pi-webrtc · mazupo/pi-webrtc GitHub

Low-latency hardware-accelerated WebRTC video streaming and remote control for Raspberry Pi & NVIDIA Jetson.

pi-webrtc

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What is pi-webrtc?

A single binary that streams a camera from a Raspberry Pi or Jetson to a browser over WebRTC, and carries control messages back to the device. It delivers sub-100ms latency on LAN and works remotely over WiFi, LTE, or 5G with no public IP.

▶ Watch the full demo

Features

Low-latency video — WebRTC with NAT traversal and congestion control.
Remote control — commands and telemetry over WebRTC DataChannels.
Hardware acceleration — H.264/AV1 on supported devices.
RTSP input — add WebRTC and DataChannels to an existing IP camera.

Signaling

Signaling	Use case
WHEP	Playback with any standard WebRTC player
MQTT	Peer-to-peer from anywhere, with device control
SFU	Many viewers at once via LiveKit or Cloudflare Realtime

Several signaling options can run at the same time. See Signaling.

Quick Start

On a Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS Trixie (64-bit) and a CSI camera:

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

wget https://github.com/mazupo/pi-webrtc/releases/latest/download/pi-webrtc_raspios-trixie-arm64.tar.gz
tar -xzf pi-webrtc_raspios-trixie-arm64.tar.gz

./pi-webrtc --camera=libcamera:0 --uid=my-pi --no-audio --use-whep

Open app.mazupo.com/whep, enter http://:8080 as the WHEP URL, and connect.

Step-by-step guides: Raspberry Pi · NVIDIA Jetson · Watch from anywhere with MQTT

Hardware

Platform	Camera backend	Hardware encoding
Raspberry Pi	libcamera	H.264 on supported models
NVIDIA Jetson	libargus	H.264 / AV1 on supported models

USB cameras (V4L2) and RTSP streams work on both platforms.

Documentation

📚 Full documentation, also readable in docs/.

Support the project

Sponsors help fund continued development and receive access to additional releases, features, and documentation. See Sponsors.

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE. Third-party notices: see NOTICE.