Running stream.place locally on MacOs

The first ATmosphere Conference that took place in Seatle, March 22nd & 23rd was streamed on atproto itself thanks to it's first sponsor stream.place

The stream was pretty impressive that it made to the top of my list of things to try on atproto. It also has an android app though in early phases and did not allow making WebRTC streams fullscreen. And it being an open-source project so it was time for me to rollup the sleeves and fix it for myself. And after hitting a few walls and Eli guiding me through them while shipping new features to stream.place; got my node streaming and the app running. Long-story-short ended up being the first person outside of Eli to get this far and here is how you can as well.

Clone the repo here - https://github.com/streamplace/streamplace

Make sure to have Node, Yarn, Meson, Ninja, and Go 1.23

IMPORTANT Go 1.24 is blocked, you will see error like this when building your node if you are already on 1.24. brew uninstall go and use version manager or install 1.23 with homebrew. Would recommend using version managers where possible like FastNodeManager for node.

You will also need python with setuptools and java 17 if building for android. Here are all things you need to get setup

brew install fnm
fnm install 22
npm install yarn -g

brew install meson ninja
brew install go@1.23

brew install uv
uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install setuptools

brew install openjdk@17

Now you are ready to build your node but before you can test it will need to use real device or use the pre-built debug version for virtual device as built on expo will fail. Now lets get the party started

make
yarn install
yarn build

make node && ./build-darwin-arm64/streamplace --no-firehose --wide-open

Use the flags only for testing as --wide-open allows anyone to stream on your node. Visit http://127.0.01:38080 login with bsky and goto http://127.0.0.1:38080/live to start streaming and run yarn run app android and you are live 🚀

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