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Shairyar
Shairyar

Reputation: 3356

is it possible to check the talk time consumed by users using opentok

What am I doing

I integrated opentok with our membership site and it is working perfectly fine. Our website is a member based site where you can signup and hold one on one video conferences with your clients who schedule a meeting with you.

What my understanding is of opentok

I understand that there is a monthly fee involved and then based on the number of minutes i utilized, i get billed. (of course after the first 10K minutes)

What I want to know

Since people will be signing up to use our service, I wanted to keep track of which user is consuming how many minutes. So is there a way to keep track of which user consumed how much talk time on OpenTok?

I will really appreciate any guidance here.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 655

Answers (1)

songz
songz

Reputation: 2092

Piggybacking on @benjamintrent's comments, here are some OpenTok specific sample codes. It really depends on how you would want to bill your users, here are 2 cases:

If you want to start billing users the moment they go into the chat, you can send a post request to your server indicating start time:

session.on("sessionConnected", function(err){
  if(!err){
    $.post("/server/userId", {startTime: date.now()}, function(){...});
  }
});

In most cases, you probably want to start billing when users are actually connected to the users they were supposed to be connected to:

session.on("streamCreated", function(stream){
  if(stream.connection.connectionData == "username I was supposed to connect to"){
    $.post("/server/userId", {startTime: date.now()}, function(){...});
  }
});

You probably want to end a video chat session when he is disconnected from a session, or if the person you are supposed to talk to leaves the chatroom:

session.on("streamDestroyed", function(stream){
  if(stream.connection.connectionData == "username I was supposed to connect to"){
    $.post("/server/userId", {endTime: date.now()}, function(){...});
  }
});

Unfortunately, if a user closes the browser, you will not get sessionDisconnected or streamDestroyed event. To overcome this, you can send a heartbeat post request to your server every 5 seconds. Your server will know that user has closed their browser if it stops receiving a heartbeat request and end the billing accordingly.

setInterval(function(){
  $.post("/heartbeat/userId", {currentTime: date.now()}, function(){...});
}, 5000);

Hope that helped, good luck!

Upvotes: 1

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