FFmpeg

Homebridge Live Stream Support

To use camera live streams with the ring-client or homebridge-ring, you must have ffmpeg installed. If you want audio as well, then your ffmpeg binaries must also be built with the libfdk_aac library. Starting in version 7.2.0, a pre-built copy of ffmpeg is automatically installed with ring-client and homebridge-ring. This is made possible by using the ffmpeg-for-homebridge node module, which supports most environments out of the box, but not all. See https://www.npmjs.com/package/ffmpeg-for-homebridge#supported-platforms for the full list of supported platforms.

Other Platforms:

If you are running homebridge on a different platform, you will need to research how to build ffmpeg. The most important part is that you include --enable-libfdk-aac when building ffmpeg to enable the libfdk_aac codec if you want to receive audio. Once you have ffmpeg with libfdk_aac installed on your homebridge server, you can set the ffmpegPath in your config to point to your new binary. Once that is done, you should be able to receive audio and video in your camera streams.

Docker-Homebridge:

ffmpeg, with libfdk-aac audio support is included in this image.