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🎥 Bubbaloop

Multi-camera RTSP streaming with ROS-Z and real-time browser visualization.

Bubbaloop captures H264 streams directly from RTSP cameras with zero decode overhead and publishes them via Zenoh/ROS-Z for real-time visualization in the React Dashboard.

✨ Features

  • 🚀 Zero-copy H264 passthrough — No decoding overhead, direct stream forwarding
  • 📡 Multi-camera support — Stream from multiple RTSP cameras simultaneously
  • 🔌 Zenoh/ROS-Z integration — Publish camera streams as ROS-compatible topics
  • 🌐 React Dashboard — Real-time browser visualization with WebCodecs, live FPS/latency stats
  • 🔒 Remote access — HTTPS with self-signed cert, single-port deployment
  • ⚙️ Simple YAML config — Easy camera configuration

🏗️ Tech Stack

Component Technology
Language Rust 🦀
Video Capture GStreamer
Messaging Zenoh / ROS-Z
Dashboard React + WebCodecs
Package Manager Pixi

🚀 Quick Start

# Install dependencies
pixi install

# Start everything (bridge + cameras + dashboard)
pixi run up

Open http://localhost:5173 in Chrome, Edge, or Safari.

See Quickstart for detailed setup instructions.

📦 Available Commands

Command Description
pixi run cameras Start camera capture and Zenoh publishing
pixi run dashboard Start React dashboard (auto npm install)
pixi run build Build Rust binaries
pixi run docs Serve documentation locally

👥 Community