This post is a getting-started guide to OpenVidu on Hetzner Cloud. It gathers in one place all the steps needed to go from an empty Hetzner account to a working OpenVidu deployment in a few minutes: which instance to pick, which ports to open, and the one command that installs everything. It is deliberately shorter than the official self-hosting documentation; the goal here is a running deployment today, not covering every option.
If you're tired of reaching for the cursor to hit the camera icon every time you want to disappear from the meeting, you're in luck. At OpenVidu we've built an open-source prototype that lets you control your video call's features with gestures, like an actual tech shaman.
With the world being flooded with all kinds of agents, bots, and AI services, let's keep things grounded and code something tangible in a few simple steps. Let's build an AI agent that helps people in an audio call. Our agent will:
We'll be using OpenVidu as our media server, and LiveKit Agents Python framework to build our agent. These tools handle all the hard parts of real-time audio transport, so we can focus on our agent features.