This project is inspired and based on the alexellis/raspberrypi-youtube-streaming code and docker image.

The app was tested against Raspberry Pi A and Raspberry Pi 2

• Get Raspberry PI

• Install Jessie image and configure it so that it can connect to the internet

• Update firmware (rpi-update) and software (apt-get update && at-get upgrade)

• Make sure camera module is enabled (raspi-config)

• Get your stream secret key (STREAM_YOUTUBE_SECRET) from https://www.youtube.com/live_dashboard

• Install docker

$ curl -sSL get.docker.com | sh
$ sudo usermod pi -aG docker
$ reboot

• Clone this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/ChieftainY2k/raspberrypi-video-streamer 

• Goto repo directory

$ cd raspberrypi-video-streamer

• Build docker image for the "camera" container

$ docker build -t streamer ./docker 

• Initiate and run streamer container (replace xxxxxxx with your secret key)

$ docker run --detach --restart unless-stopped --privileged -e STREAM_YOUTUBE_SECRET="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" -e STREAM_BITRATE=500000 -e STREAM_FPS=30 -e STREAM_WIDTH=800 -e STREAM_HEIGHT=600 --name camera streamer

Note: stream container will restart automatically on reboot or failure unless you stop it with the "docker stop" command.

• Go to https://www.youtube.com/live_dashboard and chech if your stream is live

• Stop the streamer container (may take a while)

$ docker stop camera  

• Start the stopped streamer container

$ docker start camera

• Attach to container console

$ docker attach camera

• Kill stream process and remove container

$ docker rm -f camera

• Show container logs

$ docker logs camera

• (optional) Install python PIP

$sudo apt-get install python3-pip

• (optional) Install docker-compose

$ sudo pip3 install docker-compose