Hi there,
It's been a while(I don't know why this has started as an email). I've been busy with just life in general, but I'd like to resurrect this blog by adding a post about my streaming setup for meetups.
In February 2024, I had my first hardware meetup.
We have a small community on Telegram.
Side quests aside, this post is about my streaming setup.
The setup!
- Android Phone
- Linux Laptop/Windows(Hopefully Mac does too)
- IP webcam
- ADB installed.
- OBS for streaming.
- Stream destination(Youtube/Peertube/Twitch)
- Tripod
- Audio, either use a mic or just the sounds from the environment.
I like keeping things simple, yes this doesn't auto-track your speaker walking but that's okay!
This is how it all looks when it's setup.
The way I've setup this is from a reddit post that said that if you have adb installed you can do something like this once you have IP webcam on.
adb forward tcp:8081 tcp:8080
This eliminates the need for having your mobile connected to any network.
But how does this work?
It's dead simple, first we start the IP webcam, then we do a adb port-forward. This sets up the android phone.
Next, we do a very simple thing, in OBS we can add this as a media source, give the IP http://localhost:8081/video
Once we have the media source, the next thing is to add the slides.
This part is challenging, if your speaker has a way to connect directly with you via things like Zoom, Google Meet, this is the simplest way to do things.
In the end you have a simple setup that can help you get started streaming.
This setup is also handy if you have a bad webcam or your laptop webcam doesn't look good, most android phones are capable of better image quality.
While this setup is a bit janky it does the job.
Until next time!
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