How would you go about making this accessible over the internet? about pistreaming HOT 6 CLOSED

It'll need a little more than that, but not much since it's just using TCP for everything. Firstly you'll need to forward two ports: 8082 for the HTTP connection, and 8084 for the WS connection. Secondly you'll need to tweak the code a bit so that the URL for the WS connection points to the router's external IP rather than the Pi's address...

If you look at index.html you'll see ws://${ADDRESS}/ somewhere in there. That's the URL for the video stream. ADDRESS is substituted in do_GET (in server.py) for the socket's own address (see getsockname). But that'll be internal to the LAN the Pi is on. You could simply hard-code that as your external address (or hostname - it doesn't have to be an IP), or you could do something a bit more nuanced to try and calculate your external address (e.g. Google "what's my IP?").

Anyway, I think that should be enough to get it working over the internet. As to how secure the code is ... no idea. I haven't put any thought into security on this; nothing's encrypted, there's no authentication, and the error checking is minimal.

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That's done it, replacing the address variable with hardcoded domain name and ports forwarded. got a friend to test remotely and the quality/speed is apparently fantastic.

Thanks again!

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Great stuff! Glad to see it's a simple as I thought. Don't know about the quality being great - this is only MPEG1 - but it's good enough for a demo.

The display-o-tron is something I need to have a play with (had one sitting in a drawer for a while). However, I did throw something together for pimoroni's pantilthat recently (if you've got one, checkout the pantilthat branch on this repo :). Anyway, have fun!

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well, 640x480 picture was apparently very smooth and very fast - speaking with a friend on the phone and my lips were syncd to my voice. I realise this is only one person connecting in, but over a home broadband connection which I later realised was also uploading a huge file via torrent at the same time, it was fantastic.

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• and you should definitely play with the displayotron, it's great! Accidentally ordered 2, ended up buying another pi to use them both at the same time :)

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