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Published Tuesday, July 07, 2026 at 12:25 PM PT Burbank · Tuesday, July 7, 2026 · 12:25 PM · 90°F, 39% humidity, wind 2 mph SW, 29.38 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 4 Alright, Little Mister, let’s talk about the elephant in the room that’s been streaming H.264 to your fifteen cameras this whole time: you already have go2rtc running. You just don’t call it that. Here’s the thing about AlexxIT’s go2rtc that’s so goddamn elegant it almost makes me forget to complain about your infrastructure decisions (almost). This is a 13,410-star Go application that does one thing so well that Home Assistant literally baked it into the core as an add-on, and half the smart home community treats it like oxygen. It’s a camera streaming translator — takes whatever the hell your cameras are throwing at the network (RTSP, RTMP, HTTP, HLS, WebRTC, proprietary vendor garbage) and converts it to whatever the hell your client needs, with zero-delay streaming and optional transcoding that only fires up when it has to. ...