This project wants to provide an easy and stable way to stream the video feed of a Raspberry Pi camera module to a Restreamer cloud instance. Restreamer can redistributed the live feed as HLS stream, so that the video can be embedded into websites, and also redirect to other streaming providers like Youtube.

picam-stream actively checks if Restreamer has encountered a problem and if so restarts the stream.

Currently most of the parameters are fixed

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install `ffmpeg python3 python3-pip git`

git clone https://github.com/philipptrenz/restreamer-picam-stream.git picam-stream
cd picam-stream

sudo cp picam-stream /etc/init.d/
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/picam-stream
sudo update-rc.d picam-stream defaults

Create a JSON file in the root of the project directory, which follows this scheme:

{
  "host": "example.com",
  "stream_token": "abc123",
  "stream_config": {
    "width": 1269,
    "height": 730,
    "fps": 2,
    "raspivid_mode": 4,
    "group_of_pictures": 10,
    "h264_constant_rate_factor": 23
  }
}

sudo service picam-stream start

It will also automatically be started on boot. The logs can be found at /var/log/picam-stream.log.