WebRTC¶

To use WebRTC, replace ?action=stream with webrtc in your webcam URL configuration.

Note

This feature only works if you are using mode: camera-streamer or mode: spyglass on a Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi 5 users

The Pi 5 has no hardware video encoders, which causes several limitations:

mode: camera-streamer is not supported. Crowsnest ships the Raspberry Pi-specific build of camera-streamer, which relies on hardware encoding and therefore does not run on the Pi 5.
WebRTC is disabled by default in Spyglass on the Pi 5, because software encoding consumes a significant amount of CPU resources. If you still want to enable it, set mode: spyglass and add custom_flags: --force-webrtc, but we do not recommend it.

Warning

Do not change the URL Snapshot setting! It should remain the same as before.

WebRTC settings in Mainsail Interface Settings

Which service should I choose?¶

Mainsail offers multiple WebRTC services. The correct choice depends on the mode you have set for the camera in your crowsnest.conf:

Mode in `crowsnest.conf`	WebRTC Service in Mainsail
`camera-streamer`	`WebRTC (camera-streamer)`
`spyglass`	`WebRTC (MediaMTX)`