If checked, anonymous Peertube users won't see the chat. This feature is still experimental. If youenabled it, it is highly recommended to also check "Don't publish chat information". Otherwise, some third party tools could try to open the chat, and have unpredictable behaviours.
By enabling this option, each time an anonymoususeris banned from a chatroom, it's IP will also be banned from the chat server. Warning: if yourinstanceis open to registration, any user could create a trapped-room, invite users to join, and automatically ban all anonymoususer's IPs. The banned IP list isnot stored, it will be cleared on server restart, or when you change some plugin's settings. The banned IP are logged in the Prosody server log files, so server's administrators can eventually use some external tools (like fail2ban) to ban IPs more widely.
Then open your browser onthe address [http://localhost:1313/peertube-plugin-livechat/](http://localhost:1313/peertube-plugin-livechat/).This page will automatically refreshon each modification.
Youcan choose from several different sets the default avatars that will be used for chat users. Please refer to the documentation: <a href="https://livingston.frama.io/peertube-plugin-livechat/documentation/admin/settings/" target="_blank">Settings</a>.
Some linux distro (like Debian Bullseye for example) have too old version of `po4a`.Please make sure to install a compatible version.If you are using Debian Bullseye for example, youcan download the Bookworm po4a.deb file from [https://packages.debian.org](https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/po4a/download), and install it manually.