IPTV-Restream/backend/README.md

Backend

A simple NodeJS web server that retrieves your IPTV stream, caches it, and converts it into an HLS stream, making it accessible via the web. Also supports multiple IPTV streams (channel selection).

🚀 Run

Setup a .env file or equivalent environment variables:

STORAGE_PATH=/mnt/streams/recordings

The storage directory has to exist. There will be alot of I/O, so it makes sense to mount the storage into ram memory.

Before running, make sure you have ffmpeg installed on your system.

node index.js

Be aware, that this application is designed for Linux systems!

To use together with the frontend, run with docker.

🛠️ Architecture

API

• Endpoints to add a channel, get all channels, get selected channel and set selected channel

WebSockets

• channel-added and channel-selected events will be send to all connected clients
• chat messages: send-chat-message and chat-message
• users: user-connected and user-disconnected