yggi / cam2jitsi

Puppeteer script to stream a webcam to a jitsi room.

cam2jitsi

Directly stream a webcam into a jitsi room.

Intended to run headless on a Raspberry Pi

Requirements

• Hardware: Raspberry Pi

  • Runs fine with a 720p cam on a Pi 2

• OS: Raspberry Pi OS Lite

• Software:

  • chromium
  • chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
  • npm
  • puppeteer

• Script:

  • stream.js (from this repo)

Installation

Run on Pi:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium chromium-codecs-ffmpeg npm git
npm i puppeteer
git clone https://github.com/yggi/cam2jitsi.git

Configuration

Set the default jitsi link and screen name in stream.js:

vi cam2jitsi/stream.js

Execution

Manual Start

node cam2jitsi/stream.js <JITSI-LINK> <NAME>

Autostart

Add to rc.local (before final "exit 0" line):

node /home/pi/cam2jitsi/stream.js <JITSI-LINK> <NAME> &

References

• Original puppeteer script by saghul
• Running puppeteer on raspian by Sami C.
• Jitsi url options

License

Released as Public Domain under CC0-License