Setup

• Copy .env.example to .env & fill up env below

# if you have your own RTSP URL
RTSP_URL= 

Setup Settings.py

• Add INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'channels',
]

• Add ASGI_APPLICATION and CHANNEL_LAYERS
  • Must change <YOUR_DJANGO_PROJECT_NAME>.asgi.application below

ASGI_APPLICATION = 'realtime_video_stream.asgi.application'

CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
    "default": {
        "BACKEND": "channels.layers.InMemoryChannelLayer"
    },
}

Create Consumer

• Refer to livestreaming/consumers.py
• StreamConsumer class will be served as ASGI.

Create Routing

• Refer to livestreaming/routing.py
• Regex is used to route to Consumer class

re_path(r'ws/stream/$', consumers.StreamConsumer.as_asgi()),

Configure ASGI.py

• http request: route to main urls.py
• websocket request: route to routing.py

application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
    "http": get_asgi_application(),
    "websocket": URLRouter(livestreaming.routing.websocket_urlpatterns),
})

Create Frontend Client

• Refer to video_stream_view in livestreaming/views.py
• Frontend websocket to stream video