====== The IRL Dashboard ======

A single-screen control panel for IRL streaming that runs **on the router in your backpack**. It handles SRTLA modem bonding, cameras, the Director Mini, publishing, GPS, weather, chat and a live-overlay designer, all from one page you can pull up on your phone mid-stream. It works without a laptop and keeps working on cellular.

It is built for the **GL.iNet Mudi 7 (GL-E5800)**. The dashboard runs on any OpenWRT or GL.iNet router, but the bonding sender is built for the Mudi 7.

===== Getting it =====

The dashboard is **invite only**. Each invitation is personal and allows a limited number of installs, and your invite page shows the exact details you need. To ask for one, see the [[https://streamhelpers.com/irl-dashboard/|IRL Dashboard page]]. The invitation address is only for invitations: questions go to the [[community:start|community]].

==== Install from the router's dashboard ====

No terminal needed — it all happens in the router's own admin page.

If the router offers a firmware update, install that first and let it reboot before you start.

  - On the router's Wi-Fi, open ''<nowiki>http://192.168.8.1</nowiki>'' and sign in.
  - Go to **APPLICATIONS → Plug-ins**, then open **Manage Sources** (also called //Add Custom Software Source//).
  - Enter the name ''streamhelpers'' and the address on your invite page (it looks like ''<nowiki>https://streamhelpers.com/irl-dashboard/feed/YOUR-TOKEN</nowiki>''), then press the **+** (plus) button and **Save**.
  - Back on **Plug-ins**, press **Update** (or //Refresh//) to reload the list, search for ''streamhelpers-dashboard'' and press **Install**. It will quickly say //Installation succeeded//, but the dashboard keeps setting itself up in the background — **wait a few minutes** (the first install can take up to about 5 minutes).
  - Open ''<nowiki>http://streamhelpers.lan/</nowiki>'' or ''<nowiki>http://192.168.8.1/streaming/</nowiki>''.

The custom source carries your personal invite token. The same link also works again if you ever need to reinstall, and the dashboard **rebuilds itself after a router firmware upgrade** — see [[dashboard:recovery|when an update or a router goes wrong]].

==== Having trouble, or prefer the command line? ====

If the firmware refuses the source with a //signature// error, turn off the signature check for custom sources in Plug-ins if that option is shown — or just use the one-line command instead: SSH into the router and paste the ''wget … | sh'' command from your invite page. It installs exactly the same thing.

After the install, wait a couple of minutes, then open ''<nowiki>http://streamhelpers.lan/</nowiki>'' (or ''<nowiki>http://YOUR-ROUTER-IP/streaming/</nowiki>''). If it doesn't load on the first try, give it another minute and refresh — that's normal on the first install. The first visit opens **Set up your stream**, a short guided setup; after that, **Settings** holds everything. Fill in what you use and press **Save**. Every setting is optional: a tab you leave unconfigured simply doesn't appear.

===== The tabs =====

The tabs are icons along the top; hold a finger or the mouse on one to see its name. Most carry a small coloured dot (green is fine, amber wants a look, red needs you) and some a live figure. **A tab only appears once the thing it controls is set up in Settings**, so your row may be much shorter than this list.

