Just a small update to report we have demonstrated now the ability to do a live relay on TIBtv https://tv.theindiebeat.fm of three Owncast instances without any major issues:
- Live - https://live.theindiebeat.fm for our own NHAM Live hosted events
- Gravitons - https://stream.gravitons.org for #fediwave 3rd w3dn3sday events
- Bonkwave - https://party.bonkwave.org for release party
Live looked the best because live.theindiebeat.fm and tv.theindiebeat.fm occupy the same network space at Hetzner.
We can do any Owncast and theoretically any HLS stream. I’ve tested locally using a bunch of random live Owncast bcasts from https://owncast.directory but no other HLS sources – if someone can suggest a non-Owncast HLS, I’d give it a test.
Point being: we can relay music events where appropriate and desirable, with chat on, and with https://smol.stream/ emoji wall when wanted.
My hope is we can orchestrate an in person live event from someone’s show someday. I haven’t talked to the team about this but it is a hope that I have.
The configuration is like:
artist OBS → live.theindiebeat.fm → HLS → liquidsoap → tv.theindiebeat.fm
or
pre-recorded video → party.bonkwave.org → HLS → liquidsoap → tv.theindiebeat.fm
The nice thing about doing this is the built in audience for TIBtv. We have 900+ followers and routinely 10-20 viewers. When doing a relay, we can typically have a scrolling text appear on the bottom the screen indicating it is a live simulcast and viewer should go to XYZ server to chat.