Environment Variables

The Genvid MILE SDK uses many environment variables for its configuration. Some of the key variables are defined below.

GENVID_AUDIO_DEVICE

The name of the audio device to use. If it is not set the default audio endpoint will be used.

GENVID_COMMAND_SECRET

commandd API secret, used with the legacy mode.

Deprecated since version 1.23.0.

See also

GENVID_WEBGATEWAY_SECRET

GENVID_DISCO_SECURE

Enables wss scheme for leaf service when this environment variable contains true.

GENVID_LEAF_KEY_FILE

Contains the path of the private key file to use WebSocket secure.

GENVID_LEAF_CERT_FILE

Contains the path of the TLS certificate file to use WebSocket secure.

GENVID_SDK_SETTINGS_SCHEMA

The path with the default settings-schema loaded for this SDK. This value is only used by the genvid-sdk load-config-sdk command.

New in version 1.41.0.

GENVID_SESSION_NAME

The name of the RTMSP session used by the Genvid MILE SDK. This name must be unique in the project. A unique name is created if this variable is absent.

GENVID_SOCKET_NETWORK_BUFFER_SIZE

The per-socket network buffer size. The default value is chosen to be larger than a video frame at 1080p without compression. Depending on the hardware, this value may be adjusted if network I/O performances are not as expected.

GENVID_STATIC_BINDING

This variable is used inside the local Nomad templates (under bastion-services/templates) to allocate a fixed port for each service. The service uses a port allocated dynamically by nomad if not set.

GENVID_STATSD_DISABLED

If the value is “true”, the statsd metrics collection will be disabled for this process.

GENVID_STATSD_URL

The URL for the StatsD server to use. The default address (udp://127.0.0.1:8125) is used if not set. Currently the only scheme available is udp. The scheme is not mandatory.

GENVID_WEBGATEWAY_SECRET

Environment variable that store the webgateway API secret.

New in version 1.23.0.

GVENCODE_FONT_DIR

The directory where gvencode can find its fonts.

PROJECTDIR

This variable is set by the sample scripts to the value of their current directory. Used mostly to set the location of binaries in the local environment.

STUDIO_WEB_DIR

The folder location of the studio web site studiod.

UE4ENGINEDIR

The Engine repository of the your Unreal Engine 4 installation. By default, it should be UE4ROOT/Engine, where UE4ROOT is the installation directory of the engine. See UE4 Sample Application for more information.

UE4ROOT

The repository where Unreal Engine is installed. See also UE4ROOT.

UTROOT

The clone repository of UnrealTournament. See Unreal Tournament Integration for more information.

UNITY_EXE_DIR

The path to the desired Unity Engine executable directory. Needs to be set before using Unity sample and engine-integration scripts.