[potmat]

I maintain a Homebridge (community built system to bridge IoT devices to Apple HomeKit) plugin for Google Nest devices. The newer Nest cams use WebRTC for video streaming. This makes viewing the cameras in Apple Home a bit complex, as the bridge must setup and connect to a WebRTC stream, transcode it, and then send it out to your iPhone etc. as an RTSP stream.

https://github.com/potmat/homebridge-google-nest-sdm

Since this is for home automation the system runs on all kinds of weird devices, from RPi's to NAS's to old laptops etc. When I tried to use anything requiring platform specific binaries it was a complete mess, most of the time things would not build.

The problem may not be insurmountable if you're being paid, but since this is just done in my spare time it's not something I wanted to deal with.

[keepamovin]

Completely understand, yeah. It is annoying trying to get those builds to work! You'd rather just do something that slips right in. It's always good to shop around and find the lib that best suits your purpose!

Cool, these home automation projects seems pretty nifty, and like a compelling rabbithole where you can just keep adding stuff. Your set up sounds like a big project, well done! It's cool you created a whole streaming stack for this. The use of a dedicated streaming RTSP server is a high level of technical sophistication!