If you have IP cameras that stream video feed over RTSP or have video captured from your laptop's webcam, and you wish to visualize this content in real-time with extremely low latency, securely over TLS, within your web browser or on a grafana dashboard because maybe you want to build an home monitoring dashboard, you can configure go2rtc, a server that provides the shortest streaming latency possible and is effortless to set up on any operating system. You can checkout this fantastic project on its official GitHub repository: https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc.

Demo: Grafana dashboard showing my home ip camera live feed, on the left I captured the video from a webcam to show you that the latency is imperceptible.

webrtc-livecamera-demo.mp4

In this repository, I demonstrate how you can in 1 minute, see your live camera feed on a grafana dashboard (or just in the browser). Here are the steps:

1. Modify the go2rtc-config/go2rtc.yaml file with your desired source. I already left two examples in the file, but you can find additional examples and configuration settings at this link: https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc#source-rtsp.

2. Customize the Grafana dashboard to display the live camera stream using a 'Text' panel and embedding the WebRTC stream inside an Iframe. To do so you can update the content tag within grafana/dashboard/dashboards/dashboard.json with your specific Iframe. For example, if your go2rtc server is running on localhost and the web UI is on port 1984, and the stream name you configured in go2rtc-config/go2rtc.yaml is 'dahua', the live camera will be shown in the browser at http://localhost:1984/stream.html?src=dahua&mode=webrtc, so you can use the following Iframe:

   <iframe width="1000" height="1000"
      src="http://localhost:1984/stream.html?src=dahua&mode=webrtc">
   </iframe>

3. Launch go2rtc and Grafana in separate containers using docker-compose up -d.

4. Access the Grafana dashboard at http://localhost:3000/d/b303f51a-4216-43f3-a57d-0e0d4e9a42bb/livecamerademodashboard?orgId=1 and the go2rtc web UI at http://localhost:1984.