How to autostart the video server on the Pi

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 4b- 8g
OS: Ubuntu Server 22.04 lts
Program: mediamtx

When trying to accomplish Auto start on system startup/reboot,

Solution: For the mediamtx.service file, you will need to add and edit the following:

[Unit]
Description=mediamtx
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mediamtx /usr/local/etc/mediamtx.yml

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

To build the auto start file, the Solution: The root user is needed sudo -i

Build your file:

crontab -e 

(if this is new, select 1 when prompted)

at the end of the file add the 3 @ lines

@reboot sudo systemctl enable mediamtx.service &
@reboot sudo systemctl stop mediamtx.service &
@reboot nohup sudo mediamtx.service &