^ Tab ^ What it is for ^ Guide ^
| **Stream status** (play) | The guided start and stop screen. It checks each part of the path, says what needs attention, and resets things for the next stream. **Stop stream** ends the stream everywhere and saves a record of it to **Past streams**. | [[dashboard:go-live|Going live]] |
| **Macros** (lightning bolt) | Quick commands for the busy moments, by tap, typing or voice: hide every overlay and bring them back, BRB and back, play a clip, time the line you are in, start and stop a poll, a closest guess or the emoji meter, with the results big the moment you stop. Your own macros too. The Companion app has the same on its **Quick commands** screen. | [[dashboard:macros|Macros and Quick commands]] |
| **Chat** (speech bubble) | Pro Chat: every platform's chat in one list, to read while live. Feature a message on stream, chat alerts, and the **Look** button. The tab appears once **Pro multi-platform chat** is on in Settings. | [[dashboard:premium-chat|Pro Chat]] |
| **Overlay control** (layers) | Every overlay on one page: switch each on or off while live, copy its browser-source address, design your own. | [[dashboard:overlay-control|Overlay control]], [[dashboard:overlays|overlay reference]] |
| **OBS** (sliders) | Scenes, audio, sources and start/stop in OBS Studio, when OBS is part of your setup. | [[dashboard:publishing|Publishing]] |
| **Router** (network) | Connections, signal, cell scanning and band locking, and venue Wi-Fi. | [[dashboard:router-and-bonding|Router and bonding]] |
| **Bonding** (merging arrows) | SRTLA bonding of every modem, tethered phone and Wi-Fi uplink, link by link. The far end is your [[receiver:start|receiver]]. With bonding switched off in Settings the same icon is **Stream Input**, which just lists the addresses your camera can publish to. | [[dashboard:router-and-bonding|Router and bonding]] |
| **Director Mini** (clapperboard) | A Magewell Director Mini: Program preview, scenes, graphics, stream targets, temperature and battery. | [[dashboard:cameras|Cameras]] |
| **Companion** (Android) | Phones as cameras, a director that mixes the show, extra bonded links and GPS. | [[companion:help|Companion app help]] |
| **DJI**, **SJCAM**, **Phone** (camera icons) | Connect and control the camera you have, or stream from a phone app straight into the router. | [[dashboard:cameras|Cameras]] |
| **Restreamer** (diagram) | Your own receiver's Restreamer: destinations, their health, live ingest figures and the preview. | [[dashboard:publishing|Publishing]] |
| **Restream.io** (share) | Go live through Restream.io, and its audience numbers (viewers now, peak, views, chat) for you, the header and an overlay. | [[dashboard:publishing|Publishing]] |
| (your own label) | An optional extra tab that shows a page of your choice. | [[dashboard:cameras|Cameras]] |
| **GPS** (pin) | Position from a USB GPS, the router or a phone; map, track, distance, sending your position, the location overlays and, with Pro, Motion & g-force. | [[dashboard:gps-and-weather|GPS and weather]] |
| **Weather**, **Clock**, **Timer** | Conditions and forecast, the time, and countdown or count-up timers, each with its overlay. | [[dashboard:gps-and-weather|GPS and weather]] |
| **Theme parks** (ticket) | Live ride wait times, show times and dining for the park you are in. | [[dashboard:gps-and-weather|GPS and weather]] |
| **Trivia**, **Polls**, **Jokes** | Audience games played in chat: AI-written trivia, polls, a //closest guess// game, an emoji applause meter, jokes, and //What am I looking at?//, which asks your AI about what the camera sees. | [[dashboard:audience-games|Audience games]] |
| **Links** (chain) | Your own one-tap buttons. | [[dashboard:settings|Settings]] |
| **Diagnostics** (stethoscope) | What the router sees, logs and checks, and **Ask AI** to explain a problem. | [[dashboard:diagnostics|Diagnostics]] |
| **StreamHelpers Pro** (crown) | Pair this router with your Pro account. | [[pro:start|StreamHelpers Pro]] |
| **Settings** (gear) | Everything you set up once, the setup guide, system update and backups. | [[dashboard:settings|Settings]] |

Across the top of every tab is the **header**: a row of small chips you choose (bonding bitrate, battery, viewers, alerts and many more). See [[dashboard:header|The header]].

**Why two publishing tabs?** Restreamer is your own media server; Restream.io is a separate hosted distribution service. They can work together, but neither is always required. See [[dashboard:restreamer-vs-restream-io|Restreamer vs Restream.io: do I need both?]].

A word with a dotted underline explains itself: tap it, or rest the mouse on it, for a short note on what it means (RSRP, SRT, HEVC, bitrate and so on), and tap again or anywhere else to close it.

Each tab is a list of cards. The first time you open a tab on a phone or computer, its cards are folded to their titles, so the whole tab fits on the screen and the titles work as a menu; most titles carry a small coloured pill that says how that part is doing. Tap a title to open it. The dashboard remembers what you open and fold, tab by tab, on that device. A few cards start open because they answer the main question at a glance: the Router tab's **WiFi, repeater & radios** box and the Bonding tab's health card (both can be folded), and the DJI tab's Bluetooth control and the Go Live card with **Stop stream** (always open).

===== StreamHelpers Pro =====

The dashboard is free. **StreamHelpers Pro** is an optional subscription that adds Pro Chat, the public Live Map, overlays without the StreamHelpers.com mark, Motion & g-force, and the Companion's Pro layouts and talkback. See [[pro:start|StreamHelpers Pro]] and [[pro:features|what each Pro feature does]].

===== Keeping it running =====

  * [[dashboard:updating|Updating the dashboard]]: the dashboard tells you when a new version is out
  * [[dashboard:security|Keeping your rig secure]]
  * [[dashboard:recovery|When an update or a router goes wrong]]
  * [[dashboard:release-history|Release history]]