KGBaby – A WebRTC based audio baby monitor I built on pat leave

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Baby monitors are a great boon. We use the audio-only Motorola AM21, which is excellent. But being on pat leave with a 2-month-old right now, I decided to build a browser-based alternative using WebRTC and some AI coding agents (Codex & Gemini).It is an open-source, zero-latency P2P monitor. Hardware reuse: You can repurpose an old phone or tablet to be the child unit instead of buying single-purpose hardware. Actually private: Unlike using a never-ending Google Meet or Zoom, your stream stays private via WebRTC (PeerJS for signaling). No cloud routing. The backgrounding hack: Mobile Safari aggressively kills background audio. I used a hidden 1x1 base64 looping video to keep the microphone a

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Website: legodud3.github.io/kgbaby