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Leon Nunes
Leon Nunes

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Streaming made simple

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.

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.

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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
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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

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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.

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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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