My school had multiple Raspberri Pi 3s lying around, all being unused. After experimenting with hosting an NGINX powered RTMP server on my windows PC so that I could live stream from my phone to my PC - I realised this would work well on a Pi.
This is not normally used, but I recommend doing all of this as root to skip the use of Sudo
$ sudo su
Next, we need to install all of the pre-requisites for NGINX to work on our raspberry pi
sudo apt-get install build-essential libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libssl-dev unzip
NGINX is a a web-server application that does not normally come with the ability to do RTMP streaming, we will need to set this up for ourselves.
- Find the version number of the latest stable model of NGINX using this link
- Download the latest version using wget, for this example I am using 1.15.8
$ wget https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.15.8.tar.gz - Download the NGINX RTMP source code from github
$ wget https://github.com/sergey-dryabzhinsky/nginx-rtmp-module/archive/dev.zip - Unzip & Unpack both of these, then enter the NGINX directory
$ tar -zxvf nginx-1.15.8.tar.gz && unzip dev.zip && cd nginx-1.15.1 - Build NGINX
$ tar -zxvf nginx-1.15.8.tar.gz
$ unzip dev.zip
$ cd nginx-1.15.8 - Use this command to run your server
$ sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
We need to manually add in the RTMP module to our server to be able to stream to it