Chapter 2 - Installation

Refer to the Open RV README to learn how to build and install Open RV.

If you’re using network proxies or self-signed certificates, read on.

Proxy Configuration

If your network uses a proxy server, you can configure Open RV to use it by setting the following environment variables.

Environment variable	Type	Required?	Description
RV_NETWORK_PROXY_HOST	string	required	Proxy host name or IP address
RV_NETWORK_PROXY_PORT	int	required	Proxy port number
RV_NETWORK_PROXY_USER	string	optional	Username for proxy service
RV_NETWORK_PROXY_PASSWORD	string	optional	Password for proxy service

Note: If you do not set a proxy, Open RV always uses the operating system’s proxy. To have Open RV to ignore all proxies (including the system’s own), set the environment variable RV_NETWORK_PROXY_DISABLE.

About Self-Signed Certificates and Open RV

Open RV uses QtWebEngine as a browser backend, built on top of Chromium. Because of the Chromium backend, Open RV uses the system certificate store to approve SSL certificates. If your studio uses a custom certificate on the network path between Open RV and your media, you must make sure that the Certificate Authority (CA) is in the system’s centralized store. Adding the certificate to Google Chrome is the easy method, but you can use any method supported by your operating system.

The Python version embedded with Open RV uses its own built-in certificates file, which stores root certificates for the most common certificate authorities. But you can have Python use your self-signed certificate by setting the path to the file in the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable.