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livekit & coturn

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Some information is at 2025-05-02 and 2025-05-01

Guide: https://docs.livekit.io/home/self-hosting/vm/

Test functionality: https://livekit.io/connection-test

Quick-start

docker pull livekit/generate
docker run --rm -it -v./livekit_generated:/output livekit/generate

For LiveKit:

echo "* soft nofile 2048" > /etc/security/limits.d/10-livekit.conf
echo "vm.overcommit_memory = 1" > /etc/sysctl.d/90-redis.conf
service procps force-reload

Get token

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install livekit-api
export LIVEKIT_API_KEY=<your-api-key>
export LIVEKIT_API_SECRET=<your-api-secret>
python livekit_token.py
import os
from livekit import api


token = api.AccessToken(os.getenv('LIVEKIT_API_KEY'), os.getenv('LIVEKIT_API_SECRET')) \
  .with_identity("identity") \
  .with_name("my name") \
  .with_grants(api.VideoGrants(
      room_join=True,
      room="test",
  ))


print(token.to_jwt())

CLI

curl -sSL https://get.livekit.io/cli | bash
export LIVEKIT_URL="https://livekit.example.com"
export LIVEKIT_API_KEY=<your-api-key>
export LIVEKIT_API_SECRET=<your-api-secret>

Check configuration

https://livekit.io/connection-test -> takes wss:// with domain name and room token (the one - comes from generate script)

coturn

there is a turnadmin tool to create users; sqlite (userdb=/var/db/turndb in config)

/> 128 symbols password advised