Trouble setting announced IP while deploying on render.

Deployment & Scalability
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Hello, I have created a video conferencing application in mediasoup which works absolutely fine on localhost.

But I need to deploy it on render but services on render cannot be accessed by IP address, as answered by them:

“”"
Hi Aditya,
Services on Render cannot be accessed by an IP address. They must be accessed by a domain name, either the automatically provided sub-domain on the .onrender.com domain, or a Custom Domain of your own.
“”"

I tried to set announcedAddress to process.env.RENDER_EXTERNAL_URL, which basically is the subdomain through which I can access the express app.

listenInfos: [
          {
            protocol: "udp",
            ip: '0.0.0.0',
            announcedAddress: process.env.RENDER_EXTERNAL_URL
          },
          {
            protocol: "tcp",
            ip: '0.0.0.0',
            announcedAddress: process.env.RENDER_EXTERNAL_URL
          }
        ]

But this doesn’t work either and as a result, the audio and video are all blank.

Does anyone have any solution as to how can I fix this?

Note, this project: https://mediasoup-sfu-webrtc-video-rooms-kuv2.onrender.com/ is a fork of the example on discourse docs GitHub - Dirvann/mediasoup-sfu-webrtc-video-rooms: A simple video conferencing example using the mediasoup sfu

2

I had a similar problem and this is because render doesnt support udp traffic and so you cant send or receive streams thats why your videos are blank. In my case i had to move to an AWS ec2 instance. But you should be able to find someother host or cloud provider that supports udp traffic.

3

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