
- Handle room socket events from server
- Connect room events to UI callbacks
- Maintain room state on client side

UI Logic (main.js):
- Implement room UI event handlers
- Handle join/leave button clicks
- Display room information dynamically
- Update active rooms list in real-time
- Prevent audio start without joining a room first
- Enable Enter key to join rooms

Documentation (README.md):
- Add comprehensive room/channel documentation
- Include usage instructions and examples
- Document room features (auto-create, auto-delete, isolation)
- Add use cases (team meetings, gaming, study groups, etc.)
- Update roadmap to mark room support as completed

Features:
✅ Multi-room support with unlimited simultaneous rooms
✅ Private conversations isolated by room
✅ Real-time room and user count updates
✅ Automatic room lifecycle management
✅ User-friendly room selection interface
✅ Room list showing all active rooms

This implements feature B from the quality features roadmap.
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feat: add room/channel support for multi-room conversations
Server-Side Improvements (server.js):
- Add SSL certificate error handling with try-catch
- Provide helpful error messages for missing certificates
- Include instructions for generating self-signed certificates
- Add port conflict detection (EADDRINUSE)
- Implement graceful shutdown handling (SIGTERM, SIGINT)
- Add socket connection error handlers
- Handle uncaught exceptions and unhandled rejections
- Improve server startup logging with detailed status messages
- Configure Socket.IO with extended ping timeout (60s) and interval (25s)

Client-Side Improvements:

Network Configuration (config.js):
- Enhanced reconnection settings with exponential backoff
- Infinite reconnection attempts
- Configurable delays: 1s initial, 5s maximum
- 20s connection timeout
- Enable connection status display

Socket.IO Integration (voip.js):
- Initialize Socket.IO with reconnection configuration
- Add comprehensive connection event handlers:
  - connect: Connection established
  - disconnect: Connection lost (with reason)
  - connect_error: Connection errors
  - reconnect_attempt: Show reconnection progress
  - reconnect: Successful reconnection
  - reconnect_error: Reconnection errors
  - reconnect_failed: All reconnection attempts failed
  - server-shutdown: Graceful server shutdown notification
- Trigger status callbacks for all connection state changes

Microphone Error Handling (voip.js):
- Detailed error messages for specific error types:
  - NotAllowedError: Permission denied guidance
  - NotFoundError: No microphone detected
  - NotReadableError: Device busy
  - OverconstrainedError: Requirements not met
  - TypeError: Configuration error
- Browser compatibility check with helpful message
- Error callbacks for UI feedback

UI Enhancements (index.html & main.js):
- Add connection status indicator in header:
  - Green: Connected
  - Yellow: Disconnected
  - Orange: Reconnecting (with attempt count)
  - Red: Error/Failed
  - Gray: Server shutdown
- Real-time status updates based on connection state
- Auto-clear success messages after 5 seconds
- Display critical error messages prominently
- Re-enable "Start Talking" button on microphone errors
- Visual feedback for all error scenarios

Documentation (README.md):
- Add comprehensive error handling section
- Document server-side error handling features
- Explain automatic reconnection behavior
- List connection status indicators with meanings
- Document microphone error messages
- Include configuration examples
- Mark error handling as completed in roadmap

Features:
✅ SSL certificate validation with helpful errors
✅ Port conflict detection
✅ Graceful shutdown (Ctrl+C)
✅ Automatic infinite reconnection with exponential backoff
✅ Real-time visual connection status indicator
✅ Specific microphone error messages with guidance
✅ Exception and rejection handling
✅ Configurable reconnection parameters
✅ Server shutdown notifications

This implements feature C: Better error handling with reconnection logic
and user feedback improvements.
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feat: implement comprehensive error handling and automatic reconnection
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Configuration System:
- Add dotenv package for .env file support
- All server settings now configurable via environment variables
- Create .env.example with all available options
- Support multiple configuration methods (file, env vars, Docker)

Server Configuration (server.js):
- Load environment variables from .env file using dotenv
- Make all settings configurable with sensible defaults:
  - SSL_PORT (default: 443)
  - HTTP_PORT (default: 80)
  - PRIVATE_KEY_PATH (default: ./cert/key.pem)
  - CERTIFICATE_PATH (default: ./cert/cert.pem)
  - CORS_ORIGIN (default: *)
  - PING_TIMEOUT (default: 60000ms)
  - PING_INTERVAL (default: 25000ms)
  - NODE_ENV (default: production)
  - DEBUG (default: false)
- Add debug logging to display configuration on startup
- Update Socket.IO initialization to use configurable values

