Robot Rabbit #82

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#82

After 2 days I figured out the webrtc protocol I'm going to use for streaming video from the robot's camera and controlling the robot from the browser. Of course it's not just a simple http server with requests and responses. By this point I'd already run into a ton of edge cases and odd behavior during reconnects and reboots. I started with a smart signaling server but ended up just broadcasting the message through websocket like an idiot.

Result on the screen. The terminal in the bottom left is a python script sending the offer, the browser on the left is the robot UI with a dualsense connected. After the connection is set up commands from the joystick go through webrtc into the python script through the data channel and for now they're just logged there.

After 2 days I figured out the webrtc protocol I'm going… (video)