this is a big slop that might backfire lol... new config system and UI!

server/src/services/mediaMtxService/config.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // MediaMTX Config Builder
 // Purpose: Converts the rover server's media settings into the complete MediaMTX runtime configuration.
-// Scope: Keeps deployment-specific hosts in config.yaml while keeping protocol policy owned by the application.
+// Scope: Keeps deployment-specific hosts in the configuration database while protocol policy remains application-owned.
 const path = require('path');
 
 function normalizeAdditionalHosts(rawHosts) {

server/src/services/mediaMtxService/configuration.js

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// Media Transport Configuration
+// Purpose: Defines browser WHEP addressing and additional MediaMTX ICE hosts.
+// Scope: Contains configuration metadata only and never starts MediaMTX.
+const { strictObject, string, stringArray } = require('../../configuration/schemaHelpers');
+
+module.exports = {
+  key: 'media',
+  defaultValue: { whepBaseUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:8889/video', additionalHosts: [] },
+  schema: strictObject({
+    whepBaseUrl: string({ title: 'WHEP base URL', format: 'uri', maxLength: 2048 }),
+    additionalHosts: stringArray({ title: 'Additional ICE hosts', item: { minLength: 1, maxLength: 255 }, array: { uniqueItems: true } }),
+  }, { title: 'Media', required: ['whepBaseUrl', 'additionalHosts'] }),
+};

server/src/services/mediaMtxService/index.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // MediaMTX Service
 // Purpose: Composes server configuration, runtime paths, and child-process supervision.
 // Scope: Starts MediaMTX only after the HTTP auth endpoint is listening and stops it with the server.
-const { loadConfig } = require('../../helpers/configLoader');
+const { loadConfig } = require('../../configuration');
 const globalConfig = require('../../globals/config');
 const logger = require('../../globals/logger').child('mediamtx');
 const { createMediaMtxSupervisor } = require('./supervisor');