webrtc VS rtctunnel

I am really excited about https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer. It has examples ready for ESP32 etc....

When working on KVS I wasn't familiar with the embedded space at all. I saw 'heavyweight' embedded where you were running on Linux. Then you had RTOS/No OS at all. I wasn't prepared for these devices at all. If we can make WebRTC work in the embedded space I think it will really accelerate what developers are able to build!

Remotely driven cars, security cameras, robots in hospitals that bring iPads to infectious patients etc... Creative people are building amazing things. The WebRTC/video space needs to work harder and support them :)

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I love how diverse the WebRTC space is now. Outside of this implementation you have plenty of other options!

* https://github.com/shinyoshiaki/werift-webrtc (Typescript)

* https://github.com/pion/webrtc (Golang)

* https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc (Rust)

* https://github.com/algesten/str0m (Rust)

* hhttps://github.com/sepfy/libpeer (C/Embedded)

* https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/ (C++)

* https://github.com/sipsorcery-org/sipsorcery (C#)

* https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel (C++)

* https://github.com/elixir-webrtc (Elixir)

* https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc (Python)

* GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)

See https://github.com/sipsorcery/webrtc-echoes for examples of some running against each other.

This is not true, there are actually multiple WebRTC implementations in different languages besides the reference library: aiortc (python), libdatachannel (C++), sipsorcery (C#),webrtc-rs (rust), werift (Typescript), and Amazon Kinesis (C)

I am trying to get WebRTC working using Rust https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc

I have opened an issue on GitHub [1], we can continue there.

[1] https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc/issues/426

webrtc

webrtc.rs is a port of Pion (which we also use). It's a better fit for server-side use

I want to use peer-to-peer communication and data transfer for my next side project (client-server web app). I've been doing some research and WebRTC seems to be the only option for this on the client. There are a ton of libraries and product offering for facilitating STUN/TURN servers as a service, but I'm quite interested in learning more about these protocols. That being said, I'm not the best rust programmer (part of the reason of using Rust as the server is so that I can learn more), and the signalling protocols seem rather complicated. I've looked at https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc and it seems promising.

Hey HN, web-p2p-tunnel is a hobby project I built over the past month.

It enables you to expose a local web server to devices on different networks. Nothing to install on the consuming devices - just a web browser. And no server in the middle. It uses a Service Worker to intercept HTTP requests and WebRTC to tunnel requests/responses directly between consuming devices and the device running the local web server.

To use: install the web-p2p-tunnel CLI program which receives requests, reverse proxies them, and tunnels responses. See the README for details. The website is deployed using Github Pages at https://tunnel.andrewt.io/. Additionally, a signaling server is deployed at https://signal.andrewt.io/.

I've tested on a number of OSs and browsers and with simple static web sites and more complicated apps. A lot of it just works, but there are kinks and edge cases and almost certainly bugs. Let me know :) Currently, there are no TURN servers configured, so connections may fail under certain network conditions.

Motivation: I built some media features using WebRTC at my last job. It's a bit of a pain to use, but it's a powerful technology. On the media side of things, however, P2P quickly turns into more of a client-server situation w/ something like an SFU for common use cases. From my understanding, WebTransport might become the better technology for this use case. This got me thinking about use cases that would specifically benefit from the P2P aspect of WebRTC, which led me here. I was inspired in part by this project: https://github.com/rtctunnel/rtctunnel.

Excited to share the project - I think it could be a useful dev tool. Feedback appreciated!

LiveShare type application from VScode