Environment Variables (.env.example):
- Comprehensive example file with all options
- Detailed comments explaining each variable
- Default values documented
- Security recommendations included

Docker Improvements:

Docker Compose (docker-compose.yml):
- Full docker-compose.yml for easy deployment
- Environment variable passthrough
- Volume mounting for SSL certificates
- Network configuration
- Restart policy (unless-stopped)
- Port mapping with variable support

Dockerfile Enhancements:
- Use npm ci for faster, deterministic installs
- Production-only dependencies
- Non-root user (nodejs) for security
- Comprehensive environment variable defaults
- Health check implementation
- Better layer caching
- Security labels and metadata
- Clean up npm cache to reduce image size

Development Tools (.gitignore):
- Exclude .env files from version control
- Add IDE files (.vscode, .idea)
- Add log files (*.log, npm-debug.log*)
- Maintain package-lock.json exclusion

Documentation (README.md):
- Comprehensive installation section with 3 methods
- Docker Compose quick start (recommended)
- Environment variables reference table
- 4 configuration methods documented:
  1. .env file for local development
  2. Docker Compose for production
  3. Docker CLI with -e flags
  4. System environment variables
- Docker Compose configuration examples
- Security best practices section
- Updated roadmap marking config management complete

Features:
✅ Environment variable support with dotenv
✅ .env.example template file
✅ Docker Compose for one-command deployment
✅ Enhanced Dockerfile with security best practices
✅ Non-root Docker container
✅ Health checks
✅ Flexible configuration (4 methods)
✅ Debug logging mode
✅ Production-ready defaults
✅ Comprehensive documentation

Security Improvements:
- Non-root user in Docker (UID 1001)
- .env files excluded from git
- CORS configurable per environment
- Production vs development modes
- SSL certificate path configurability

This implements feature D: Configuration management with environment variables,
config files, and better Docker configuration.
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feat: add comprehensive configuration management with environment variables
… reduction, VAD)

This commit adds comprehensive audio processing features to improve voice quality:

Audio Enhancement Features:
- Echo Cancellation: Uses browser's built-in AEC to reduce feedback
- Noise Suppression: Dual-layer approach with browser-level and custom noise gate
- Voice Activity Detection (VAD): Energy and frequency-based speech detection
- Automatic Gain Control: Browser-level AGC for consistent audio levels

Implementation Details:
- Added enhancements configuration section to config.js
- Updated voip.js to enable browser audio enhancements via getUserMedia constraints
- Implemented VAD function with RMS energy and zero-crossing rate analysis
- Implemented noise suppression with configurable noise gate and smoothing
- Updated audio processing pipeline in voipWorker.js

Configuration:
- All features configurable via VoipConfig.enhancements
- Customizable thresholds for VAD (energy, frequency, silent frames)
- Adjustable noise gate threshold and smoothing factor
- Toggle options for each enhancement

Documentation:
- Added comprehensive Audio Enhancements section to README
- Included configuration examples and tuning tips
- Updated roadmap to mark VAD and echo cancellation as completed
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feat: implement advanced audio enhancements (echo cancellation, noise reduction, VAD)
This commit adds comprehensive user interface enhancements for better audio control and feedback:

Mute/Unmute Controls:
- Added mute button that appears when user starts talking
- Visual feedback with color changes (yellow → red) to indicate mute state
- Mute state prevents audio transmission to other users
- Local audio processing continues even when muted
- Toggle functionality with clear icons (🔇 Mute / 🔊 Unmute)

Visual Audio Level Indicators:
- Real-time microphone level meter with gradient bar (blue)
- Real-time incoming audio level meter with gradient bar (green)
- Percentage display (0-100%) for exact audio levels
- Pulse animation when audio is active (level > 5%)
- Gray state for muted microphone
- RMS-based audio level calculation for accurate metering

UI/UX Improvements:
- Audio levels panel appears when user starts talking
- Smooth CSS transitions and animations
- Responsive design with flexbox layout
- Clear visual hierarchy with proper spacing
- Professional styling with gradients and shadows

Implementation Details:
- Added CSS for audio meters in main.css
- Updated index.html with mute button and audio level UI
- Added mute/unmute functionality in voip.js
- Integrated audio level calculation in main.js using RMS algorithm
- Mute state properly blocks audio transmission in worker message handler

Documentation:
- Added comprehensive "User Controls" section to README
- Documented mute/unmute usage and use cases
- Documented audio level indicators with detailed explanations
- Updated roadmap to mark features as completed
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feat: add user mute/unmute controls and visual audio level indicators
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