About RaspberryPi-WebRTC

Native WebRTC low-latency P2P video streaming on Raspberry Pi and NVIDIA Jetson with both hardware and software encoding support.

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Raspberry Pi WebRTC

Turn Raspberry Pi or NVIDIA Jetson into a low-latency ~200ms WebRTC streaming platform.

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Native WebRTC with hardware/software encoding
Support snapshot, recording and broadcasting
Remote control and IoT messaging via WebRTC DataChannel
Signaling options:

MQTT
- picamera.js
- picamera-react-native
- picamera-web
- picamera-app - Android
WHEP
- Home Assistant WebRTC Camera
- eyevinn/webrtc-player
WebSocket
- picamera.js - SFU signaling & broadcast

Requirements

Raspberry Pi (Zero/3/4/5) or NVIDIA Jetson (Nano/NX/Orin)
CSI or USB camera (supports libcamera, libargus or V4L2)

Quick Start for Pi

Check out the tutorial video or follow these steps.

1. Flash Raspberry Pi OS

Use Raspberry Pi Imager to flash Lite OS to SD card.

2. Install Dependencies

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libmosquitto1 pulseaudio libavformat61 libswscale8 libyaml-cpp0.8

3. Download Binary

Get the latest release binary .

wget https://github.com/TzuHuanTai/RaspberryPi-WebRTC/releases/latest/download/pi-webrtc_raspios-trixie-arm64.tar.gz
tar -xzf pi-webrtc_raspios-trixie-arm64.tar.gz

4. MQTT Signaling

Use HiveMQ, EMQX, or a self-hosted broker.

[!TIP] MQTT lets your Pi camera and client exchange WebRTC connection info. WHEP doesn’t need a broker but requires a public hostname.

Run the App

preview_demo

Open picamera-web, add MQTT settings, and create a UID.

Run the command on your Pi:

  ./pi-webrtc \
      --camera=libcamera:0 \
      --fps=30 \
      --width=1280 \
      --height=960 \
      --use-mqtt \
      --mqtt-host=your.mqtt.cloud \
      --mqtt-port=8883 \
      --mqtt-username=hakunamatata \
      --mqtt-password=Wonderful \
      --uid=your-custom-uid \
      --no-audio \
      --hw-accel # Only Pi Zero 2W, 3B, 4B support hw encoding

[!IMPORTANT] Remove --hw-accel for Pi 5 or others without hardware encoder.

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