# How to display video from phone in dashboard via protocol RTMP

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**Created:** [12 June 2019 09:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-display-video-from-phone-in-dashboard-via-protocol-rtmp/12098 "2019-06-12T09:10:13Z")\
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> [@hathemi](#):
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> RTMP Camera app

Have you looked into the requirements when using rtmp? You need to connect your rtmp app to a rtmp server (typically hosted on internet where there are various providers, I think youtube supports this as well)  
This article, even though ment for IPhone, is very informative

> **[The 12 Best iOS Live Streaming Apps for iPhone with RTMP Ingest \[2023 Update\]](https://www.dacast.com/blog/live-streaming-apps-for-iphone/)**
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> Explore the top 5 iOS RTMP streaming apps to connect your iPhone to your OVP.

If you then can view your camera in this way, from youtube or other, you should be able to use the same url in the iframe. But direct rtmp connection to the dashboard, no I think that is not possible (unless you can find or invent a node written as a rtmp server)

EDIT: Well, there seem to be a node-media-server supporting rtmp available, maybe this is a starting point for having your local rtmp server

> **[node-media-server](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-media-server)**
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> A Node.js implementation of RTMP Server. Latest version: 2.6.2, last published: 7 months ago. Start using node-media-server in your project by running \`npm i node-media-server\`. There are 9 other projects in the npm registry using node-media-server.

It seems you can even have a local rtmp server running on a raspberry pi....

> **[How to set up your own private RTMP server using nginx](https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/)**
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> Most people who stream enjoy using services such as Twitch.tv or Ustream to deliver video to viewers, and that works well enough. But sometimes you want some more control over your stream, or you want other people to be able to stream to you, or...

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