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Running LiveKit locally

This will get a LiveKit instance up and running, ready to receive audio and video streams from participants.

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Install LiveKit Server

brew install livekit

Start the server in dev mode

You can start LiveKit in development mode by running:

livekit-server --dev

This will start an instance using the following API key/secret pair:

API key: devkey
API secret: secret

To customize your setup for production, refer to our deployment guides.

By default LiveKit's signal server binds to 127.0.0.1:7880. If you'd like to access it from other devices on your network, pass in --bind 0.0.0.0

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